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Islamabad, March 22 2025 – HBL Zarai Services Limited (HZSL) and Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance financial inclusion and modern agricultural services for farmers across Pakistan. This strategic collaboration aims to provide farmers with innovative financial solutions, mechanization support, and expert advisory services to improve farm…
By Xu Jun, People’s Daily As China convenes its annual “two sessions” – the gatherings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s legislative process has once again come under the spotlight. In China’s legislative system, the NPC and its Standing Committee serve…
By He Yin, People’s Daily China has unveiled a 2025 action plan to stabilize foreign investment, outlining 20 policy initiatives across four strategic priorities: phased expansion of autonomous market opening, enhanced investment facilitation, functional upgrades to open-economy platforms, and service system optimization. International observers have largely interpreted the move as reinforcing China’s commitment to institutional…
By Li Zheng, People’s Daily As the first quarter of 2025 unfolds, China’s innovation landscape reveals compelling patterns through three distinct regional narratives. The eastern tech stronghold of Hangzhou continues its ascendancy, while central China’s Henan province emerges as an unexpected cradle of commercial innovation, and western regions demonstrate growing cultural influence through cinematic achievements….
By Wang Yinxin, People’s Daily Tesla’s first overseas Megafactory, a sprawling 200,000-square-meter facility in Shanghai’s Lin-gang Special Area, commenced operations on Feb. 11, 2025, marking a pivotal expansion of the U.S. automaker’s global energy-storage ambitions. The site, equivalent in size to 30 standard football pitches, represents Tesla’s inaugural standalone Megapack production hub beyond American borders….
By Lin Lin, People’s Daily The abrupt collapse of electric vehicle maker Jiyue, hot on the heels of HiPhi’s decline, has ignited fresh scrutiny over the sustainability of China’s new energy automotive ambitions. Two urgent questions emerge: Do these failures signal systemic fragility? And what trajectory awaits the world’s most prolific EV market? Industry analysts…
By Shen Mengzhe At a Beijing symposium on private sector dynamism in mid-February, two figures symbolised China’s shifting entrepreneurial landscape: Wang Xingxing of Unitree Robotics and Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek. Born in 1990 and 1985 respectively, these founders epitomise a new wave of Chinese innovators reshaping emergent industries through boundary-pushing technologies. Their companies anchor an…
Islamabad, Pakistan — March 20, 2025 — SAP, a global leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, continues to revolutionize operations for International Textile Limited (ITL), one of Pakistan’s largest towel manufacturers and exporters. ITL has selected RISE with SAP to modernize its operations with a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. This transition will…
ISLAMABAD: Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Malik, Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination, chaired a meeting with the District Health Officer (DHO) Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and her team to review the progress of the District Health Office (DHO) on March 20, 2025, at the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination,…
ISLAMABAD– The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) have urged the government to increase the Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cigarettes by Rs. 39 per pack in the upcoming fiscal year, as part of the launch of the Tobacco Fact Sheet 2025….
