Your next dish, package or takeout could arrive at your doorstep via a Chinese-made robot, as delivery robots have developed rapidly in the country and are now venturing into overseas markets. On a short holiday in Singapore, I noticed a server robot at a restaurant busily swerving between tables and fetching dishes to hungry diners.…
Visitors gather around humanoid robots on display during an industry expo in Beijing. LI MUYI/FOR CHINA DAILY In Ningbo, East China’s Zhejiang province, Chinese new energy vehicle manufacturer Zeekr, which is part of Geely Holding Group, a prominent automaker, welcomed its first humanoid robot “intern” to its factory recently. With a height of 170 centimeters and…
In a recent interview with #ChinaPerspectives, Huang Hanquan, head of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, said Chinese policymakers should consider mulling a batch of new incremental policies. On the fiscal policy front, China can optimize the utilization of existing funds and explore ways to revitalize government assets. On the monetary policy front, there is…
In a recent interview with #ChinaPerspectives, Ye Hailin, dean of China-Africa Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that Chinese people often say, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Therefore, the fundamental purpose of promoting…
CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in July unveiled a series of measures to reform the country’s fiscal and tax system, which has pointed the way toward a new round of reforms. Historically, such reforms have achieved their expected goals and laid the…
Tom Alweendo (fourth from left), minister of mines and energy of Namibia, and Zhao Weiping (center), Chinese ambassador to Namibia, accompanied by executives of CNNC, CNUC and Rössing, attend a ceremony to mark the launch of its 2023 sustainable report and the fifth anniversary of CNUC’s majority shareholding. CHINA DAILY China Nuclear Uranium Corporation, or CNUC,…
China plans to allow wholly-owned foreign hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and seven other cities or regions, the Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday. Foreign hospitals will be allowed to set up wholly-owned hospitals in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing in Jiangsu province, Fuzhou in Fujian province, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong province as well as the…
File photo shows an exterior view of the People’s Bank of China in Beijing, capital of China. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — China’s foreign exchange reserves totaled 3.2882 trillion US dollars as of the end of August, up by 31.8 billion dollars, or 0.98 percent compared to the end of July, official data showed Saturday. China’s foreign exchange…
In a recent interview with #ChinaPerspectives, Ye Hailin, dean of China-Africa Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that some Western media outlets are attempting to hype up the narratives of “neo-colonialism” and the “debt trap diplomacy” regarding China’s engagement in Africa. This actually shows that the West is undergoing economic setbacks in…
Eyeing advanced use of more green power, China’s leading beverage producer, Wahaha Group, recently initiated a series of maintenance operations for its solar power station in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. The photovoltaic, or PV, plant, with an installed capacity of 4,692 kilowatts, is expected to generate approximately 4.6 million kilowatt-hours of energy annually. The adoption of…