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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Online Tree-planting Campaign Popular in China

March 11, 2019

More and more Chinese citizens are contributing to China’s forestation efforts with the help of online platforms, as the country hastens its steps to green its land and seek environment-friendly development. Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei province, has been encouraging voluntary forestation for years. It makes creative attempts by organizing tree-planting campaigns under […]

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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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Xi-Trump consensus guides China, US toward win-win agreements

March 6, 2019

By Zhong Sheng Chinese and U.S. negotiators wrapped up the 7th round of trade talks between the world’s top two economies on Sunday with substantial progress on specific issues. The Chinese team is headed by Liu He, special envoy of President Xi Jinping, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice […]

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China contributes most to global greenery expansion

March 4, 2019

By Gu Zhongyang, People’s Daily China is the source of a quarter of global increase in green leaf area between 2000 and 2017, ranking the first in the world regarding the contribution rate, said a recent study by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In recent 20 years, China’s forest area and stock […]

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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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The world needs bridges, not ditches

February 25, 2019

By Doris and John Naisbitt (File photo of Doris and John Naisbitt) Shutting down versus opening-up Leadership for more than 200 years was the claim of the western world, led by the United States: militarily, economically, technologically, and morally. That leadership has been undermined by President Donald Trump’s segregate and erratic politics and stagnation in […]

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