Daily Archives: January 29, 2023

2023-01-29: News Headlines

____ (2023-01-29). 6 tourists trapped in Hainan mountains saved by firefighters during Spring Festival. ecns.cn Six tourists trapped in Wuzhishan (aka Five Finger Mountain) in south China's Hainan were successfully saved by firefighters on Monday afternoon after 21 hours.

____ (2023-01-29). Herd immunity impedes spread of COVID-19 in China: expert. ecns.cn With most people in China having been infected with COVID-19, herd immunity has been reached and the transmission ability of the epidemic gradually weakens, said Fang Bangjiang, a doctor from Longhua Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, on Friday.

____ (2023-01-29). 6 tourists trapped in Hainan mountains saved by firefighters during Spring Festival. ecns.cn Six tourists trapped in Wuzhishan (aka Five Finger Mountain) in south China's Hainan were successfully saved by firefighters on Monday afternoon after 21 hours.

____ (2023-01-29). Herd immunity impedes spread of COVID-19 in China: expert. ecns.cn With most people in China having been infected with COVID-19, herd immunity has been reached and the transmission ability of the epidemic gradually weakens, said Fang Bangjiang, a doctor from Longhua Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, on Friday.

____ (2023-01-29). 133rd Canton Fair to resume offline exhibition in mid-April. ecns.cn The 133rd China Import and Export Fair, or the 133rd Canton Fair, will resume offline exhibition on April 15 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, said Chu Shijia, director of China Foreign Trade Center, on Saturday.

____ (2023-01-29). Per capita disposable income in Shanghai, Beijing exceeds $10,000 in 2022. ecns.cn Over 20 provinces and municipalities in China have released per capita disposable income data for 2022, with figures in Shanghai and Beijing exceeding 70,000 yuan (about $10,300), far ahead of other provinces and municipalities.

____ (2023-01-29). Gwadar to act as business hub of Pakistan: traders. ecns.cn Traders from Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province have said the coastal city of Gwadar will act as a business hub of Pakistan under the project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, an official statement said.

____ (2023-01-29). Chinese mainland Taiwan affairs official meets former KMT chairperson. ecns.cn Song Tao, head of both the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, met on Saturday with Hung Hsiu-chu, former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province.

____ (2023-01-29). China to boost economic rebound, stabilize foreign trade, investment. ecns.cn China will continue to focus on its economic and social development and facilitate the steady recovery and growth of its economy at the beginning of this year, according to a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday.

____ (2023-01-29). China's Lushan Scenic Area announces free admission for all. ecns.cn Lushan Scenic Area in east China Jiangxi province on Saturday announced free admission from Feb. 1 to March 15 for visitors from across the globe.

____ (2023-01-29). Zhang Yimou's latest movie sparks controversy amid box office success. ecns.cn Full River Red, the latest historical suspense comedy film directed by Zhang Yimou, has topped China's seven-day Spring Festival holiday box office rankings, raking in 20.93 billion yuan as of Sunday.

____ (2023-01-29). China records 226 mln passenger trips in Spring Festival holiday. ecns.cn About 226 million passenger trips were made during the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, official data showed Saturday.

____ (2023-01-29). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

____ (2023-01-29). Torch festival held to celebrate Chinese New Year in Guangdong. ecns.cn Villagers attended a celebration of a torch festival in Yangmei village, Jieyang City, southern China's Guangdong Province on Friday.

____ (2023-01-29). Hundreds of blossom-headed parakeets spotted in SW China. ecns.cn Hundreds of rare blossom-headed parakeets have been spotted in Ruili City, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, setting a new record for the species' population observed in China.

____ (2023-01-29). China's homegrown C919 makes first flight in the Year of the Rabbit. ecns.cn The world's first C919 domestic aircraft of the China Eastern Airlines, flight number MU7817 landed smoothly at Nanchang Changbei International Airport in east China's Jiangxi Province on Saturday.

____ (2023-01-29). China sees 308 million domestic trips during Spring Festival holiday. ecns.cn This year's Spring Festival holiday has seen 308 million domestic trips, up 23.1 percent year-on-year, recovering to 88.6 percent for the same period in 2019, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday.

____ (2023-01-29). China's Spring Festival box office tops $998.5 million. ecns.cn

Hans Bohler, Klaus von Dohnanyi (2023-01-29). There is nothing to fear from China. indybay.org Non-interference in the affairs of other states and emphasis on what united them for mutual benefit were thus an important element of Chinese notions of cooperation from very early on, just as in Chinese philosophy existence presupposes coexistence. Individual rationality was supplemented in China early on by relational rationality.

____ (2023-01-29). China speeds up post-holiday production with renewed vigor. ecns.cn In Shanghai, more than 30 operators worked with a giant shield tunneling machine of 14.5 meters in diameter to form a solid lining structure at a tunnel construction site.

____ (2023-01-29). 2, 0 km high-speed rail lines to operate across China in 2023. ecns.cn

____ (2023-01-29). They Say: China has kept the world economy going. ecns.cn

____ (2023-01-29). Chongqing sees strong tourism rebounds during Spring Festival holiday. ecns.cn Popular scenic spots such as Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street and Hongyadong attracted many tourists and citizens. The average daily flow of people in the Jiefangbei Central Business District reached 518,000.

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