No military posturing and provocative language by any party at the behest of external powers should be allowed to distract, let alone disrupt, the overall symbiotic China-ASEAN partnership.
The film Johnny Keep Walking! has continued to dominate the Chinese mainland box office after the New Year holiday season. With a cumulative box office of 550 million yuan ($70 million) and an expected final box office of over 1.2 billion yuan, the film’s popularity and positive word-of-mouth continues to grow. Behind this success lies the creators’ ability to accurately hit the emotions of workers.
Standing on the observation deck, one is easily captivated by the majestic view of the Xiaowan Hydropower Station (Xiaowan). The massive dam, standing tall and proud, stretches across the roaring Lancang River, creating a mesmerizing sight. It is hard to imagine how the model of an advanced Chinese hydropower station, known as the world’s landmark double-curvature arch concrete dam, uses its slender body to generate an impressively large output of clean and sustainable electricity and benefit riparian countries along the Mekong River.
As Lancang-Mekong River countries vowed to work together to promote regional prosperity at a recently concluded foreign ministers’ meeting held in Beijing, Global Times reporters, together with envoys from many Mekong countries, visited Xiaowan, one of the leading hydropower stations along the Lancang River, to see how it brings practical benefits to downstream countries through flood control, water supply, power generation, and ecological protectio
As China completed another feat on Tuesday, sending the country s first civilian taikonaut to China s space station, stargazers worldwide expressed willingness to carry out more cooperation with China in the aerospace field, despite an ever-intense China-US relation. Although the US government has not stopped their smears and attacks on China s space development, some academicians and institutes from the West are willing to collaborate with China for the advancement of science, as there is no border, no politics in the vast universe, Olivier Contant (Contant),the French-American Executive Director of the International Academy of Astronautics, and Erick Lansard (Lansard), a professor at the Nanyang Technological University, told the Global Times (GT)in an interview.
Editor’s Note:
This Spring Festival holidays were particularly special for people in China and beyond – it was the first holiday after China announced the downgrading of COVID-19 management from a Class A to Class B infectious disease in early January.
How did people spend the holidays? On the journey going back to their hometowns across China, the Global Times reporters extensively learned about how the Spring Festival was celebrated in different parts of the country, in big cities, small towns, villages, and hometowns of overseas Chinese nationals.
The Global Times is publishing a series of stories, under the theme of “Hometown Witness,” to record what the reporters have seen in different parts of China, as well as to illustrating Chinese people’s life after three years of fighting against the epidemic.
In this installment, we follow several reporters to visit their hometowns in rural China, to investigate how rural areas combat infections with relatively modest medica