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China and five Central Asian countries agreed on Wednesday to push forward the high-quality development of Belt and Road cooperation, strengthen their joint fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, promote regional security and stability and uphold multilateralism as their foreign ministers met in Xian, Shaanxi province.   They also expressed their willingness to enhance strategic mutual trust, respect each others development path and firmly support each other on issues concerning core interests, ...

  KARACHI, May 13 (Gwadar pro)- Federal Minister of Planning and Development Asad Umar on Wednesday afternoon said Zhongtong, one of the earliest listed bus manufacturers in China, will provide 100 18-meter new energy buses for Green Line and Orange Line Bust Rapid Transport (BRT) in Karachi.   The minister made this announcement in a tweet about the completion of a prototype bus for Karachi’s Green Line Metrobus project.   As the first batch of new energy-powered city buses in the city, t...

China on Thursday inaugurated a new national administration of disease prevention and control, with its five major functions including formulating policies for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.   The establishment of the Beijing-based administration signals the expansion of the roles of disease prevention and control agencies from preventing and containing diseases to comprehensively safeguarding and promoting the health of the entire population, according to an official state...

-- "My administration will be pursuing a global effort of ransomware attacks by transnational criminals who often use global money-laundering networks to carry them out," says U.S. President Joe Biden.   The temporary shutdown of the U.S. largest conduit for gasoline and diesel over the weekend has conspicuously triggered off a dire situation of triple predicament for the Joe Biden administration to cope with, which might escalate and deteriorate on the three fronts of fuel supply, energy deve...

  ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Gwadar pro) - Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong said on Wednesday afternoon that China wanted to further expand cooperation with Pakistan.   In a meeting with National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, the envoy discussed matters pertaining to bilateral relations, important regional and global issues and other issues of mutual interest that came under discussion during the meeting.   Nong Rong said that China valued its ideal friendship with Pakistan and friendship wi...

  ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Gwadar pro)- China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority chief Lt. General Asim Saleem Bajwa (ret’d) said on Wednesday that US$1,780 million Karot Hydropower Project under CPEC will be completed in April 2022.   He said that 88 percent of the work on the Karot Hydropower Project had been completed. The hydropower project - the first of its kind under the CPEC - is being built on the River Jhelum, he said in a tweet.   The project is being developed on a Build-Own...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts the second meeting of China + Central Asia (C+C5) foreign ministers meeting in Xian, capital of northwest Chinas Shaanxi Province, May 12, 2021. The meeting was attended by Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, and Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov...

Chinas Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 has appeared to be highly efficacious, as an overwhelming majority of vaccinated health workers were found protected from death and hospitalization, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday.   On Wednesday, Pandji Dhewantara, an official of the countrys health ministry, told a press conference that among the 128,290 health workers vaccinated with Sinovac vaccines and tracked from January to March, 98 percent of them were protected from death and 96 p...

-- The Fifth Silk Road International Exposition has attracted more than 1,900 envoys and guests from 98 countries and regions. Joint efforts to push for deeper Belt and Road economic cooperation are high on the agenda.   -- With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across the globe, the enthusiasm of the international community in jointly promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is tantamount to a resounding vote of confidence in the program.     Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Min...

Innovation and education can help China get rich before it gets old, reads an editorial run Wednesday by China Daily on the findings of a once-in-a-decade national census.   Chinas population on the mainland had increased to 1.41 billion by 2020, up 5.38 percent from 10 years ago. Over the past 10 years, the population has increased at an average annual rate of 0.53 percent, data from the census shows.   Noting that the data indicates that the countrys population is aging and the working age ...