A closer look at China's economic steadiness, vitality and potential
The coordinated development in Beijing and neighboring regions is now in full swing and has grown into a new driving force for China's development, nine years after China launched a key strategy to build the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional city cluster.
The Palace Museum has cooperated with social organizations and sci-tech enterprises to enhance its capacity for cultural exhibition, and communication and tourism services. It also combines traditional restoration techniques with modern science and technology to continuously improve its heritage protection capacity.
Many top economies have lately reported significant growth of trade with China in 2022 with some figures even hitting record high, showing ever closer trade links and supply chain collaboration between China and the rest of the world.
Three years into the fight against COVID-19, China declared a major and decisive victory in its response to the pandemic.
China has been making huge strides in shifting from its dependence on coal to renewables for power generation, a boon to achieving the country's "dual carbon" goals and tackling the global climate change.
Foreign enterprises remain adamant in ramping up investment in the Chinese market, as the immense potential in economic vitality and consumption backed by an optimized COVID response strengthened their confidence in the world's second-largest economy.
China's pilot free trade zones and the Hainan Free Trade Port are expected to adopt deeper reforms and conduct more systematic trials in key and frontier areas, such as the services industry, according to experts and government officials.
Since December, the catering sector in China has witnessed a fast recovery for dine-in business and delivery services, as well as precooked products, after the authorities announced optimized COVID-19 control measures.
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By the end of the 2024-2025 ice and snow season, China's ice and snow leisure tourism sector is expected to receive over 520 million visitors, with its revenue exceeding 720 billion yuan (about 106 billion U.S. dollars). Xinjiang, which boasts favorable natural conditions and multiple high-standard ski resorts, has taken the starring role in the booming industry to become one of the country's most popular winter tourism destinations.
According to data from the National Administration of Cultural Heritage (NCHA), the number of museums in China had reached 6,183 by the end of 2022, over twice as many as in 2012. In 2021 alone, 395 new museums were added to the administration's records.
As China looks to spur the economy, several provinces and cities have announced their lists of major projects for this year and doubled down on their investment.
Chinese people's rekindled passion for traveling abroad over the Spring Festival holiday has displayed the growing vitality of the Chinese economy and added optimism for the world to pull through from the economic downturn.
Faced with the impacts of multiple unexpected factors, China's economy withstood the pressure and maintained overall stability.
China has avoided the inflation shock that afflicted most Western economies last year, despite multiple challenges such as mounting imported inflationary pressures and the resurgence of domestic COVID-19 cases.
As the unleashed pent-up travel demand has brought back a Spring Festival travel rush unseen for three years, China's transport sectors are making all-out efforts to ensure smooth and safe journeys amid optimized COVID-19 response.
Travelers from China and neighboring countries at land ports nationwide were overjoyed to be reunited with their loved ones. Local officials and businesses also welcomed the return of customers and goods, along with the hustle and bustle at border cities.
In December 2022, China set out a plan that envisages the creation of the world's largest national park system by 2035. The plan includes a total of 49 candidate sites for the construction of national parks.
China is expected to pursue greater domestic reforms and tariff cuts as it strives to join important international trade agreements and unleash the potential of high-level economic opening-up, experts and business executives said.