By Feature Editor Kim Hyung-daeThe Rural Development Administration (RDA) is celebrating its 61st anniversary this year. Launched on April 1, 1962, the year when the First Five-Year Plan for Economic Development began, the agency has served as the leader of Korea's agricultural revolution.It has tak

By Ouyang Jie, People's DailyThis year, the Chinese department store Intime released a calendar that made an impression.The calendar and its packaging were made of environment-friendly materials. Its stand and packing box were made of biodegradable kraft paper, and the calendar card can grow flowers

By Guan Kejiang, People's DailySaudi Arabia is the largest trading partner of China in the Middle East. Over the recent years, the two countries have witnessed increasingly frequent economic and trade exchanges as China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 achieved greater

By Wu Qiuyu, People's DailyAccording to annual reports of Chinese listed banks, greenness has become a defining character of the high-quality development of China's banking sector.Multiple banks have reported growing businesses of green credit, and their green financial products such as green bonds

By Du Haitao, Wang Ke, People's Daily"I knew there would be a lot of tourists, but I never expected so many," said Li Xin, who runs a B&B hotel near the Longmen Grottoes, a tourist site boasting a history of more than 1,500 years in Luoyang, central China's Henan province.According to Li, the hotel

Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang attended the Carbon-Free Energy Forum launching ceremony on May 17 at the Korea Press Center in Seoul and led discussions on carbon-free energy certification and Forum management directions.The minister stated in his opening message that “Re100” is

By Gu Yekai, Yuan Taoxiong, People's DailyIntellectual property (IP) is indispensable to innovative and high-quality development. Over the recent years, China has witnessed a rise in both the number and quality of valid invention patents, which indicates continuously strengthened impetus for innovat

By Wang JunlingThe exports of excavators can indicate the development of the engineering machinery industry and even the manufacturing industry. Since this year, the exports of Chinese excavators have been on a constant rise, becoming a highlight of the sluggish world economic recovery.According to

By Zhang Cong, Ju Yunpeng, People's DailyTo observe whether the public can express their requirements without hindrance is an important way to evaluate whether a country's political system is democratic and efficient.Last year, a primary school student surnamed Wu, who lives by the Suzhou River in S

Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang attended the “Korea-U.S. High-Tech Industry & Clean Energy Partnership” MOU signing ceremony on April 25 at Waldorf Astoria Washington DC where a total of 23 MOUs were signed for stronger forward-looking Korea-U.S. high-tech cooperation.Minister Lee

By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyOn April 13, 2021, Japan unilaterally decided to release the Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Over the past two years, both the Japanese people and the international community have expressed strong concerns over the possible impacts of the decision.T

By People's DailyA report from People's Daily: The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a paper stating China's position on the Afghan issue on April 12. The following is the full text: China's Position on the Afghan IssueChina and Afghanistan are close neighbors with longstanding friendship

By Jin Bo, People's DailyA green photovoltaic project was recently put into use at the north China base of FAW-Volkswagen, which is located in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). The 17MW project is expected to provide 17 million kWh of clean electricity for the production ba

By Li Xinping, People's DailyChina-Europe freight trains made 4,186 trips and transported 449,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of goods in the first quarter this year, up 15 percent and 28 percent year on year, respectively, according to statistics released by China State Railway Group Co., L

By He Yin, People's DailyThis year marked the 60th anniversary of China sending its first medical team to Algeria on April 6, 1963. So far, batches of Chinese medical teams have offered sincere assistance to countries in need with outstanding medical skills and noble ethics. They have explained the

By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyChina has taken a series of countermeasures in response to the meeting between the leader of China's Taiwan region Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during Tsai's so-called "transit" through the U.S., which constituted a grave political provocation agai

By Zhong Sheng, People's DailyTaiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen recently had a "transit" trip through the United States and met with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional members.Such political provocation that engaged in official interaction and elevated the substantive relations betwe

By He Yin, People's DailyFrench President Emmanuel Macron paid a state visit to China from April 5 to 7 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two heads of state had in-depth and high-quality exchanges over the two days in Beijing and Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, whic

By Chang Biluo, People's DailyIt's hard to imagine that a factory has a "farm" on its rooftop, but this is happening in the plant of Mexin Messon Doors Industry Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of windows and doors based in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The rooftop "farm" covers over 20,000 squa

By Zhang Niansheng, Liu Hui, People's DailyMalaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP) located in Malaysia, as a model of China-Malaysia cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has promoted pragmatic cooperation between China and Malaysia and deepened the friendship between the two