The past year has seen women’s voices on marriage and fertility becoming louder, with increasing awareness of gender equality. During the COVID-19 epidemic, hundreds of thousands women also demonstrated their “power” by participating in the fight against this unprecedented health crisis.
China s return to a decades-old tradition of setting numeric economic growth targets, after skipping it for the first time in 2020, its ability to balance various priorities to ensure robust economic development and national security as well as its ambitious and yet specific long-term development plans also projected steadiness and a sense of certainty to a world rattled by the pandemic, analysts noted.
By publishing an opinion piece that s lacking in evidence and laden with fallacies co-authored by former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, the Worst Secretary of State Ever, who simply wants to keep his political profile after stepping down, the Wall Street Journal has trespassed the bottom line of media integrity and descended into a propaganda machine that sells false information for clicks.
The 2020 Spring Festival did not go as Wuhan people had expected. On Chinese New Year s eve last year, the 11-million-population city was put into a lockdown unparalleled in modern society that lasted for 76 days. A year on, the most important festival for Chinese people is approaching again. How are people in Wuhan, still reeling from the pain brought by the coronavirus, celebrating this time round?
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A unique but safe, warm Spring Festival By GT staff reporters Published: Feb 10, 2021 12:13 AM Updated: Feb 10, 2021 12:28 AM
Beijing s Shichahai is decorated to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: VCG
Editor s Note:
To the Chinese, the Spring Festival, or the lunar Chinese New Year, always means many things. But the 2020 Spring Festival did not go as Wuhan people had expected. On Chinese New Year s eve last year, the city of 11 million people was locked down - unparalleled in any modern society - that lasted 76 days. People in other places across China were also kept indoors to avoid being infected.