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Recently, media commentary emerging from European countries suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp reduction of Chinese investment in economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.   Some people continue to express concern over a perceived debt issue, while others sought to highlight that coal-fired power plants are being built under the BRI framework.   To be sure, there are others who have taken cognizance of the new economic development opportunities that the BRI...

Hungarian President Janos Ader receives an injection of Chinas Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19 in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 26, 2021. (Photo by Noemi Bruzak/MTI/Handout via Xinhua)   - Hungarian President Janos Ader called on all Hungarians to register for the vaccination as soon as possible.   - As of Saturday, 563,601 people have received at least a first vaccine jab, while 244,407 have received two jabs.   Hungarian President Janos Ader received an injection of Chinas Sinopharm vaccine a...

Malawians who recovered from COVID-19 have embarked on an initiative of sharing their COVID-19 experience into communities.   Felix Khonje, a primary school teacher, who was once tested positive is empowering people in his community about the effects of stigma on people with COVID-19 prevention and dealing away with myths and misconceptions.   At first, it was very hard for Khonje to share his COVID-19 experience among his fellows because of the beliefs and myths about the pandemic that peopl...

    After leaders of China and France talked on bilateral ties, French experts have said that Europe, including France, should strengthen cooperation with China to meet challenges for the good of humanity.   In a telephone conversation on Thursday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the two countries should cement mutual trust, respect and accomodate in earnest each others core interests and major concerns, and effectively implement their major coop...

When a plane carrying Thailands first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Chinas Sinovac landed at an airport here on Wednesday, people waiting on the tarmac cheered and applauded.   "Thank you to the Peoples Republic of China for delivering the first batch of vaccines this month and the following batches in the subsequent months," said Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, when he welcomed the vaccines arrival at the airport.   Prayut expressed his gratitude while a refrigerated container, with...

Chinas passenger vehicle sales are expected to surge 377 percent year on year to around 1.19 million units in February due to the low base factor last year, according to a report from an industrial association.   On a monthly basis, the sales of passenger cars, including sedans, sport-utility vehicles and multipurpose vehicles, will fall 44.9 percent considering the low demand during the countrys seven-day Spring Festival holiday, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed.  ...

Wen Shishan, 57, wandered in a bamboo grove, holding a machete in search of ideal materials to make oil-paper umbrellas, an old craft dating back to over a millennium ago.   Situated in Hangzhou, capital of East Chinas Zhejiang province, Wens workshop boasts more than 800,000 fans on the popular Chinese short-video platform Douyin. The digital renaissance of the ancient handicraft can be traced in part to Zhang Jianhua, a short video maker born in the 1990s.   In 2018, Zhang began to help Wen...

  BAHAWALPUR, Feb. 28 (China Economic Net) - Maize-soybean strip intercropping technology, an advanced Chinese agricultural technology created high yield of both crops while not occupying extra land, finished its first-phase sowing on 30-acre land of Pakistan. Once the second phase completes in March, this spring the total area of demonstration plots will reach 100 acres, making a giant leap of about 270.4% in comparison with last season’s area.   “In the last one and half months, we trav...

    Jinggangshan, the heartland of the early revolutionary activities of the CPC, announced that it had been officially taken off the list of impoverished areas.     The 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum kicked off in Beijing. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sent a letter of congratulation to the meeting commending Chinas poverty-reduction strategy. He said that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and Chinas poverty-alleviation experience c...

A wave of cold air will sweep Chinas northern regions, bringing gales from Sunday evening to Tuesday, according to the countrys top meteorological authority.   Accompanied by strong winds, temperatures will drop by 4 to 8 degrees Celsius in the northern and northeastern regions as well as areas along the Yellow River, Yangtze River and Huai River, the National Meteorological Center said Sunday.   Over the next three days, there will be mild to moderate snow in parts of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomo...