Xi highlights commitment to green development By Shadrack Kuyoh | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-05-06 08:37 Share CLOSE At the invitation of US President Joe Biden, President Xi Jinping attends the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link and delivers an important speech titled For Man and Nature: Building a Community of Life Together in Beijing, April 22, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping s speech on April 22 to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, hosted by the United States, was prudent and pertinent to engagement with environmentally accountable development.
It built on crucial environmental principles, including proportionality, responsibility and being precautionary, and further revitalized the ancient Chinese philosophy of the unity of nature and man and following nature s course. The ideology is engraved in Xi s government, through the Constitution and the master blueprint of national developm
Palladium holds near record high Spot gold to retest resistance at $1,802/oz - technicals (Recasts, adds chart, updates prices)
May 6 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Thursday as a pullback in the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields lifted demand for the safe-haven metal, while investors awaited U.S. non-farm payrolls data for April due later this week.
Spot gold was up 0.4% at $1,794.30 per ounce by 0650 GMT. U.S. gold futures rose 0.6% to $1,794.20 per ounce.
“The U.S. Federal Reserve is continuing to push back here, it is good for gold because it’s keeping yields lower. I think this will eventually lead to a weaker U.S. dollar,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.
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Local govt bond issues to rise this year By CHEN JIA | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-06 08:58 Share CLOSE Workers are busy at the construction site of a smart factory in the economic and technological development zone in Yinchuan, Northwest China s Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on May 1, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Local government bond issuances are expected to hit a record this year as the government continues steps to stabilize infrastructure construction and spur economic growth, despite economic activity almost rebounding to the levels before the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.
According to estimates from the National Debt Association of China and China Chengxin International Credit Rating, new local government bond issuances in the country are set to reach 4.62 trillion yuan ($714 billion) by the end of this year, with local government special-purpose bonds accounting for a substantial portion of the total. The expe