China

China ushers in a new era of mass tourism

March 14, 2019

By Shang Kaiyuan from People’s Daily Last year, Chinese made more than 5.5 billion domestic trips, with an average of four trips per person, which suggests that China has entered the era of mass tourism, said the country’s minister of tourism and culture Luo Shugang. Luo made the remarks during a passage interview on the […]

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E-commerce contributes to income growth of Chinese farmers

March 14, 2019

By Xu Qing and Zhang Jinruo from People’s Daily E-commerce is helping Chinese farmers improve their income, and the Chinese online shopping site Taobao under e-commerce giant Alibaba has set a great example in this regard by helping farmers build unique brands of agricultural products. Shen Zhubing, a farmer who has 0.33 hectare of millet […]

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China to run driverless maglev train at 200 kph in 2020

March 8, 2019

By Wang Hailin from People’s Daily China will roll off its first self-developed driverless commercial maglev train with a designed speed of 200 km per hour in early 2020, said Zhou Qinghe, chairman of CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd, developer of the train. The new train, known as the commercial maglev 3.0, will be the […]

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Reform and opening-up shows bright prospect of development to world

March 1, 2019

By Karunasena Kodituwakku At the end of the 1970s, I learned from many Chinese friends that Chinese people were not affluent then, and that bicycle was the main means of transportaion. But when I visited China in 2015, I saw skyscrapers, busy cars, and people in fashionable clothes. What China has achieved in the past […]

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Carry forward the cause of “Icebreakers” from generation to generation      

February 18, 2019

As I walked into the Great Hall to meet President Xi in October 2018, many memories of my father in the early 1950s mixed with deep impressions of Chinese history and the great significance of the man I was about to meet. As I left with our group, I looked at my daughter and son […]

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Foreign diplomats discover a true Xinjiang, different from Western media reports

January 21, 2019

Source: Global Times Diplomats from 12 countries who were invited to visit Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and its vocational training and education centers said that what they saw during the visit was opposite to some Western media reports, and Xinjiang is seeking an effective way to counter extremism and terrorism. At the invitation […]

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Reform and opening up brings a great progress for China

January 16, 2019

By J. Stapleton Roy I worked for the United States Liaison Office in China in 1978. From July of the same year, we started secret negotiations with the Chinese side on the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations. After the Communist Party of China announced to convene the third plenary session of its eleventh Central Committee, […]

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