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By He Yin, People’s Daily As the new year began, a train loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables set off from China’s Yunnan province to the capital of Laos, Vientiane; in many Chinese supermarkets, Lao bananas imported by cold-chain trains via the China-Laos Railway are sold, enriching consumers’ choices. The China-Laos Railway is becoming a…

By He Yin, People’s Daily “China will work with all countries to promote friendship and cooperation, enhance mutual learning among different cultures, and build a community with a shared future for mankind. We must jointly create a better future for the world,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in his 2025 New Year message. His remarks…

By Wang Junling Starting from Jan. 1, 2025, provisional import tariffs, lower than the most-favored-nation rates, have been applied to 935 Chinese commodities as part of an annual tariff adjustment plan recently issued by the Customs Tariff Commission of China’s State Council. Experts said that lower provisional tariffs have been implemented for some raw materials,…

By He Yin, People’s Daily “On the new journey of Chinese modernization, everyone is a key actor, every effort counts, and every ray of light shines,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in his 2025 New Year message. When delivering the New Year message, Xi reviewed the extraordinary journey completed by the Chinese people under the…

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily “Either way, China and America are compelled to work together if there is going to be a stable 21st century. If competition and collaboration give way entirely to confrontation, a disorderly 21st century awaits us both.” This was written by American opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman in an article after…

By People’s Daily reporters “Rush to the earthquake-stricken area, at full speed!” At 9:05 a.m. on Jan. 7, after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Dingri county in southwest China’s Xizang autonomous region, the captain of the Dingri county fire rescue brigade, Dondrup Gyaltsen, urgently gave the command. In just three minutes, the fire rescue brigade was…

By Wang Zheng, People’s Daily Two humanoid robots Walker S1 developed by Chinese robot manufacturer UBTECH recently conducted practical training in a logistics warehouse of Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer BYD in Changsha, central China’s Hunan province. The two robots, 172 centimeters in height, each squatted down and picked up a six-kilogram material box from…

By Han Xin, People’s Daily At around 9 am, a ship laden with cargo arrived at a fully automated container terminal of Qingdao Port in east China’s Shandong province. As the ship docked, intelligent operation promptly commenced. Several gantry cranes descended from a height of tens of meters, their “arms” expertly grabbing and positioning the…

By Wang Hao, People’s Daily In a farm in northwest China’s Gansu province, sensors are inserted into the soil to monitor humidity, while a miniature weather station tracks wind and light conditions. “Last year, the sunflower yield per mu (about 667 square meters) exceeded 280 kilograms, an increase of 15 percent,” said Zou Changsheng, head…

By Yang Yi, People’s Daily The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is the free trade area with the biggest population, the largest trade scale and the greatest potential for development. Since the RCEP came into force in January 2022, it has delivered increasingly prominent institutional dividends such as tariff reductions, simplified customs procedures, and trade…