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China maintained its grain purchase level at over 400 million tonnes last year despite disastrous weather conditions and ensured a stable grain market, according to a national work conference on food and strategic reserves that concluded Tuesday.China enjoys abundant grain reserve, with its stock-to...
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China on Tuesday sent a new astronomical satellite into space to observe mysterious transient phenomena in the universe which flicker like fireworks, trying to reveal more about this violent and little-known side of the cosmos.The satellite named Einstein Probe (EP), which uses new X-ray detection t...
Guest speakers at the China Economic Roundtable hosted by Xinhua News Agency have reiterated that China will continue to improve its business environment in order to boost foreign investment confidence.Zhu Bing, director of the department of foreign investment administration of the Ministry of Comme...
As China beefs up efforts to expand institutional opening up and reduce restrictions on foreign investment, more opportunities will emerge for global investors to share in the dividends of China's development, experts said.In the third episode of the China Economic Roundtable hosted by Xinhua Ne...
China's State Council has released a guideline document specifying key reform measures to improve the budget system for the revenue generated from state capital operations.The guidelines outline detailed measures, aiming to put in place a comprehensive, optimized, smooth and effective budget sys...
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At least 13 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air raid which targeted an inhabited house in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Saturday, Palestinian media reported. Most of the dead were women and children, and many others were injured in the airstrike, according to the officia...
A major earthquake on Monday rocked central Japan, prompting concerns over the safety of nuclear plants in the quake-affected region.A series of strong temblors, with a major one of preliminary 7.6 magnitude, hit the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture at a shallow depth on Monday. The Japan Meteo...
Tesla's Shanghai plant, the U.S. carmaker's first gigafactory outside the United States, delivered 947,000 vehicles in 2023, the company said on Wednesday in its production and deliveries report for 2023.The company said the figure was a 33 percent increase from the previous year. It added t...
A large-scale wind power project, standing at an average altitude of 4,650 meters and with a total installed capacity of 100 megawatts, commenced operation on Monday in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.According to CHN Energy Investment Group (CHN Energy), the group of 25 wind turbines...
China on Monday formally started its fifth national economic census.Some 2.1 million enumerators will go into businesses and communities to collect and register economic data in 1.16 million census areas over the next nearly four months, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).China'...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his British counterpart David Cameron on Sunday exchanged views on the rising tension in the Red Sea as well as the conflict in Gaza.In a phone conversation, Amir-Abdollahian accused the United States and certain Western countries of applying dou...
As German companies are getting increasingly dissatisfied with their status quo, their scepticism over business prospects for the first half of 2024 has grown.The ifo Business Climate Index, which measures entrepreneurs' sentiments about the current business situation and their expectations for ...
Russia has already evaluated any potential "retaliatory steps" it can take if the country's assets are seized, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Peskov made the remarks while commenting on Washington's proposal made within the G7, where it urged working groups to...
A Chinese envoy on Friday asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be cautious in dealing with the appointment of a special envoy for Afghanistan. The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution on the Afghanistan independent assessment, which requests the secretary-general to appoint a...
A UN official on Friday warned of the consequences of the threat posed by Yemen's Houthi militia on maritime navigation in the Red Sea."The continued Houthi threat to maritime navigation in the Red Sea is of growing concern. It risks exacerbating regional tensions, and further escalation, a...
Turkish security forces detained 189 suspected members of the Islamic State in an operation codenamed "Heroes-38" across 37 provinces in the country, a cabinet minister said on Saturday.The operation was carried out "simultaneously" in all the provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yer...
In a video message released on the eve of 2024, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the world, reflecting on the trials and tribulations of the past year and offering a vision of unity and hope for the year ahead."2023 has been a year of enormous suffering, violence, and climate cha...
Zimbabwe and Zambia will experience further curtailed electricity generation from their two hydropower stations at Lake Kariba following a reduction in water allocation to their two power utilities for the coming year by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA).ZRA announced Thursday that the Zimbabwe Powe...
Italy has experienced a record-setting number of extreme weather events in 2023, a year that is set to be the warmest in more than 150 years, reports said on Thursday.According to the climate observatory run by the environmental lobby group Legambiente, Italy reported 378 severe weather events in 20...
Following China's tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference earlier this month, multiple government authorities have convened meetings, making specific arrangements to anchor the growth momentum of the Chinese economy in 2024.Boosting sci-tech innovation and expanding domestic demand are amo...
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