Category archives: Foreign

By Qiu Chaoyi, Li Xinping, Han Xin, People’s Daily The Spring Festival travel rush, carrying people’s hopes for family reunion, reflects the new landscape of China’s high-quality development. During the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, which ran from Feb. 10 to 17, China reported about 2.3 billion trips in varied modes of transport. In particular, the […]

By Li Kaixuan, People’s Daily In a workshop of Zigong Longteng Culture and Art Co., Ltd. based in Zigong, southwest China’s Sichuan province, the skeleton of a loong-shaped lantern was completed amid flying sparks from welding. Loong, or Chinese dragon, the fifth sign in the traditional Chinese zodiac animal cycle, represents a totem of the […]

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense once again used “national security” as an excuse to include some Chinese chip and artificial intelligence (AI) companies on its discriminatory lists, and threatened to take further measures against these entities. The U.S. side consistently invokes “national security,” overstretches the concept of national security, […]

By Yin BoThe Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation.In the long agrarian civilization, the ancient Chinese people marked a year from the sowing of seeds to the harvest of grains, and this agricultural cycle has set the rhythm of people’s lives – growing crops in spring, seeing them mature in […]

By Guan Kejiang, People’s Daily Newly installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is expected to reach 375 gigawatts globally in 2023, growing 31.8 percent year on year, said an annual report recently issued by the International Energy Agency. China’s solar PV installations last year equaled to the world’s total in 2022. Demetrios Papathanasiou, global director for […]

By Zhu Jinyi As the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, offers an abundance of customs and rituals, making it a perfect time for a cultural trip. Dai Bin, president of the China Tourism Academy, estimated that the Spring Festival holiday in 2024 […]

By Ding Yiting, People’s Daily In the city of Shannan, located on a plateau at an elevation of 4,994 to 5,100 meters in southwest China’s Xizang autonomous region, nearly 80,000 solar panels were glistening under the sunlight. This solar farm was connected to the grid and started generating electricity on Dec. 30, 2023. It is […]

By Yang Junfeng In the frozen mountains, heavy-duty drones are commissioned to clear the ice off high-voltage lines in the sky. Across vast stretches of cotton fields, agricultural drones are deployed methodically to gather real-time data on soil and crops, aiding farmers in precision farming. Amidst the chaos of a fire, firefighting drones spray high-pressure […]

By Su Di Chinese President Xi Jinping visited primary-level officials and residents in Tianjin ahead of the Spring Festival. He said that everyone should have confidence in the coming year and live a better life. Xi’s sincere words and care inspired hundreds of millions of people to embrace a better tomorrow in the new journey […]

By Ye Ban The 78th UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution by consensus to list the Lunar New Year, known as Spring Festival in China, as a UN floating holiday. It’s another example of the increasing international appeal of the Spring Festival, showcasing once again the influence of Chinese culture. The festival, born in […]