BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- It is China's annual "two sessions" time again. In the following week or so, for anyone interested in observing and understanding China, the political event is something they don't want to miss. I am an American who has been living in China for four deca...
These four cities are called China’s“Four Furnaces”. “火炉城市”的标准是一年中最高气温超过35℃的日子达到20天以上,并出现过40℃以上的高温天气。 The standard of "furnace city" is that there are more than 20 days in a year whe...
-one of China's poorest areas - twenty years ago. The teacher wondered why many girls in her class would just one day stop coming to school. After some investigations, Zhang learned that they were from very poor families. These girls were forced to work or get married at a young age."...
China is the world's second largest economy after the United States.To some extent,to observe China's"two sessions"is actually to observe Chinese economy.One of the major tasks of the"two sessions"is to map out China's annual economic development,set the growth target,and announce macroeconom...
Whatis“poor”?Whatis“rich”？ThecitiesofChinaarejustlikeEUROPE.ThecountriesofChinaarejustlikeAFICA.WHAT?!Areyoukiddingme?EastAfricanGreatRiftValley Theysay…“收入差距过大，会损害社会公平正义，挫伤低收入群体的劳动积极性和社会认同感，既不利于经济健康运行，也不利于社会和谐稳定。”——《时事报告》“收入...
Regarding the former point of ecological collaboration, this is another reason the PRC attained ecological progress as highlighted in an article in Xinhuanet, titled “Xiplomacy: Xi on China’s Pursuit of High-quality Development”. The article stipulates that under “Xi’s leadership”, it is ...
China is home to approximately 1.41 billion people, making it the most populous country in the world.1Thelaw of supply and demandtells us that since the supply of workers is greater than the demand for low-wage workers, wages stay low. Moreover, the majority of Chinese were rural and lowe...
Chinese homeowners are rushing to pay off home loans ahead of schedule amid a downward spiral in housing prices, poor returns on investment alternatives and a sharp fall in mortgage rates. In China, mortgage rates can be either fixed or pegged based on the loan prime rate (LPR). Those choos...
In the past decades, especially in the past ten years, great transformations have happened in China's rural areas, which may shed light on the path of narrowing the rich-poor gap for other countries. After living in China for such a long time, one thing that I can't ignore is the blu...
aid to the Pacific Island countries is to strengthen its influence in the Pacific region to counter China. In the past two years, the EU declared an agreement with Namibia to build a green hydrogen project in the Zio-Keib National Park and pledged an investment of 5 million euros (5.3 ...