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Information Office of Beijing Municipal Government
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - China announced the ending of absolute poverty in 2020. But the country isn't celebrating yet. This short documentary tries to reveal stories of thousands of so-called "poverty fighters" in China's poorest villages. Zuoquan, in northern China's Shanxi Province, was once a national-level poverty-stricken county. In 2014, the county launched a ...
Beijing (ots) - The focus on getting rid of poverty in China's southern Yunnan Province in 2020 has meant making sure everyone in the region is living above the poverty line. And people like Fan Lifang and Li Shuliang have literally gone from surviving to actually making a living with the help of the government. The local government is now cooperating with businesses ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - How do modern Chinese urban residents pay their utility bills? Most remember using prepaid electricity meter cards for years. Technology advances have brought profound changes to Chinese lifestyles. This episode of KYO TALK focuses on the topic of e-payments. One day, KYOSEI, a Japanese resident who has lived in China for years, found his ...
Chongqing International Communication Center
Beijing, China (ots) - As environmental protection has become a prominent issue related to people's livelihood, the mission of environmental restoration has entered a new era. This objective is exemplified by the Chongqing Fengdu County section of the Loong River, which has been listed among the first batch of 17 national demonstration areas for lakes and rivers. What ...
Beijing (ots) - "When raising cattle, first you need to like them." "If you don't want to be poor, you cannot just rely on physical work. You need to use your mind and explore the cattle-raising skills." Yu Chenglin is a herder who lives in the prairie of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Yu was quite poor twenty years before he decided to raise cattle to make a ...
Beijing (ots) - Liang Lin is a millennial civil servant working for the poverty-reduction program in Minqiang Village of Shizhong Town in Jiangyan City, Sichuan Province. Every day, Liang rides her scooter to travel the six-kilometer distance between the village and the town. Over the past two years, Liang has been ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Nearing the end of 2020, an eventful year for most, China International Publishing Group (CIPG) hosts the My China Story award ceremony for excellent films created by foreigners both abroad and living in China. Content creators from around the world document their lives and experiences in China through filming short videos. The event begins ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - China and India are both ancient civilizations with splendid history and culture as well as friendly neighbors connected by mountains and rivers. The people of the two countries have, across many years and long distances, become a historic model of cultural exchanges for the world. The "Beautiful India Beautiful China" online photo ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - As Pan Qingqing sips on a traditional Chinese tea, she glances out the window of her mountaintop guesthouse. The view is splendid with billowing clouds and valleys, and this is swiftly followed by laughter and loud chatter in the guesthouse where she is right in the middle of a jovial conversation with her guests who have made the trip to the ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - In November of each year, China hosts the world's biggest sales bonanza as the country's Singles Day shopping festival sets off a frenzy of online shopping on 11th. And millions of parcel orders are delivered to Chinese consumers. But for China's express delivery companies, this is the ultimate test in the whole year. According to the Post ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - MWC Shanghai 2021 runs from 23 to 25 February exploring how technology and connectivity can lead the global recovery The GSMA has announced initial details of MWC Shanghai, making a grand return as a physical experience for 2021. Scheduled for 23 to 25 February 2021 and taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), it will be one of the largest and most anticipated events ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - American environmentalist, Lester Russell Brown, in the 1990s wrote a book, Who Will Feed China? where he conjectures that the Chinese might create a food crisis for the world. But fortunately, China has a per-capita grain supply of 470 kg, which is higher than the global average. Hybrid rice, whose output can be 10-20 percent higher than that of normal rice, has contributed handsomely to ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - When comes to a Chinese city that resembles Boston, quite a few netizens would name Tianjin, a city blending modern vibe with traditional heritage. Ranked the third largest urban land area after Beijing and Shanghai, Tianjin created a uniquely compatible urban style, Chinese and Western, ancient and modern, making the best use of its 600 ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Unlike typical household supplies featuring wooden furniture and adobe stove in Chinese villages in the past, Xiaowupu, or "little five villages" in northern China's Tianjin brings in Ikea style to its hostels to attract tourists. This rural area consisting of five villages is located in Beichen district and selected for a modern tourism project in the port city. In these villages, modern ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - From exercise, mobile payment and to seeing a doctor online, consumers have become overwhelmed by a one-screen-and-one-click lifestyle. In Tianjin Binhai New Area, a subordinate city in the town has been trying to make everything intelligent living here. Obtaining sports data from a smart runaway, charging mobile phones from a solar bench, or ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Along China's northeastern coast of Bohai Sea stretched a strip of saline-alkali soil back in 1980s. It could barely afford any arable fields for plants and crops. In 1994, Binhai New Area of Tianjin was established by the coast as a greening and eco-restoration project just rolled out in the region. After over 20 years' efforts, a ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Sudeshnar Sarkar, an editorial consultant with Beijing Review, came to know about Laiyuan, located in the city of Baoding in Hebei, the province adjoining Beijing, only at the fag-end of her decade-long stay in China. It is there that an experiment in education started, an initiative that is probably to rural education in China what the reform ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Hiroto Kawasaki is a 74-year-old Japanese agricultural expert working in Xiaoliugu Village, Xinxiang City, Henan Province in central China. In 2009 when he visited rural areas during an exchange at Qingdao Agricultural University, he found that the agricultural development there relied heavily on chemical fertilizers. This experience inspired ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Hiroto Kawasaki is a 74-year-old Japanese agricultural expert working in Xiaoliugu Village, Xinxiang City, Henan Province in central China. In 2009 when he visited rural areas during an exchange at Qingdao Agricultural University, he found that the agricultural development there relied heavily on chemical fertilizers. This experience inspired ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Phuntsog Gyatso, 33, seldom left his village in Sangri County, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the first 30 years of his life. Both his mother and brother have disabilities. And as the only bread earner in the family, Phuntsog Gyatso had to take care of the family and the highland barley fields all by himself. His village was located on top of a ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Phuntsog Gyatso, 33, seldom left his village in Sangri County, Tibet Autonomous Region, in the first 30 years of his life. Both his mother and brother have disabilities. And as the only bread earner in the family, Phuntsog Gyatso had to take care of the family and the highland barley fields all by himself. His village was located on top of a ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - In the process of coordinating epidemic prevention and control and promoting economic development, China is now facing greater employment pressure. This year, there are about 15 million new entrants to the workforce, including 7.49 million college graduates and about three million surplus rural laborers. The pressure caused by the total ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Since the launch of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, China has seen a sharp decline in the population living in poverty alongside impressive economic growth. According to the World Bank's poverty standard of US$1 per day, more than 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty over the past four decades. China is the first country in the world to achieve the poverty ...