BEIJING, July 01 (Xinhua) — Having finished a delivery, Hou Bo rode his electric motorbike to Yijiashan community in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province — known as “the world’s supermarket.” Instead of rushing to grab his next order, he stepped into a community service centre, took a cup of free chilled mung bean soup and topped up his water bottle. “It’s sweltering out there, and the centre is a welcome break,” said Hou. The community service centre is an initiative implemented by…

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Survival rate of released pandas reaches 81 per cent In recent years, Chinese scientists have made significant progress in the reintroduction of captive giant pandas into the wild, injecting new vitality into the conservation efforts for this endangered species. This was reported by China Daily, a TV BRICS partner. Since 2003, the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda has been actively pursuing a giant panda reintroduction programme. The centre has developed a training method for juvenile giant…

HANGZHOU, June 13 (Xinhua) — Before the opening whistle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City on Thursday, Yiwu has already made its move. In this inland city, known as the “world’s supermarket” in east China’s Zhejiang Province, factories and traders have done their homework. They designed fan jerseys, filed patent applications, locked in production capacity and took orders for horns, flags and other football merchandise well in advance. To many outside China, Yiwu is known as the…

FUZHOU, June 13 (Xinhua) — In the late 1980s, waves of development swept Chinese cities into the throes of a property boom, and the fate of a crumbling compound in the heart of Fuzhou, capital of east China’s Fujian Province, seemed all but sealed. A glaring Chinese character meaning “demolish” had been painted on the front wall of the historic residence at Fuzhou’s Sanfangqixiang, meaning “Three Lanes and Seven Alleys,” a neighbourhood steeped in over 1,000 years of history. Scholars…

BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — China’s foreign trade maintained steady growth momentum in May, underscoring the resilience of the wider economy and its deepening integration with global markets. The total value of goods imports and exports in yuan-denominated terms grew 16.9 percent year on year to reach 4.45 trillion yuan (about 653 billion U.S. dollars) last month, remaining above 4 trillion yuan for three consecutive months, data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed Tuesday. Exports rose 13.8 percent…

The completion of the Super Carbon One demonstration marks a milestone in advanced waste heat recovery technology and energy system innovation The second 15-megawatt unit of the Super Carbon One global demonstration project was successfully connected to the grid in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province, marking the full completion of the world’s first 2×15MW supercritical carbon dioxide waste heat power generation system, as reported by Science and Technology Daily, a partner of TV BRICS. The project represents a major step forward in…

HANGZHOU, June 8 (Xinhua) — In August 2005, sweltering heat hung over a hilly village in east China. Inside a modest meeting room, an air conditioner hummed against the summer heat as Xi Jinping, then chief of the Zhejiang provincial committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), met local officials during an inspection tour. Yucun Village in northern Zhejiang had made a painful yet pivotal choice: shutting down three quarries and a cement plant that had long been its…

HANGZHOU, June 5 (Xinhua) — As China works to narrow the development gap between cities and the countryside, the transformation of Jiaxing City in eastern Zhejiang Province is reflected in something as ordinary as a bus ride. One spring afternoon in 2004, Xi Jinping, then secretary of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), stepped onto a bus in downtown Jiaxing and rode more than 20 kilometres to the rural end of the route. Xi wanted to…

BEIJING, June 02 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping often interacts with children on International Children’s Day, extending warm greetings to children across the country. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently replied in a letter to student docents at the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the CPC in Shanghai and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Museum in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. He encouraged them…