Category archives: Foreign

By Zhao Juecheng, Fan Lingzhi, Global Times; Zhang Bolan, Xian Gan, People’s Daily A 17-hour flight from Athens, Greece, to Lhasa in China’s Xizang autonomous region- including a layover in Beijing – bridges five time zones. This journey from the Aegean Sea to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau spans a distance once unimaginable to ancient travelers. Yet […]

By Pan Junqiang, Li Jianguang, People’s Daily From Aug. 8 to 12, the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) was held in Beijing under the theme “Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Agents More Intelligent.” The event brought together over 200 robotics companies from around the world, presenting more than 1,500 exhibits and debuting over 100 new […]

By Shi Fang, People’s Daily On a recent afternoon at Kunming Changshui International Airport, southwest China’s Yunnan province, more than a dozen seniors disembarked to commence an eight-day “travel and stay” program from Kunming to Jianshui county in the province’s southeast. “This itinerary was first drafted last October. We revised it more than a dozen […]

By Yan Yu Young people are both major beneficiaries and vital drivers of cooperation among member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In recent years, leveraging the broad platform provided by the SCO, youth from member countries have actively engaged in cooperation, delivering fruitful outcomes in cultural exchanges, innovation and entrepreneurship, the digital economy, […]

By Yang Yi, People’s Daily A recent report jointly released by Singapore’s banking group DBS and market data and insights firm Cube projects that e-commerce sales in Southeast Asia will more than double from $184 billion in 2024 to $410 billion by 2030, representing a 14 percent compound annual growth rate over the period. As […]

By Sun Haitian, People’s Daily “Before coming here, I assumed Sanya was only about sunshine and beaches,” remarked Russian tourist Andrei. After spending a few days by the sea, his family headed to downtown Sanya, south China’s Hainan province, for some shopping. Inside a mall, a poster advertising duty-free shopping for offshore passengers caught his […]

By He Yi, People’s Daily In South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, communities are adapting China’s eco-village model to transform local resources into sustainable cultural and tourism offerings.  Uzbekistan’s Nukus region has implemented a Sino-Uzbek pilot project combining solar power with smart irrigation for cotton farming, restoring saline-alkali soil while increasing agricultural productivity. Peru’s Chancay Port […]

By Liao Ruiling On a quiet weekday afternoon in a Beijing coffee shop, customers savor their drinks, largely unaware of the extraordinary journey behind each bean. Shop owner Zhang Xue sources most of her coffee beans from Rwanda, where high altitudes and sharp day-night temperature differences create ideal conditions for cultivation. The region’s unique climate […]

By Li Junjie, People’s Daily In a workshop in Wuhu, east China’s Anhui province, rows of industrial robots stood in neat formation, their mechanical arms poised mid-air, awaiting final inspection before rolling off the production line. Nearby, workers moved with practiced rhythm – lifting, pairing, assembling – and with each passing hour, another robot was […]

By Wu Yuehui, People’s Daily A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang’e-6 mission from the moon’s far side have unveiled the volcanic activity, ancient magnetic field, water content and geochemical characteristics of the moon mantle, shedding the first light on the evolutionary history of its dark side. […]