China Introduces Visa-Free Entry For Travellers Aboard Cruise Ships

The border gate at the city of Alashankou. Photo: ChinAfrica

China has allowed visa-free entry for foreign tourist groups aboard cruise ships in certain ports along the country’s coastline. This is reported by CCTV+, a partner of TV BRICS. Groups of two or more foreign nationals travelling on cruises can enter China without a visa at 13 ports (e.g. Zhejiang, Fujian, Qingdao and Guangdong provinces).… Continue reading China Introduces Visa-Free Entry For Travellers Aboard Cruise Ships

New Quality Productive Forces Will Have Far-Reaching Impact On Society With Focus On Innovation And Digitisation

A technician manipulates unmanned machinery in a village in Haian, Jiangsu Province, on 26 October 2020. Photo: CNS

Chinese President Xi Jinping has put forward a series of theoretical explanations on new quality productive forces. He has stressed that high-quality development has to be supported by a new productivity theory. Since new productive forces have emerged and played a strong role in driving and supporting high-quality development, they should be theorised systematically to… Continue reading New Quality Productive Forces Will Have Far-Reaching Impact On Society With Focus On Innovation And Digitisation

China’s Hi-Tech Achievements Add To Its Appeal For Foreign Investors

Robots are displayed during the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on 6 July 2023. Photo: VCG

China’s focus on nurturing new quality productive forces while promoting high-quality development provides foreign investors with enormous market opportunities and vast development prospects, amid rising uncertainties in the global economic landscape. In a series of recent engagements with China, foreign investors, including British businesses, have expressed confidence in the future prospects of the market.   At… Continue reading China’s Hi-Tech Achievements Add To Its Appeal For Foreign Investors

China-Africa Cooperation In The Space Sector Exemplifies Mutually Beneficial Partnerships

A Long March-2C carrier rocket carrying satellite MISRSAT-2 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu Province in northwest China on 4 December 2023. Photo: Xinhua

Exports of Chinese satellites, joint construction of space infrastructure, and joint research and development of satellites … The recent years have seen substantial growth in China-Africa cooperation in the space sector, which is bringing tangible benefits to both sides.  Since space utilisation is a highly technology- and capital-intensive industry, partnerships with capable players like China… Continue reading China-Africa Cooperation In The Space Sector Exemplifies Mutually Beneficial Partnerships

China-Africa Space Cooperation To Boost Comprehensive Development

A tractor equipped with the Chinese BeiDou Navigation Satellite System terminals in Tunisia on 10 March 2019 . Photo: Xinhua

Talking about space and Africa, Zambia stands out because of an incredible story. As early as 1964, a Zambian teacher named Edward Nkoloso famously vowed to help his country to beat America to become the first country to put a man on the moon, and then go to Mars. Despite his passion to launch a… Continue reading China-Africa Space Cooperation To Boost Comprehensive Development

China Is Committed To Helping African Countries To Build Their Space Capability

Namibian students visit a space exhibition in Swakopmund, Namibia, on 19 August 2019. Photo: Xinhua

An important feature of China developing its aerospace industry is its insistence on self-reliance and independent innovation, because China firmly believes that aerospace is a hi-tech industry and high core technologies cannot be bought. Only by mastering core technologies can China firmly grasp the initiative in development.  Talent and infrastructure are bottlenecks that have long… Continue reading China Is Committed To Helping African Countries To Build Their Space Capability

China Attaches Special Importance To Young People In Its Space Cooperation With Africa

Prosper Oshomame, a 20-year-old Nigerian artist, is closer than ever to fulfilling his childhood dream of exploring space. His painting Shared Aspirations travelled to space with the Shenzhou-16 mission, which ran from May to October 2023.  The artwork from the young Nigerian depicts an astronaut in a circle formed by the Chinese and Nigerian national flags and surrounded by… Continue reading China Attaches Special Importance To Young People In Its Space Cooperation With Africa

China-Africa Cooperation Propels Space Industry, Drives Socio-Economic Progress

The office of the Egyptian Space Agency in Cairo in Egypt. Photo: Xinhua

In the past, outer space was primarily the domain of a few powerful countries and generally considered separate from broader concerns of human security and development. However, in recent times, space technology development has been a dynamic arena in which the majority of the world’s countries, including countries across the continent of Africa, are actively… Continue reading China-Africa Cooperation Propels Space Industry, Drives Socio-Economic Progress

China’s Trade Turnover With Other BRICS Countries Grew Significantly In First Quarter

China’s trade turnover with other BRICS countries rose 11 per cent year-on-year to 1.49 trillion yuan (US$205,7 billion) in Q1 2024. It accounted for 14.7 per cent of China’s total foreign trade during the period, according to the country’s General Administration of Customs (GAC). This is reported by China Daily, a partner of TV BRICS.… Continue reading China’s Trade Turnover With Other BRICS Countries Grew Significantly In First Quarter

Report: Develop Environment, Climate Cooperation As New Engine Of China-EU Partnership

A think tank report released globally on Friday has called for developing environment and climate cooperation between China and the European Union (EU), and making it a new engine for bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership. The report, titled “China-EU Cooperation on Environment and Climate: Progress and Prospects,” was jointly released by the Research Center for Xi… Continue reading Report: Develop Environment, Climate Cooperation As New Engine Of China-EU Partnership

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