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East Asia
Supply-side reform helps Chinese farmers locate target markets
Chinese farmers are using their wisdom and modern strategies to cater for the market, and such supply-side reform is helping them gaining more profits. Wu Kai, staff from a fruit company in east China’s Jiangxi province has greatly boosted the company’s navel orange sales thanks to the supply-side reform he…
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Number of Thangka painters boosted in Tibet amid governmental support to protect the ancient art
“From 300 to 3,000 (roughly), the rise in the number of Thangka painters in Tibet shows that religious art is thriving and a perfect example of the government’s support to Tibet culture,” Norbu Sitar, dean of the Tibet Thangka Painting Academy in Lhasa, said. A national-level cultural inheritor of Thangka…
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Final Consumption contributed 76.2 percent to China’s economic growth
The 6.6-percent economic growth China maintained last year was not an easy-won achievement especially given the fact that the country’s economy has been developing rapidly for 40 years since reform and opening up, said Yang Decai, director of the Department of Economics at Nanjing University. Yang, who is also a…
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Cutting-edge core technology can only be developed at home, university head says
Cutting-edge core technology should not be imported, but developed domestically, Shi Yigong, a well-known scientist and president of Westlake University, told reporters at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3. The aim of China’s first new type of private research university is to become a world-class…
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China sees greater demand for skilled workers amid economic transition
Skilled workers in China are taking pride in their professions as the world’s second-largest economy sees a huge demand for the high-quality workforce to help facilitate its transition. “All roads lead to Rome, and getting a college diploma is not the only way to success,” said Hu Ping, who won…
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China puts household farmers on road to modern agriculture
Chinese small agricultural households, the biggest part of the country’s agricultural population, are joining a national drive to pursue modernized agriculture, with the help of new technologies and better commercial services. The change comes as the accelerated pace of urbanization has resulted in a shift in the distribution of the…
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Valuable ancient painting to be staged in Palace Museum
China’s Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, will exhibit a series of famous cultural relics and fine collections, including one of the best-known ancient Chinese paintings, as it turns 600 years old next year, according to a two-year plan of the former imperial compound. To celebrate its 600th birthday,…
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Drones facilitate people’s lives in China
Several Chinese cities are using drones to monitor traffic, capturing traffic violations such as using mobile phones while driving and illegal parking. In February 2019, traffic management departments of Nanning, capital of southwestern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region handled 438 cases of illegal parking with the help of drones, according…
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Smart streetlights unveiled in Guangzhou
Thirty-five smart streetlights were unveiled in Guangzhou, capital of southern China’s Guangdong province, to promote the building of 5G smart cities, local media outlet Yangcheng Evening News reported on March 2. The smart streetlights can serve as video surveillance devices, telecommunication base stations, road signs and even as battery chargers.…
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Online Tree-planting Campaign Popular in China
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, the capital city of central China’s Hubei province, has been encouraging voluntary forestation for years. It makes creative…
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