Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed increasing support for agricultural production to ensure that annual grain output continues to exceed 1.3 trillion jin (650 billion kg) this year. Click here to read... [2]
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, has signed an order promulgating a set of regulations on the experiment and assessment of military equipment. Click here to read... [3]
Chinese scientists have made a significant step in discovering how the human brain stores and processes sequential information, a natural capacity with a vast array of applications, from remembering lists to learning the steps of a new dance. Click here to read... [4]
Various parts of China are making concrete efforts to accelerate the country's comprehensive transition to a greener economy and society. Many regions across the country recently issued their blueprints for green and low-carbon development during the local "two sessions", the annual meetings of lawmakers and political advisors at various levels. Click here to read... [5]
The expanding list of drugs and medical consumables included in China's bulk-buy program is expected to cover traditional Chinese medicines and more orthopedic and dental implants this year, the National Healthcare Security Administration said on Friday. Click here to read... [6]
Bakeries in several cities, including Chongqing, Ningbo, Shantou, were investigated for making Beijing 2022 mascot Bing Dwen Dwen shaped cakes, which constitutes a violation of licensing rights of the Olympic symbols. Click here to read... [7]
The sign is clearer than ever that the US is turning Quad into a tool to serve its own strategic goal of countering China and Russia simultaneously, observers said, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought the topic of the Ukraine crisis to the Friday meeting of Quad foreign ministers even though this group of US, Australia, Japan and India was formed for "Indo-Pacific" affairs and to target China. Click here to read... [8]
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force units across all five theater commands recently conducted simultaneous exercises after the PLA Navy held concurrent drills in three major sea regions in a similar manner, in a move that displayed the Chinese military's high level of combat preparedness facing military provocations from the US and its allies, analysts said on Sunday. Click here to read... [9]
An International Labour Organization committee has expressed "deep concern" about China's policies in its far western region of Xinjiang, calling them discriminatory and asking Beijing to bring its employment practices into line with global standards. The report on the region, home to China's minority Muslim Uyghurs, risks stoking geopolitical tensions between China and the United States at a sensitive time for Beijing as it hosts the Winter Olympics. Click here to read... [10]
China's commercial banks saw their bad loan ratio decline 0.02 basis points to 1.73% at end-December versus three months earlier, the sector's regulator said on Friday. Outstanding non-performing loans in the commercial banking sector stood at 2.8 trillion yuan ($440.66 billion), an increase of 13.5 billion yuan from the end of the third quarter, according to a statement on the website of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC). Click here to read... [11]
The U.S. administration of President Joe Biden on Friday vowed in its Indo-Pacific strategy to bolster its security and economic role to advance a free and open region, while building "collective capacity" with allies to counter China's growing assertiveness. Among actions to be taken in the next 12 to 24 months, the Biden administration said it will reinforce deterrence against military aggression targeting the United States, its allies and partners, including across the Taiwan Strait, and expand its Coast Guard presence and cooperation in Southeast Asia. Click here to read... [12]
A bus explosion killed one person and injured 42 people, two of them seriously, in northeastern China on Saturday, around 600km (390 miles) from Beijing, where the Winter Olympics have entered their second week. The cause of the rush hour blast in Shenyang, provincial capital of Liaoning, is under investigation, but it comes at a sensitive time for the Chinese government, which is keen to avoid any security issues during the Games. Click here to read... [13]
Drones are playing a growing role in China’s military operations, from the Himalayan border areas to the depths of the seas off its eastern and southern coasts, as the People’s Liberation Army embeds the technology in nearly every sphere of operations. Recent satellite images, as well as media and academic reports, have confirmed a significant stepping up in the deployment of drones, developed for an array of uses, in joint combat operations and strategies. Click here to read... [14]
A submarine shown in a video posted on social media could be a new, smaller Chinese class prioritising stealth and low cost, and used to counter drones, experts said. Video footage posted on Facebook in a group called “Comments on the PLA” appeared to show an unknown type of Chinese submarine surfacing in a reservoir. It appeared to be undergoing early-stage trials, because the footage, posted by a user called Liu Chengliang, showed two white stripes printed on the sail, as is commonly seen on new Chinese submarines during early tests. Click here to read... [15]
China’s ambition to build a unified electricity market to support its climate goals could lead the sector into a new era and give renewable energy a big push, analysts said. However, ineffective power trading programmes and potentially large trading volumes suggest the system could be difficult to implement. Click here to read... [16]
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[1] https://www.vifindia.org/2022/february/14/china-daily-scan
[2] https://english.news.cn/20220213/76cd77dbf8e5415e920eab378aebd101/c.html
[3] https://english.news.cn/20220212/ab7897db41714b209f3552cd9818d26e/c.html
[4] https://english.news.cn/20220211/dee26484a5404f4390364d088b085618/c.html
[5] http://en.qstheory.cn/2022-02/14/c_706915.htm
[6] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202202/11/WS620608bfa310cdd39bc8621e.html
[7] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252156.shtml
[8] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252049.shtml
[9] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252135.shtml
[10] https://www.reuters.com/world/ilo-seeks-changes-chinas-discriminatory-labour-policies-xinjiang-2022-02-11/
[11] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-commercial-banks-bad-loan-ratio-declines-says-regulator-2022-02-11/
[12] https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/02/478af539e8d2-urgent-us-vows-in-new-indo-pacific-strategy-to-strengthen-role-in-region.html
[13] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3166931/rush-hour-mystery-bus-blast-china-kills-1-injures-42
[14] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3166475/chinese-military-plays-game-drones-himalayas-south-china-sea
[15] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3166756/facebook-video-new-chinese-submarine-gets-experts-tongues
[16] https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3166867/chinas-unified-power-market-give-renewable-energy-boost-its-implementation
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