Unmanned “plant factory”: production line of vegetables

By You Yi, People’s Daily Can plants grow without soil and sunshine? The answer might be found in a “plant factory” at the Chengdu National Agricultural Science and Technology Center in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province. In the plant factory, lettuce plants grow on multi-tier steel racks, bathing the red and blue rays emitted from […]

Digitalization drive helps advance modernization of social governance in Chongqing

By Li Zenghui, Jiang Feng, Chang Biluo, People’s Daily In the office building of the Chongqing Ecology and Environment Bureau, a water monitoring and control system flashed red, signaling excessive phosphorus concentration at a river section. By tracing data from the sensors network, the system narrowed down the investigation area and pinpointed several upstream industrial […]

China makes more efforts to recycle power batteries

By Qiang Yuwen, People’s Daily As one of the world’s largest power battery markets for eight consecutive years, China has established a power battery industrial system with the most extensive industrial and supply chains. Large-scale production comes with the challenge of managing decommissioned power batteries. Recently, People’s Daily reporters tracked a batch of retired batteries […]

EFCC, Yahaya Bello and a Complicit Media

By Dr Austin Maho Stories were abound all through last week how the spin doctors of Yahaya Bello allegedly moved tons of cash around some media houses to influence good conscience. It shouldnt surprise anyone therefore the amount of space devoted by some media organization to the Yahaya Bello and EFCC story. The substantive story […]

Alia Aircraft probe: Heads to roll in Benue APC 

as EFCC calls for State files from 1999 to date Indications have emerged that there is palpable tension among political leaders in Benue State, particularly, those of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC as the state governor Rev Hyacinth Alia, has discreetly launched a probe on a missing Aircraft belonging to the state government.  A […]

National policy on justice reform not negotiable, says AGF Fagbemi

By Kenneth Atavti The Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has declared that the justice sector under his watch would continue to push for mutuality in the formation and implementation of the national policy on justice reform in the country. Fagbemi, made the declaration at the 2024 National Judicial Summit on Justice Sector on Wednesday in […]

Bloc politics undermines peace, stability in South China Sea

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily The United States, Japan and the Philippines recently issued a so-called Joint Vision Statement in Washington, distorting facts and confusing right and wrong on the South China Sea issue, the East China Sea issue and the Taiwan question, and arbitrarily smearing and attacking China. This is completely against the public […]

Robust start of China’s economy boosts global economic prospects

By He Yin, People’s Daily China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year grew by 5.3 percent year-on-year, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the previous quarter, according to statistics released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics on April 16. The Chinese economy has kicked off a steady start […]

Exhibition on China-France exchanges in 17th, 18th centuries hosted at Palace Museum

By Zou Yating, People’s Daily An exhibition focusing on the exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th centuries recently kicked off in the Hall of Literary Glory (Wenhuadian) of the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China. The exhibition “The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges Between China and France […]

China’s hydrogen energy industry gains momentum for development

By Liu Yiqing, Shen Xiaoxiao, People’s Daily China’s first hydrogen-powered urban train recently completed a test at a speed of 160 km/h in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin province. The train, developed by China’s CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd., is equipped with a built-in hydrogen power system and an independently developed hydrogen-electric hybrid energy control […]