By Chang Qin, People's DailyIt's freezing cold outside in winter, but inside a "plant factory" of an agricultural tech firm in Beijing, it's as warm as spring.The "plant factory," which covers 100,000 square meters, looks just like a technology-based "tomato forest" where 39 varieties of tomatoes ar
By Kong Dechen, People's DailyChina delivered outstanding shipbuilding performance last year, with output, new, and holding orders accounting for 45.2 percent, 55.2 percent, and 49.0 percent of the world's total, respectively. All ranked first globally.Chinese shipbuilders received 55 orders for liq
By He Yin, People's DailyChinese President Xi Jinping recently met with Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Hun Sen at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.. The two leaders had in-depth exchanges on building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era and international
By Shen Jun, Yang Yi, People's DailyA devastating earthquake that recently took place in southern Türkiye and near-border regions in Syria has killed and injured lots of people in the two countries and leveled buildings.The Chinese government has launched an emergency humanitarian assistance mechani
By Li Zhen, People’s DailyChinese provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities recently released their 2023 government work reports as local "two sessions" were convened across the country.Apart from reporting their performance in the past year, they also unveiled roadmaps for their development
By Meng Haiying, Zheng Zhiwen, People's DailyHit by a heavy snow, Jingyuetan National Forest Park in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, recently put on a "white coat".As far as the eye can see, there were towering pines and cypresses and a lake covered by ice. Squirrels were sometimes seen
By He Yin, People's DailyAs international organizations and investment institutions lifted their forecast on China's economic growth this year, the international community has gained stronger confidence in the Chinese economy.There is an increasingly prevalent view that China will be a major driver
By Yuan Taoxiong, People's DailyDigital technology-assisted conservation of ancient city wall in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi province, was recently listed among the top-10 cases of digital innovation in the Chinese culture and tourism industry of 2022.Assisted by digital technologies, the ancie
By Gu Yekai, People's DailyAn artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputing center was recently launched in Ningbo National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, east China's Zhejiang province, which is able to perform at 100 Pflops in half-precision mode.In north China's Tianjin municipality, the firs
By Wu Qiuyu, People's DailyMobile payment now can still work when cellphone batteries is out-of-juice.Earlier this year, the application of China's digital fiat currency, or the e-CNY app, launched a new tap-and-go payment service enabling users to pay without limitations of phone batteries and inte
By Luo Shanshan, People's DailyJan. 1 this year marked the first anniversary of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Over the past year, China advanced high-quality implementation of this world's largest trade deal and the policy dividends of the deal kept releasing, which effecti
By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyThe current U.S. administration has been obsessed with building "small circles" around the world in an attempt to contain China, slow and even hinder China's development. The practices, including fueling group politics and provoking bloc confrontation, run against the t
By Ouyang Jie, People's DailyThe State Council of China recently allowed a further six cities to launch comprehensive pilot programs for opening up the service sector, including Shenyang, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, bringing the total number to 11.Following the pilot program's initial implementation in B
By Luo Shanshan, People's DailyChina's annual foreign trade value topped 40 trillion yuan (about 5.94 trillion U.S. dollars) for the first time in 2022, and the country maintained the world's largest trading nation in goods for six consecutive years.As the new year has arrived, foreign trade enterpr
By Yuan Quan, Chungda Drolkar, People's DailyChina's Tibet autonomous region has an average altitude of over 4,000 meters above sea level. The air oxygen content there is only 60 percent of that in lowland areas. However, the chilly climate and thin air can never defeat local people's love for socce
By Wang Zheng, People's DailyThe number of connections for cellular Internet of Things (IoT) services hit 1.84 billion in China as of the end of 2022, an increase of 447 million from a year ago, accounting for 70 percent of the world's total, according to statistics recently released by the Ministry
By Wang Junling, People's DailyThe Ministry of Commerce and the People's Bank of China recently jointly released a notice on further supporting foreign economic and trade enterprises in expanding the cross-border use of RMB to facilitate trade and investment. The notice made deployment in supporting
By Liu Shi'an, Xie Weiqun, Fang Min, People's DailyShanghai, a pioneer of China's reform and opening up that leads the trend of innovative development, has consistently optimized its business environment.Recently, the city issued a new version of an action plan, which marked the sixth consecutive ye
By Ouyang Jie, Luo Shanshan, People's DailyAs the new year begins, foreign enterprises are accelerating their development in the Chinese market.Recently, a global flexible packaging plant built by Amcor, a global leader in the packaging industry headquartered in Switzerland, was put into operation i
By Liu Zhiqiang, Qiu Chaoyi, People's DailyA rebound in travel and consumption during the 2023 Spring Festival illustrates the resilience of the Chinese economy. The 2023 Spring Festival was the first public holiday held since China downgraded its management of COVID-19 from Class A to Class B on Ja