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Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees

Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees

Xi Focus-Closeup: A teenager’s enduring bond with trees Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 20:58:45 This video screenshot shows Liu Weiran (R) and her mother looking at a Chinese toon tree near their apartment building in Beijing, capital of China, May 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Peiran) BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — From a small sapling to a tree, Liu Weiran, a curious 17-year-old, has often pondered how much a tree grows each year. Consequently, the eleventh grader from Tsinghua University High School-Chaoyang acquired a habit of regularly visiting the crabapple tree she planted six years ago. “At that time, I was not...

Xi Focus-Closeup: The growth story of a “dot”

Xi Focus-Closeup: The growth story of a “dot” Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 19:48:16 This photo taken on March 30, 2023 shows a view of Luotuowan Village, Fuping County, north China’s Hebei Province. (Photo by Bai Xu/Xinhua) SHIJIAZHUANG, June 1 (Xinhua) — The dot Tang Xiaoyi uses as his social media handle is invisible to many. Similarly, his home village Luotuowan, in Fuping County, north China’s Hebei Province, may appear as just another dot on the country’s digital map. However, the village’s remarkable strides in poverty reduction cannot be disregarded. Situated less than 40 km from Fuping’s county seat, Luotuowan...

Xiplomacy: China-Africa reciprocal cooperation prospers thanks to close people-to-people bonds

Xiplomacy: China-Africa reciprocal cooperation prospers thanks to close people-to-people bonds Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-02 00:38:15 Doctors from the 29th Chinese medical team to the Republic of the Congo provide physical exam for children at an adoption center in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, May 30, 2023. (Photo by Guy-Gervais Kitina/Xinhua) To celebrate this year’s International Children’s Day that falls on Thursday, China and the Organization of African First Ladies for Development launched the “Warm Children’s Hearts, a China-Africa Joint Action” initiative to arouse public awareness and show their love and care for African children. Over the...

Xi Story: Xi’s commitment to empowering Chinese children

Xi Story: Xi’s commitment to empowering Chinese children Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-01 18:52:45 Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with students at a science classroom of Beijing Yuying School in Beijing, capital of China, May 31, 2023. Xi on Wednesday visited Beijing Yuying School and extended festival greetings to children across the country ahead of International Children’s Day, which falls on June 1. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — Ahead of International Children’s Day, which is celebrated on June 1 every...

GLOBALink | Xi’s care for “water tower”

GLOBALink | Xi’s care for “water tower” Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-05 10:31:12 0:00 /5:48 XINING, June 5 (Xinhua) — Sanjiangyuan in Qinghai contains the headwaters of China’s three major rivers. President Xi Jinping underlines the importance of preserving the area and has shown deep care for how it has integrated ecological protection with improvements to local people’s livelihoods. Produced by Xinhua Global Service Copyright©2000-2023XINHUANET.com All rights reserved.

New ICRISAT-FAO Partnership to Support Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Boosting Cereal Production

New ICRISAT-FAO Partnership to Support Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Boosting Cereal Production Media Release The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to enhance the productivity of millet and sesame crops in Saudi Arabia.This collaboration, which supports the desert nation’s ambitions toward achieving greater advancement in food production, will also promote economic diversification, conservation, and the use and application of digital tools to tackle unique challenges in the face of limited natural resources, particularly water. Despite only 3% of the agricultural land being irrigated by rainfall, the...

Consumers to save K1.5bn from fuel price drop, says Dr. Johnstone Chikwanda

Since April this year fuel pump prices have been steadily falling and this will lead to petroleum products consumers saving an accumulated K1.5billion, reports *Francis Lungu* . Giving an analysis on the downward trend of fuel pump prices observed in the last three months, international energy expert Johnstone Chikwanda says in the month of April alone, the reduction in petroleum products prices resulted in consumers saving about K940million. This was followed by another K164millon saved due to the drop of prices in May, according to Dr Chikwanda. “For June the consumers will be saved K400 million. So by end of...

ATCA calls on African governments to collaborate in helping tobacco farmers shift to food crops

  AS THE world commemorates the World No Tobacco Day which is annually observed on May 31, the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) is calling on African governments to collaborate with the non-state actors in finding alternatives for tobacco farmers, reports *Francis Lungu* . This year’s World No Tobacco Day is being held around the theme “We need food, not tobacco,” to emphasize on the importance of farmers shifting from tobacco cultivation to food crops. Leading in the collaboration with the civil society and international organisations to promote better alternatives for tobacco farmers is the Kenyan government, which ATCA says...

Moldovan opposition accuses President Sandu of power usurpation and corruption

In Moldova the internal confrontation between the current government of Maia Sandu, the political opposition and the national minorities oppressed by Chisinau deepens. Against the background of the economic and energy catastrophe to which this post-Soviet republic has been exposed as a result of the activities of pro-Western politicians, the country is threatened by the separation of another national autonomy and the development of protests by supporters of opposition parties. In addition to regular rallies and speeches across the country by the Shor party whose leaders are subjected to systematic persecution by the ruling regime’s security services and police, on...

HH hailed for measures to reduce cumbersome investment licencing procedure

HH hailed for measures to reduce cumbersome investment licencing procedure* The private sector has expressed gratitude at President Hakainde Hichilema’s pronounced measures and commitment to reducing the lengthy and cumbersome regulatory approval process for investment licenses, reports *Francis Lungu* . President Hichilema made an undertaking that his new dawn government will ensure that protracted procedures in obtaining various investment permits in the country are considerably reduced. Speaking at State House on May 17, 2023 during a press briefing, the head of State said there is need to reduce the time for investment approval in order to enhance attraction for Foreign...

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