Category archives: Foreign

By He Yin, People’s Daily Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10. This will be the first visit to Europe by China’s head of state in nearly five years. Against the backdrop of intensifying global turbulence, the China-EU relationship holds strategic significance and global […]

By Liu Shiyao, Gu Yekai, People’s Daily At 8:59 p.m. (Beijing Time) on April 25, China’s Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. About 10 minutes after the launch, the Shenzhou-18 spaceship separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit, marking […]

By Yin Xiaoyu, People’s Daily The spring sowing season has arrived, but in the sprawling wheat fields in Lujia township, Kunshan, east China’s Jiangsu province, there wasn’t a farmer in sight across the vast expanse. What could be seen was only a drone hovering above the fields. “This is an unmanned farm. It spans 3,840 […]

By Wang Haonan, People’s Daily The 2024 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) will be held in Beijing from April 25 to 29. Themed “Innovation: Building a Better World,” this year’s edition will comprise five major sections, including forums and meetings, technology trading, unveiling of achievements, and competitions in cutting-edge fields. Up to 120 events are planned […]

By Li Jie, People’s Daily China recently pledged a new round of large-scale equipment upgrades and trade-in of consumer goods in an action plan released by the State Council. The action plan specifies tasks in four sectors, namely equipment renewal, consumer goods trade-in, used goods recycling, and standard leveling-up. Equipment upgrades enjoy enormous market potential. […]

By Jiang Feng, Wang Xinyue, People’s Daily Located at the junction of the Belt and Road and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Chongqing municipality is a key strategic fulcrum for the development of China’s western region. The China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereafter referred to as “Chongqing FTZ”) was established in 2017. Despite occupying […]

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily For no good reasons, the United States recently launched a Section 301 investigation into China’s maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors, and groundlessly accused China of the so-called “unfair practices,” threatening to impose new restrictions including raising the tariff rates for both steel imports and aluminum imports from China. Such unilateral […]

By Wu Yuehui, People’s Daily The first complete high-definition lunar geologic atlas in the world was released in Beijing on April 21. The atlas was drawn by a Chinese scientific research team mainly based on scientific exploration data from the Chang’e Project. With a scale of 1:2.5 million, it is the world’s most precise geological […]

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 […]

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 […]