By Qiao Xuefeng, People’s DailyChina’s high-speed trains set another new record!On April 21, two new Fuxing bullet trains for testing independently developed by China passed by each other at a relative speed of 870 km/h, with each of them running at 435 km/h along a section of the high-speed rail li

By Chen Yuanyuan, People’s DailyAs audio books, podcasts, apps that provide audio content, as well as other new business models have sprung up in China, readers have embraced more possibilities. Many Chinese people now read books, take classes, enjoy TV series and socialize with the help of audio pr

By Chen Anying, professor at Tsinghua UniversityChina’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and five other departments recently issued a guideline on promoting the development of cultural industries in a bid to advance rural vitalization, with traditional handcrafts listed as one of the seven key fields

By Cheng Yuanzhou, People's DailyProminent phased progress has been achieved in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area five years after the construction of the megalopolis started.A number of policies have been rolled out and a series of infrastructure projects implemented in the Greater Bay

By Xu Peiyu, People's DailyChina's GDP hit 27.02 trillion yuan in the first three months this year, up 4.8 percent from a year ago and 1.3 percent from the last quarter of 2021, according to a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on April 18.The value-added output of the pri

By Yu Jianbin, People’s DailyThe in-orbit construction of China’s space station is expected to be completed this year, during which the country plans to carry out six launch missions, according to a press conference on the latest developments in China’s space station construction held on April 17.On

By Wang Yulin, People’s DailyOperating system used to remain a challenge for many industries.For instance, financial institutions need their operating system to be extremely reliable as they have to deal with a huge user base and complicated business forms.The power industry, which sees a broad geog

By Wang Xinyue, People’s DailyAfter taking a 91-meter-long escalator into the water, crossing a 146-meter-long horizontal corridor, and walking into a viewing gallery which is 40 meters below the surface of the Yangtze River, visitors find themselves at the Baiheliang Underwater Museum (or the Under

By Yu Jianbin, People’s DailyThree Chinese astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu completed their six-month “business trip” to space and returned to Earth on April 16, wrapping up the longest crewed mission to space in China’s aerospace history. F

By Kong Dechen, People's DailyChina's gross ocean product rose 8.3 percent to nearly 9.04 trillion yuan (about $1.42 trillion) in 2021, the first time the figure has crossed the 9-trillion-yuan mark, said a statistical communiqué recently released by the country's Ministry of Natural Resources.Accor

By Zhang Jiahui, People’s DailyChina’s wind power industry has registered rapid growth in recent years. In 2021, China’s newly installed capacity of grid-connected wind power reached 47.57 million kilowatts, with offshore wind power accounting for over one third. The installed wind power capacity of

By Song Yiran, People’s DailyTo break local protection and facilitate the smooth flow of economic circulation, China on April 10th issued guidelines on building a unified national market at a faster pace.The guidelines will help promote the smooth flow of goods, factors, and resources on a wider sca

By Wu Yuehui, People’s DailyChinese scientists found new use of carbon dioxide following the success of synthesizing starch from carbon dioxide last September, the first of its kind globally.The newly completed study has shown that through the combination of electro catalysis and biosynthesis, carbo

By Gu Yekai, People’s DailyThe high-precision positioning and timing services of China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), a global navigation system independently designed and developed by China as well as one of the four major global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), had been used over

By Wu Yue, People’s DailyIn recent years, more and more graduate schools in China have sent their students to stay for a long period of time at the “science and technology backyards” in the front line of agricultural production in rural areas so that they can study and work out solutions to the prac

By Xu Jingeng, Li Rui, People’s DailyLi Ruitian, who works for a demonstration base of modern agricultural experiment on saline-alkali soil in the Yellow River Delta in east China’s Shandong province, squatted down to check on the growth of crops in a vast expanse of green farmlands as lush crops sw

By Luo Shanshan, People's DailyTwenty-seven more cities and regions in China were recently approved by the State Council to set up cross-border e-commerce pilot zones. It brought the overall tally of the pilot zones to 132, which cover foreign trade powerhouses and municipalities, as well as cities

By Wang Jintao, People's DailyAfter lunch, Zhao Xuecheng sneaked a break and picked up a book about the prevention of plant diseases and insect pests for vegetables.Reading or borrowing books from the local rural library, or farmers' book house, has become habitual for the 53-year-old farmer from Ga

By Xu Peiyu, People’s DailyOn April 1, a commercial nuclear heating project launched by the State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC) overfulfilled the task of ensuring heating for urban residents of Haiyang, a county-level city in east China’s Shandong province, during the first heating sea

By Xu Peiyu, People’s DailyA technology company headquartered in Suzhou city, east China’s Jiangsu province, lately rolled out a platform for the application of the country’s digital fiat currency, or the e-CNY, through which it achieved integrated management of its corporate wallet and realized int