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China’s leaders on Friday set a growth target “above six percent” for 2021, putting it back above pre-pandemic levels, after the virus was largely brought under control at home thanks to strict lockdowns and mass testing. The goal comes after the world’s number two economy suffered its slowest rate of expansion in four decades because
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A grand gathering was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to mark China’s poverty alleviation accomplishments and honor model poverty fighters on Thursday, February 24, at which Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China has secured a “complete victory” in its fight against poverty.
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China’s new rules governing school disciplinary methods came into force on Monday, banning physical punishment and verbal abuse in primary and secondary schools. Educators are prohibited from carrying out disciplinary procedures that would inflict direct physical pain on students, according to the trialed regulations released by the Ministry of Education last December. Other forbidden disciplinary
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China has used extra surveillance and restrictions ostensibly imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic to block the work of foreign reporters already struggling with threats of detention and punitive visa restrictions, a press group said Monday. As the country has largely brought the coronavirus outbreak under control since it emerged in late 2019, Beijing has
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Factory activity in China grew at the slowest pace in nine months in February, as business operations slowed over the country’s Lunar New Year holiday, according to official data released Sunday. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of manufacturing activity, fell to 50.6 last month from 51.3, said the National Bureau of Statistics,
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With the price of copper reaching a 10-year high thanks in no small part to China’s insatiable appetite, Chile, the world’s leading producer, faces a “unique” opportunity, experts told AFP. Copper rose to $4.21 a pound on the London Metal Exchange on Wednesday, meaning it has doubled its price since March 2020. Now experts believe
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China will donate another batch of 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Zimbabwe, the Chinese Ambassador, Guo Shaochun, said on Wednesday. This will be China’s second donation to Zimbabwe after the Asian country recently donated 200,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to help the southern African country fight the pandemic. “Just now I had an
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China’s foreign minister has called on U.S President Joe Biden to drop the tariffs and sanctions imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump. Beijing hopes the U.S. will change tack as soon as possible and abandon unreasonable tariffs on Chinese goods, Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said on Monday at a policy forum in China’s capital. “We
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Images of events around the country. Some are of the Chinese embassy’s celebration of 50-year ties with Nigeria, change of guard at Army Public Relations unit among others. Vanguard News Nigeria
AS a student of alternative development paradigm in a unipolar world (following the deafening collapse of the old USSR in 1989), China as a stable and fast-developing socialist state has been of profound academic and political relevance for me. Certainly I am still fascinated and ever romantic about China which on December 3 last year planted its five-star red flag on the moon and returned safely to the earth with precious debris and rock!
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