© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) As China greets the May Day holiday, the first long holiday in 2023 after the seven-day Spring Festival
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Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers’ sentiments and conveying friendship and expectations.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, has managed to find time to reply to some letters from different sectors of the society and different parts of the world despite of his busy work schedule.
Through his letters, Xi has corresponded with international friends from all walks of life on numerous occasions, part of a series of excellent stories of China’s international exchanges in the new era. The letters have also added vivid colors to the diplomacy between China and other countries.
The Global Times traced and contacted some of the recipients of Xi’s letters, to hear the inspiring stories behind the letters and their communications with the Chinese president.
A typically opaque investigation can begin with a tip from a Shanghai Stock Exchange official and end with a ten-year jail term for a businessman convicted of insider trading.
For China’s Small Businesses, Life Is Still Far From Normal
Smaller businesses are proving to be a weak link in China’s economic recovery as they struggle to fully bounce back from the effects of Covid-19.
Like the U.S., China has tens of millions of small and medium-size private businesses, including restaurants and shops, which form the backbone of everyday economic activity. They account for as much as 80% of urban jobs and at least half of China’s tax revenue.
While businesses have benefited from China’s strong rebound this year, many are still trying to overcome weak consumer demand, rising operating costs and tight credit from banks that don’t want to sink more money into wounded companies.
Translation workshop set up to celebrate China-Pakistan ties Chinaculture.org | Updated: 2021-03-11 16:53 Share CLOSE Guests attend the launch ceremony of the China-Pakistani Cultural Translation Workshop online on March 10, 2021. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org]
On March 10, the Sino-Pakistani Translation Workshop, jointly organized by Chinese Culture Translation & Studies Support Network, Social Science Literature Publishing House and Beyond the Horizon PVT Media Co., Ltd., was launched in Beijing.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Pakistan, the workshop aims to further promote the implementation of cultural exchanges between China and Pakistan, promote the translation and publication of books between the two countries and deepen mutual understanding between the two peoples.