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Stimulus package this time may prove different - October 16, 2024
The recent news conference of the National Development and Reform Commission affirmed that the Chinese government remains committed to achieving 5 percent growth this year, providing more financial support for low-income and vulnerable groups, and ensuring policy continuity between 2024 and 2025.
A new dimension - October 15, 2024
The paradox of globalization lies in the fact that time itself dictates the need to establish a modern system of international relations where issues arising at both the global and regional levels must be resolved collectively. However, with the shift from a bipolar to a multipolar world, which is characteristic of globalization, new challenges are emerging.
SCO and health diplomacy beyond borders - October 14, 2024
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has established itself as one of the most important regional organizations. Although the organization's primary focus has historically been on security and counter-terrorism, it has increasingly broadened its scope to encompass issues that transcend borders, including economic integration, technological innovation and more recently, health diplomacy.
How Beijing should address world's questions - October 13, 2024
The resolution of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which was held in July, has evoked a mixed response from the international community. While the wider world recognizes China's achievements, many still misunderstand and even distort the achievements of China.
Visa-free policy boosts tourists' footfalls - October 10, 2024
The remarkable surge in the number of foreign visitors to China over the past months shows the Chinese government's 144-hour visa-free transit policy for nationals of 54 countries is a brilliant move for several reasons. The introduction of this policy as a friendly way of opening up the country to the outside world has not only increased overseas tourists' footfalls in China but also given foreigners a wonderful opportunity to experience the country's rich culture and history.
Reform in new era an opportunity for world - October 09, 2024
The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in July adopted the "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization", which is a new blueprint for China's reform and opening-up. The resolution sends a strong message to the world that China remains committed to advancing reform and opening-up, and creating more opportunities for the world in the new era.
Security blanket - October 08, 2024
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an organization aimed at safeguarding regional development and security, faces both important opportunities and major challenges amid the stalling global economy and disorder in global governance.
75 years' progress vital for China and world - October 07, 2024
Recent years have seen some international pundits first claim the Chinese economy is a global inflation threat, and then allege it is a global deflation threat. When proved wrong, they claimed the Chinese economy would collapse amid its recovery.
Ethnic unity and progress get a boost - September 29, 2024
Fostering solidarity among the 56 ethnic groups of the country to maintain social harmony and realize collective progress is a key aspect of China's socioeconomic policies and cultural integration efforts. The strategy is in line with Chinese modernization, which is aimed at fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation among the different ethnic groups as well.
A killer that many people ignore - September 26, 2024
Some of the world's big challenges get a lot of attention. Climate change, wars and immigration are constantly in the news, and receive large funding from states and individual philanthropists. Other significant problems such as tuberculosis and malnutrition receive less airtime and people are less aware about them, but they count among major global priorities, with allocated funding.
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