Category archives: Foreign

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 […]

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 […]