Page 32 - Wang Su News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

  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-Operate and Transfer (BOOT) basis at an estimated cost of $1.98bn including a development cost of U...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts the second meeting of China + Central Asia (C+C5) foreign ministers meeting in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's 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. (Xinhua/Wei Xiang)   China on Wednesday pledged to jointly build a belt of mutually beneficial ...

China's 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 country's 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 percent from hospitalization as soon as seven days after the second dose.     The Indonesian stud...

-- 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 Minister Wang Yi addresses the opening ceremony of the Fifth Silk Road International Exposition and the...

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.   China's 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 country's population is aging and the working age population is declining, the editorial also highlighted the increase in the number of urban reside...