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The CIIE is providing impetus to aid the economic recovery of countries along the Belt and Road (B&R), presenting opportunities for enterprises from these areas at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to uncertainties and challenges.
China has attained widely recognized economic success and promoted the well-rounded development of all its people during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), with decisive achievements on its path to building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
As the COVID-19 outbreak is still raging, the new market opportunities the CIIE can offer have become even more valuable amid a pandemic recession.
Arxan in north China's Inner Mongolia has cast off poverty by developing eco-tourism and industries that suit its local conditions.
As the world's first import-themed national-level expo, the CIIE embodies China's solemn promise to opening-up, and epitomizes its firm commitment to supporting economic globalization and building an open world economy.
It is at this special time of profound uncertainties that the third China International Import Expo (CIIE) is convened. Hosting such a trade event during the pandemic signals that China is getting back to normal and its economy is resilient. More importantly, it demonstrates China's sincere desire to turn its market of 1.4 billion people to a market for the world, and to contribute to global economic recovery.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), China has implemented 165 major projects, highlighting the country's progress in areas covering technological advancement, infrastructure development as well as social and cultural improvements.
China has outlined priority areas and measures for turning the world's second largest economy into a global innovation leader over the next 15 years, vowing to make major breakthroughs in key and core technologies.
The protection efforts, including measures to safeguard forests and reduce pollution from industries, have paid off, with tourism now an important pillar of Sanming's economy.
Flocking to this year's CIIE are returnees from past expos as well as new faces, including nearly 50 Fortune 500 and industry-leading companies, signaling a vote of confidence in China's further opening-up.
The CIIE Bureau said that more than 70 percent of the world's Fortune 500 companies and major players from different industries are returning to Shanghai for this year's edition of the expo, and dozens of companies have already signed up for the next three years.
To meet the country's target of eradicating absolute poverty by 2020, with no one to be left behind, Xi has in recent years visited 14 contiguous impoverished areas and inspected 24 impoverished villages in Hunan, Shanxi, Chongqing, Ningxia, Shaanxi and other provincial-level regions.
China has outlined the proposals of its 14th five-year plan, the latest development blueprint that sets the direction of the world's second-largest economy.
Shanghai has strengthened its position as one of the world's leading financial centers and is attracting some of Wall Street's biggest names despite trade tensions and the coronavirus pandemic, according to experts.
China has vowed to reach CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality ahead of 2060. To realize these goals, outlining measures to achieve the targets will be a significant step in the country's 14th Five-Year Plan.
Equipped with the country's tried and true emergency response tips, Xinjiang is responding to the latest epidemic with speed and sophistication.
China's new "dual-circulation" development pattern marks a major move for development for the coming years and is expected to be enshrined into the framework of the upcoming 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), said economists and experts.
Autumn in Beijing has long been considered the best time of year in the city, with cooler weather and golden falling leaves triggering a wealth of literary inspiration.
Distributors in the Changshu Garments Town are now no longer satisfied with the traditional offline transactions, jumping on the bandwagon of e-commerce livestreaming and making waves in the biggest clothing distribution center in east China.
The year of 2020 marks the end of China's 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020). Despite rising external challenges and the grave fallout from COVID-19, China has been committed to achieving the goals set in the plan with an all-out effort, winning applause from experts across the world.
China has made major achievements on its way to becoming a global power in air traffic with significant progress in the infrastructure sector.
Eight months after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Korean War broke out in June 1950. The flames of war soon reached the border river of Yalu and wreaked havoc in Dandong, then known as Andong, with buildings bombed and civilians killed. At the request of the DPRK, Chinese ground forces under the CPV entered the Korean Peninsula on Oct. 19, 1950 and fought the first battle on Oct. 25.
Donglin rolled out Taicang's first village cooperative of its kind a decade ago, covering about 150 hectares of high-grade farmland turning to advanced agriculture and industrial technologies.
With its swift response after local infections re-emerged, the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao has managed to safeguard China's success in epidemic control.
China has embraced its best quarterly economic performance of the year in the third quarter (Q3), rendering a 0.7-percent year-on-year expansion for the first nine months as the first major economy to return to growth following the economic fallout of COVID-19.
The 1,000-km-long mainstream of the Huaihe River originates in Henan Province and traverses Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. The Huaihe River basin also spans the provinces of Hubei and Shandong. Known as one of the most untamed rivers in China, it floods every three to four years on average.
In the tomb pits where the relics were discovered, some 15 conservator-restorers toil by day and night. Work tables are placed in the corners of the pits, on which gray-uniformed restorers arrange different sets of tools.
China's economic recovery picked up steam in the third quarter and the country is confident of sustaining the current momentum amid the effective control of the novel coronavirus and the government's sweeping efforts to stimulate demand and consumption.
China's major economic indicators entered positive territory in the third quarter of this year, showing the country's COVID-19 prevention measures and economic recovery remain at the forefront among the world's major economies.
An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) army entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953) opened Monday in Beijing.