A top executive at private equity firm Njord Partners has banned his X (previously known as Twitter) account after an inquiry revealed that his firm had received Russian state contracts from entities controlled by sanctioned individuals, including a Vladimir Putin buddy.The Telegraph newspaper discovered that Arvid Trolle, a partner and co-founder of Njord Partners LLP,…
By Qiu Chaoyi, Li Xinping, Han Xin, People’s Daily The Spring Festival travel rush, carrying people’s hopes for family reunion, reflects the new landscape of China’s high-quality development. During the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, which ran from Feb. 10 to 17, China reported about 2.3 billion trips in varied modes of transport. In particular, the…
By Wu Yue, People’s Daily “Liang, where are you going, ” asked a villager in Xikou village, Mingshuihe township, Arxan of Hinggan League, north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. “I have a guest, so I’m showing him around the village,” Liang Shusen answered. Today, Xikou village has become more and more enriched with cultural landscapes…
By Gong Xiangjuan, People’s Daily At an accessibility communication center named Xinzhiguang, which means “the light of heart,” in north China’s Tianjin municipality, Wang Hui was sitting in front of a computer, preparing for a speech to be delivered at a conference in the afternoon. Wang was invited by Tianjin’s municipal health commission to provide…
By Wang Ke, People’s Daily At the National Museum of Classic Books, an immersive exhibition hall has been launched to present a fascinating journey exploring the past and present of the Yongle Encyclopedia, the largest encyclopedia in ancient China commissioned by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty(1368-1644). Based on the history of the Yongle…
By Shi Ling, People’s Daily Long Fei, a migrant worker that works in south China’s Guangdong province, returns to his home in Guizhou every Chinese New Year. Many years ago, Long and other fellow migrant workers working in the Pearl River Delta region often rode motorcycles back home due to China’s limited transportation capacity and…
By Huan Yuping, People’s Daily Some pessimism about economic globalization has emerged in recent years due to rising protectionism, increasing blockages in global industrial and supply chains, and weakness of international trade. This has led some to proclaim the “golden age” of economic globalization is over. While concerns about challenges facing the world economy are…
By Wang Wenzheng Recently, 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China successively released their economic performance for 2023 and announced their economic development targets for the coming year. Guangdong became the first province to surpass 13 trillion yuan ($1.83 trillion) in GDP, while Jiangsu maintained its position as the top recipient of actual utilization…
