Pharma Valley

The city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province in east China aims to build a “Chinese pharma valley” by 2030, according to a biomedical development conference held in the city on April 25.

The city plans to attract more than 10,000 bio-pharmaceutical enterprises with an industrial scale of over 1 trillion yuan ($141.2 billion) by 2030.

Encouraging the enterprises to set up regional headquarters in Suzhou, the city will offer a maximum subsidy of 60 million yuan ($8.5 million) to those companies that meet conditions.

The annual turnover of Suzhou’s bio-pharmaceutical industry has exceeded 170 billion yuan ($24 billion), and the city has attracted more than 3,000 bio-pharmaceutical enterprises.

The number of newly approved drugs in the city accounted for 3.6 percent of the country’s total in 2019.

Museum received more than 3 million views online.

Audiences enjoyed a blend of Western and Chinese melodies, along with an eyeful of the Terracotta Warriors that surround the tomb of the nation’s first emperor Qinshihuang, which is located in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province in northwest China, via live-streaming platforms.

The concert was presented by the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra (XSO) with classical music ranging from Tchaikovsky’s Stringquartetno.1in

Dmajor,op.11 to the Chinese violin concerto Thebutterflylovers .

“We choose to play classical works so that the music and the national treasures add radiance to each other in this unique concert hall,” Qin Zhifeng, head of the XSO, said.

Discovered in 1974, the Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures buried with Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.), who unified China for the first time.