China, United States should be partners rather than rivals

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 26 met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Expounding on the lessons from the 45 years of development in China-U.S. relations, Xi said building a community with a shared future for mankind is the […]

Digitalization gives leg up to Chongqing’s urban management

By Shen Jingran, People’s Daily Chongqing municipality in southwest China, a city located on hills, is the largest city in China by both total area and population. With complex landforms and plenty of bridges and tunnels built on and in the hills, the city is confronted with tricky challenges in urban management such as frequent […]

Xi’s visits to European countries promote healthy, stable China-EU relations

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 […]

China’s Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship successfully launched

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 […]

Farm without farmers: a peek into unmanned farm in E China’s Jiangsu province

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 […]

2024 Zhongguancun Forum to be hosted in Beijing

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 […]

Equipment upgrades expected to create 5-trillion-yuan market in China

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. […]

China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone supports Chongqing in building hub for inland opening-up

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 […]

U.S.’ latest Section 301 investigation a repeated mistake

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 […]

China releases world’s first high-definition lunar geologic atlas

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 […]