Beijing Review

China sets 2024 growth target, encouraging foreign investment

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Han Baojiang, head of the China Market Economics Society, said the GDP growth objective is both pragmatic and inspiring, indicating the Central Government's continued emphasis on the quality of growth.

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  • Han Baojiang, head of the China Market Economics Society, said the GDP growth objective is both pragmatic and inspiring, indicating the Central Government's continued emphasis on the quality of growth.
  • The Chinese economy is so large that any level of growth helps the folks in China, and it makes China a contributor to overall growth in the world.
  • The country will also strengthen services for foreign investors to make China a favored destination for investment.
  • Furthermore, efforts will be made to facilitate easier access for foreign nationals to work, study and travel in China.

How one CPPCC member contributes to mainland-Hong Kong integration

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

And it's the responsibility and the mission of Hong Kong people to make sure of that.

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  • And it's the responsibility and the mission of Hong Kong people to make sure of that.
  • CPPCC National Committee members have the right to ask the committee to convey their ideas to the Central Government.
  • According to Ling, every time a CPPCC member discovers a problem and presents it through the appropriate CPPCC channels, the government will try its best to find a solution and respond in a timely manner.
  • Last year was the first year of his five-year term serving as a CPPCC member.

Orchid Awards Honor Cultural Connectors

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

On September 8, Botton's decades of dedication were recognized by the inaugural Orchid Awards.

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  • On September 8, Botton's decades of dedication were recognized by the inaugural Orchid Awards.
  • Initiated by China International Communications Group (CICG) in 2022, the awards recognize non-Chinese individuals and organizations that have furthered international cultural exchange and advanced mutual understanding between China and other civilizations.
  • Botton was one of 10 recipients who received Orchid Awards at a ceremony in Beijing.
  • In 1985, Gantner became the cultural counselor at the Australian Embassy in China and worked on a wide variety of cultural activities.

Portuguese Edition of Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting Human Rights Launched in Rio de Janeiro

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

BEIJING, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the Launch Ceremony for the Portuguese edition of Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting Human Rights and the Seminar on Enriching the Diversity of Human Civilization to Promote Development of the Global Human Rights Cause was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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  • BEIJING, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the Launch Ceremony for the Portuguese edition of Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting Human Rights and the Seminar on Enriching the Diversity of Human Civilization to Promote Development of the Global Human Rights Cause was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting Human Rights, featuring nine themes, includes a series of important discourses by Chinese President Xi Jinping on respecting and protecting human rights.
  • The participants all agreed that the launch of the Portuguese edition of the book will help Portuguese readers fully and systematically understand the current situation and features of the development of contemporary China's human rights cause, and accurately grasp the theoretical connotation of Xi Jinping's discourses on respecting and protecting human rights in a scientific manner.
  • It will give a theoretical impetus to developing diverse human civilizations and promoting global human rights.

How Chinese modernization creates new opportunities for global development

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

"The CPC has upheld mutual learning among civilizations and driven Chinese modernization to benefit nations around the world.

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  • "The CPC has upheld mutual learning among civilizations and driven Chinese modernization to benefit nations around the world.
  • Instead, in the process of achieving domestic growth, it hopes to create more new opportunities for global development," CICG Vice President Lu Cairong said in his forum address.
  • The forum can help the international community better understand the CPC's advancement of Chinese modernization and see how the Party has always sought happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, Lu continued.
  • All shared their understanding of the Chinese path to modernization as well as their suggestions on how to better tell its stories to the world.

U.S. Scholar: A future of shared prosperity is the only way forward for humanity

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Friday, June 9, 2023

Excerpts from their conversation follow:

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  • Excerpts from their conversation follow:
    Ken Hammond: China takes the interests of all parties seriously and tries to find a path forward that minimizes conflict.
  • We need to be able to learn from that and apply the same ideas, the same principles to solving our problems in a way that then becomes mutually beneficial, becomes a future of shared prosperity.
  • We must find a way to advance what will raise the livelihoods of people all around the planet.
  • This vision of a future of shared prosperity for humanity, a future of mutual benefit [is important].

Macao entrepreneur Leong Ka-seng: In sync with Hengqin

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Friday, June 9, 2023

Fast forward eight years and Leong today is an entrepreneur with multiple businesses in interior decoration as well as the food and beverage industry.

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  • Fast forward eight years and Leong today is an entrepreneur with multiple businesses in interior decoration as well as the food and beverage industry.
  • Hengqin is a small island nestled in the southern part of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, right across the water from Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).
  • For the first two years of life in Hengqin, Leong worked as a business planner at a Macao company.
  • As travel between Macao and Hengqin becomes increasingly easier, Leong now drives back to Macao two to three times a week to see his family, and his family also visits him in Hengqin.

Balancing environmental protection and economic growth

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

However, in the 1980s, the lake became so polluted that it emitted a putrid smell.

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  • However, in the 1980s, the lake became so polluted that it emitted a putrid smell.
  • The Yangxi, one of the 18 rivers that originate from Cangshan Mountain and empty into Erhai Lake, flows through the village.
  • Through their analysis of the water samples, the team found the farmland contributed 35 to 55 percent of the pollution.
  • Hans Lambers, a fellow with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Australian Academy of Science, told Beijing Review that short-term benefits are too often pursued despite greater long-term losses, when asked about the difficulties in balancing economic development and environmental protection.

China's concept of a shared future

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Monday, March 27, 2023

Xi first proposed the concept in 2013, and five years later it was written into the preamble of the Chinese Constitution.

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  • Xi first proposed the concept in 2013, and five years later it was written into the preamble of the Chinese Constitution.
  • Scholars have cited the term as an indication of China's shift from a more nation-centered to a more global-oriented foreign policy.
  • In this sense, the expression is consistent with reality—the reality of the present and the inescapable reality of the future.
  • The new era, a post-hegemony era, of a global future will advance or humanity risks ceasing to exist.

Setting the bar for economic growth

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Monday, March 20, 2023

"The growth target is achievable in light of China's average annual GDP growth rate of 6.2 percent in the past 10 years.

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  • "The growth target is achievable in light of China's average annual GDP growth rate of 6.2 percent in the past 10 years.
  • China's economic rebound is having a significant positive spillover effect on the regional growth of Asia, Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the IMF, said.
  • Srinivasan further said during the International Finance Forum One-on-One Global Dialogue on March 3 that a 1-percentage-point increase in China's growth leads to a 0.3-percent growth in output level across Asia.
  • China's final consumption expenditure contributed more than 50 percent to domestic economic growth in 2022, which is low compared with developed countries.