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Experts emphasize cultural exchanges

Education experts said that enhancing cultural exchanges and fostering international mutual understanding can promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. They made the remarks at the Global Civilization Forum, organized by Beijing Foreign Studies University, on Saturday in Beijing. In his speech, Wang Dinghua, Party secretary of the university, emphasized the importance of dialogue in promoting international understanding and fostering people-to-people connectivity. The forum serves as a platform for people of different cultures to engage in dialogue and aims to deepen exchanges between China and other countries, as well as help contribute to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, he said, stressing the need to create global unity and cooperation.

China has 200m bicycles: association

China has over 200 million bicycles in use, which bolsters low-carbon travel, the China Bicycle Association said on Sunday, World Cycling Day. Chinese urbanites ride bicycles or electric-powered two-wheelers around 30 out of 100 times they travel. This cuts carbon emissions by around 10,000 metric tons per day across China, according to a survey conducted by the association in eight cities, including Beijing, Changsha, Hunan province, and Chengdu, Sichuan province. Adding to the trend, bike-sharing, centralized charging and battery swaps are increasingly popular in China with the help of big data and the internet of things. Bike-sharing service provider Hello Inc, said the number of registered users has kept rising in recent years.

Xinhua - China Daily