The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest trading bloc, will expand China's participation in regional industry and supply chains. Liu Zhiqin, a senior research fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, explains how the RCEP will redefine China's southwestern region.
In a year highlighted by increasing uncertainties, China has stayed steadfast in advancing regulations over the digital economy to guide the healthy development of the booming sector.
Nearly two years ago on January 15, 2020, China signed what is termed "phase-one" agreement with the US in the hope of ending the 22-month-old US-initiated trade deadlock, defusing a costly trade war, giving relief to businesses and reassuring the global economy.
2021 was a largely successful year for Chinese foreign policy, due to China’s effective control of the COVID-19 crisis domestically, stable economic growth, and active participation in global governance, particularly in the area of climate change. As Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently commented in his overview of the year, “We celebrated the centenary of the Communist Party of China and embarked on a new journey for the second centenary. Drawing strength from its achievements in the past century, China’s diplomacy has forged ahead bravely in the game of chess and written a new chapter in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.”
Nearly a year into his administration, US President Joe Biden's promise to "heal" the US in his inaugural address, delivered on January 20, has not been realized. The Capitol riot on January 6, together with a deep divide in the US economy and society, are still lingering in the Biden administration. The 117th US Congress shows an intensified neo-tribalism in the US society. Besides political infightings with Republicans, Biden has to struggle with some members in his own party, the Democratic Party.
The US has continuously escalated its global siege of Chinese manufacturing.
China's industrial profits in November grew by 9 percent compared with a year earlier and slower than the previous month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday.
China's central rural work conference was held this past weekend, with the country's leaders discussing important rural issues, the state of agriculture and the needs of farmers. Officials also mapped out a development plan for next year. Ahead of the conference, Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated the need to stabilize the agricultural sector, and ensure the nation's food security. He called for more efforts to guarantee stability in agricultural production. The Chinese leader says ensuring the supply of primary products should be a priority, and that it is crucial that the country has firm control over its own food supply. Wang Siwen reports.
Editor's note: Djoomart Otorbaev is the former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and a member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
Jiang, responsible for the section between southwest China's Chongqing and Dazhou of Sichuan, said his workload surged amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Earlier, we could take a six-hour break after the arrival of the train in Dazhou, but now the instruction to return comes upon our arrival."
China has challenged the ideological challenge of the usefulness and relevance of Western democracy. that will ever happen, Very few people would have guessed this in the West until recently. China to its system ,Chinese type of socialism says. He has tried to prove his system better than American-style democracy by calling his system a total process democracy. This argument was formulated in its pamphlet by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, a think tank based at China’s Renmin University. The name of that bookTen questions from American democracy Kept.
Myanmar will include yuan in its official settlement currency for border trade with China, and the targeted settlement scale in the pilot phase is set at around 2 billion yuan ($314 million), equivalent to about one fifth of the value of cargo border trade between the two countries via inland routes, sources close to the matter told the Global Times.
In the third decade of the 21st century, China has more control over the pace of development than ever before. Unlike Japan, China cannot be lectured and manipulated by the United States. China is not Iran either, pursuing a completely anti-US strategy. China maintains its power against the United States, and can defend its core interests without being led by a heavy-handed Washington, writes Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY), Deputy Dean of Silk Road School, Renmin University of China, a speaker of the 12th Asian Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club.
The Indian government on Monday appointed Pradeep Kumar Rawat as the next ambassador of India to China. A Chinese-speaking Indian "China hand," Rawat started his diplomatic career in China-related affairs and spent many years in Beijing and Hong Kong hereafter. We met in January 2015 when I was on a visit to India. When I arrived at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), it was Rawat, who was then the joint secretary in the East Asia division of the MEA, that was in charge of reception.
There is now a 50-50 tie in the US Senate between Republicans and Democrats, which is a typical phenomenon of the polarization of the US politics and society. The recently blocked Build Back Better Act that US President Joe Biden has been pushing since September is hampered by such a split.
Two Chinese companies are awarded the contracts. Over the next two years, Power China will build 679 schools while Sino Tech will build 321. For UNICEF, decades of wars and violence have brought one of the best education systems in the region to its knees. In the first six months of 2021, Sino-Iraqi trade reached US$ 16.3 billion.
Chinese companies have signed deals to build 1,000 schools in Iraq, a long-stalled construction project, as part of moves to help reconstruct the war-torn Mideast country, local sources confirmed with the Global Times, after the US announced it would formally end its combat mission in Iraq.
Facing severe domestic challenges in modernizing its economic model for the future, as well as sanctions and tariffs by the U.S., China is reorienting its policy toward high-quality economic growth. The model consists of the rapid development of the high-tech sector and the accelerated adoption of modern digital ecosystems and platforms. Considering the new priorities, how should China's foreign economic policy be modified? How would the new policy affect its cooperation with the Belt and Road nations?
The phrase common prosperity has gained prominence this year, as China is determined to bring better lives to more people.
Citing anonymous sources, a recent Reuters report said that the US e-commerce giant Amazon, at China's request two years ago, chose to disable the comments section for certain books in China, claiming that the company "complied" in order to "win favor in Beijing."