Hangzhou's Blockchain Industrial Park is already attracting industry players, underlining the eastern city's leading role in advancing China's new economy, the city's mayor, Xu Liyi, said on Sunday. The city announced the park's launch on April 9 and said 10 blockchain technology companies had signed agreements, with many more expected to follow.
Since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, the number of international students at my school has skyrocketed to over 300, originating from 45 countries. We are planning to recruit more this year. Furthermore, the concept of the community of shared future, showing great foresight, will definitely gear up China's development as well as that of nations around the world. It will promote the realization of mankind's common goals, thus realizing a harmonious society and world.
Young participants in this year's China Daily 21st Century Coca-Cola Cup National English Speaking Competition offered deep insights into the themes of the Belt and Road Initiative and China's new era.
Most media, everywhere in the world, cater to their domestic audiences by stoking the fires of nationalism. This is no extraordinary insight: human beings, rooted in common evolutionary history, are territorial and tribal animals; we take pride in our home countries, just as we do in our home sports teams (the word "fan" is short for "fanatic"). Patriotism, taking pride in one's country, is laudatory and energizing, but if excessive, misdirected or blinding, it backfires and becomes counterproductive.
As trade tensions ratchet up between the world's two largest economies with US President Donald Trump directing the US Trade Representative last week to identify Chinese goods worth $100 billion for additional tariffs, some academics are trying to explain the chaos.
With the fourth industrial revolution prompting adjustments and changes in the global manufacturing industry, some developed economies, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Japan, have already worked out strategies to boost their manufacturing sectors.
The annual Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament is renowned for its party atmosphere, and last weekend's edition was no exception.
A retired doctor in Chongqing is helping visually impaired friends "see" the world by volunteering as a travel guide.
Amir Gal-Or has been avoiding crashes his whole working life - either in the cockpit of a plane or making investment decisions in his office.
Liu Tuchi has donated tens of thousands of books to rural children in five villages in southwestern China and built more than 15 reading rooms over the past 13 years - all with just the small income he earns collecting and selling trash.
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