Divisions in education. We will have Public Interest in education and pilot comprehensive Higher Education reform. Li comprehensive Higher Education reform. ,. ~ reform. Li qiang there talking about education reform. Li qiang there talking about education and reform. Li qiang there talking about education and the reform. Li qiang there talking about education and the needi reform. Li qiang there talking i about education and the need to develop it for a modern economy. Well get the thoughts of our Business Reporter on that in just of our Business Reporter on that injust a of our Business Reporter on that in just a bit. But first, lets come back to that big sort of Headline Figure thats come out, where theyve stated, or li qiang has stated, that target for gdp for 2024 is 5 . Thats right. So that all emerged in the last five or so minutes, steve. Maniage is wondered whether or not theyd be able to back up that figure. 5. 2 , of course, in 2023. Whether or not, given its coming off now a
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Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Biggest challenges facing chinas economy. A huge crisis when it comes to confidence as a result of the property crisis. Trying to get people out spending again. They said for example that china would surge ahead towards a great future and the question is that 5 target, there was not a lot of specific about how theyre going to achieve this. He also lauded the past achievements, talking about science, technology and Artificial Intelligence as well as the airline. ~. ,. , intelligence as well as the airline. , airline. What was beyond the economy . Airline. What was beyond the economy . The airline. What was beyond the economy . The birthrate airline. What was beyond the economy . The birthrate was| airline. What was beyond the i economy . The birthrate was an interesting economy . The birthrate was an interesting element. Economy . The birthrate was an interesting element. China economy . The birthrate was an interesting element. China is i interesting element. China is facing a demograp
Of the Biggest Companies in the world, owned by asias richest man, Mukesh Ambani mix it mixing that with the huge presence that disney has, there, means it is a huge disrupter for that sector, and itll probably be subject to Regulatory Approval because of that. Lets turn to the us, where its economy grew at an annual pace of 3. 2 from october through december. That figure is less than the commerce departments initial estimate. But Consumer Spending grew by 3 in the same period. Also, strong exports also contributed to Fourth Quarter growth. From the worlds biggest economy to the worlds Fastest Growing economy indias latest gdp figures are due out later today. The south asian country experienced an impressive first half of 2023. But then, its growth is expected to have slowed down in the last three months. The bbc S Archana Shukla explains. After an impressive first half of the year, Economic Growth is expected to slow down in the october to december quarter. What is taking it down is a