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East Asia
China’s soaring demand for fruit benefits foreign fruit farmers
The volume of avocados being imported has grown by nearly ten thousand times in just a few years in China, while pricey imported cherries are jokingly regarded as a new criterion for a person’s financial status by Chinese netizens. Moreover, some Chinese people are even flying to Thailand or Malaysia…
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Italy hails BRI MOU, expects tangible results
Italian scholars, government organizations and business community applauded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly advance the construction of the Belt and Road signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the country. Xi’s state visit to Italy culminated on March 23 with the signing of the inter-governmental MOU.…
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Italy return 796 cultural relics back to China
It seems that China and Italy, two countries with the largest number of world heritage sites, are constantly holding cultural exchange activities. Witnessed by visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities of Italy and the Minister of Culture and…
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Italy, Monaco, and France see deeper cooperation with China
The ongoing three-nation visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, his first overseas visit in 2019, will bring new momentum to China-Europe relations. As the world’s largest developing country and the largest national union, China and the European Union (EU) are important forces in the international community to boost economic development…
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Charles-Edouard Bouée: China has entered a new era of opening-up under new Foreign Investment Law
The 2019 China Development Forum (CDF) initiated by the Development Research Center of The State Council kicked off on March 23 in Beijing, under the theme of “Greater Opening-up for Win-Win Cooperation”. People’s Daily Online held an exclusive interview with Charles-Édouard Bouée, global CEO of international consulting firm Roland Berger…
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Xi’s visit ushers in new chapter of China-Italy ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Italy from Mar. 21 to 24. The visit bore huge significance as this year marks the 15th anniversary of the China-Italy comprehensive strategic partnership. Xi held talks with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and attended…
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Commentary: Xi’s European trip endows pragmatic cooperation with new connotation
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing state visits to Italy, Monaco, and France will build new hope, forge new highlights and endow new connotation for pragmatic cooperation between China and the three countries. The decision to deepen cooperation came at the right time as the spring heralds the best time of…
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China, Europe see closer economic, trade ties
China and Europe, both pulling great efforts on cooperation with each other, have been experiencing increasingly closer economic and trade ties over the past years. Thanks to the CHINA RAILWAY Express (Chinese block trains traveling to and from Europe), it only took 10 days for the four aircraft produced by…
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Belt and Road Initiative broadly reputed for a reason
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by China has enjoyed energetic development and made remarkable achievements since it was proposed 5 years ago, winning wide reputation from the international society and expanding the “circle of friends”. More and more developed countries from the western world have expressed their interests…
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China’s online retail sales top the world for 6th year
China’s online retail sales exceeded 9 trillion yuan in 2018, topping the world for the 6th year in a row, spokesperson Gao Feng said during a regular conference of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on March 21. The country’s online retail sales maintained a high-speed growth over the past ten-plus…
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