For many non-Chinese who have spent a considerable amount of time in China, the taste of Chinese New Year lingers even after they leave the country.
Editor's Note: At a two-day international seminar on strengthening maritime trade infrastructure in Asia that ended on Feb 12 at Quanzhou in East China's Fujian province, more than 280 academics and experts from 30 countries and regions offered suggestions on how to build the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Below are excerpts from three participants' proposals:
The "Belt and Road Initiatives" embody China's economic diplomacy under the new leadership led by President Xi Jinping. In particular, the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road manifests China's recent economic diplomatic initiatives such as neighborhood policy, multilateral cooperation and energy diplomacy.
The European Union is following China's initiatives to develop a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road with considerable interest. The two projects have major geostrategic, political and economic implications that the EU (and the United States) cannot ignore.
Rarely has a party won 95 percent seats in a democratic election, certainly not in India. But that is exactly what happened in the election to the Delhi Assembly, results for which were declared on Feb 10.
Destabilization, that's what the Korean Peninsula, perhaps the whole of Northeast Asia, has been moving toward for the past year. Amid this scenario, China and the Republic of Korea have been developing a new mode of bilateral cooperation on security. And Defense Minister Chang Wanquan's three-day visit to Seoul that ended on Feb 5 has not only boosted this process, but also highlighted the importance of the frequent China-ROK interactions.
Is it necessary to add powdered gold to liquors? Should powdered gold at all be used as a food additive? And won't consumption of gold in any form harm human health?
China's efforts to regulate cyberspace have again been interpreted as restriction of freedom of speech. Such views stem from a misunderstanding based on long-term prejudice.
The Human Rights Watch annual report has continued its practice of criticizing the Chinese mainland and turning a blind eye to the progress it has made on the human rights front.
Broad fiscal revenue grew 7.2 percent last year, the slowest pace since 1991, underscoring both the pain of the economic slowdown and the growing tension between income and expenditure.
A pilot program for cross-border foreign exchange payments will be expanded to support the development of cross-border e-commerce and limit the risks associated with online payments involving foreign currencies, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange announced on Thursday.
China Minsheng Investment Co Ltd, the country's first national-level private investment firm, announced on Friday it will establish a global advisory council to help domestic enterprises go abroad.
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