Category archives: Foreign

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Peng Fei, People’s Daily In the eyes of many foreign companies, investing in China means investing in the future. A survey conducted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade showed that over 80 percent of surveyed foreign-invested enterprises rated China’s business environment in 2023 as “satisfactory” or above. In the annual […]

By Zhang Jinruo, People’s Daily The Wat Arun, a Buddhist temple by the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok, was crowded with sightseers, including Yu Fan, from east China’s Zhejiang province, who was looking for the best angle to take photographs, wearing a traditional Thai outfit with a matching Thai-style hair pin. She told People’s Daily that […]

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily In the past few months, China-U.S. relations have shown signs of stabilization under the strategic guidance of the consensus reached by Chinese and U.S. heads of state during their meeting in San Francisco. “Jointly promoting people-to-people exchanges” is an important part of the “San Francisco vision.” From the students of […]

By Liu Zhonghua, People’s Daily The number of German companies in Taicang, east China’s Jiangsu province reached 500 as Beumer Group settled there earlier this year. During the past three decades, Taicang has consistently seized business opportunities with the German companies based there and created an optimal business environment for them and its successes have […]

By Chang Qin, People’s Daily After sowing seeds in early April, farmer Wang Tousheng from Bizhou township, Suichuan county, east China’s Jiangxi province, would come to the paddy field every few days to check on the growth of the “space lotus”. “Space-traveled lotus seeds have unique qualities. With a yield of 1,000 kilograms and a […]

By Ji Juesu, People’s Daily In a plant of Shanghai Baosteel Packaging Co., Ltd. (Baosteel Packaging), machines were working on a beverage can production line, and the carbon consumption of each manufacturing process was shown in real time on a software on the computer of engineer Wang Zhiyou in an office building 15 kilometers away. […]

By He Yin, People’s Daily On the morning of April 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Beijing. This is Scholz’s second visit to China since he took office, and Scholz is the first leader of a major Western country to visit China this year. The two leaders exchanged views […]