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Triumphant march of diplomacy
Since airing on China Central Television from Monday, the sixepisode political documentary, Major Country Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics, has sparked heated discussions among people while receiving rave reviews for its panoramic portrayal of China’s diplomatic achievements under the leadership of the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core.
The documentary focuses on the new diplomatic concepts, thoughts and strategies put forward by Xi, and highlights the process of China’s rise on the global stage and its role as a contributor to global peace. With China becoming the second-largest economy and growing in national strength, major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics has become all the more important, especially because global issues today cannot be resolved without China’s participation.
Since being elected as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in late 2012, Xi has played a proactive role in international affairs through a series of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic activities held in China as well as other parts of the world. Xi’s creative push for building a community of shared destiny and advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, his concept of using “friendship, sincerity, reciprocity and inclusiveness” to improve global governance, expedite development and strengthen security, and his Chinese resolutions to global issues have won China praise from the international community.
Guided by Xi’s major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, China has consistently stood up for peace, stability and justice, and consistently taken measures that suit its status as a promoter of world peace, contributor to global development and protector of the world order. Under the leadership of Xi, China has already become an epitome of positive energy across the world and its global status and influence have reached unprecedented levels.
Walk alone to walk fast, walk together to walk far. True to this Chinese saying, China, under the guidance of Xi’s major country diplomacy, will always pursue an expanded “circle of friends” and broader partnerships with other countries, so that it can share with them opportunities created by China’s unprecedented economic development and build a community of shared destiny that values peace, development and prosperity. Published by: Tel: Fax: Subscription: Advertising: Printed by: — XINHUA NEWS AGENCY
Sanjiangyuan contributes 25 percent of the water in the Yangtze River, 49 percent in the Yellow River, and 15 percent in the Lancang River (upper half of the Mekong River).
The mining industry, however, has almost destroyed the vegetation in the reserve, laid the massif bare, and the deserted mines, including open-cast mines, have become sources of pollution, expediting the melting of glaciers and disappearance of lakes. As a result, the region has become one of the worst cases of environmental disaster.
Halting all mining activities is the first step toward cleansing the environment — not the ecology per se — as it will take decades, if not centuries, to just stabilize it.
In 2014, Duozhi county in Qinghai sought a special fund of 38 million yuan ($5.76 million) from the higher authorities to initiate the ecological restoration
The report seems contrary to what car owners in Beijing say — for long they have been complaining about the lack of parking space during the day.
The city needs to take proper measures to ensure all available parking spaces are optimally used. For example, in many residential communities, the parking spaces can be sold to “outsiders” whose workplaces are in the neighborhood, so that after the community residents leave for work in their cars, their parking spaces, instead of lying vacant, can be used by the “outsiders” to park their cars.
Also, some car owners illegally install devices in public parking spaces to ensure only they can use them. Besides, the number of parking places in Beijing’s public buildings is as high as 1.47 million, but only 580,000 are used at night, because many of
In the new textbooks for primary and secondary schools to be used in China from Friday, the period of the Chinese People’s War Against Japanese Aggression has been extended from eight to 14 years.
The Ministry of Education, China’s top education authority, decided to revise the contents of the Chinese People’s War of process, but its application is yet to be approved.
If the government continues to ignore the serious wounds inflicted on the fragile environment and ecology of the area, the pollutants from the deserted mines will soon compromise the health of the entire region, not only contaminating the water in the three rivers but also reducing volume. In other words, the longer the ecological restoration project is delayed, the more difficult it will be to breathe life back into the area.
The owners of the illegal mines that operated in the natural reserve for years, along with the industrial and environmental supervisors and the administrative officials who allowed them to operate must all be held accountable.
And the central government should consider allocating a special fund to help Qinghai start the ecological restoration project as soon as possible. those are not open to the public.
To solve the parking problem, the illegally installed devices in public parking spaces should be removed, so that other car owners can use them. For that, however, law enforcers have to swing into action.
And government agencies and other public institutions should open their parking lots for public use, which will allow people who live in communities nearby to park their cars there at night.
Some may worry how to keep track of the number of cars and manage the parking lots, but technology has already taken care of that problem. Almost every parking lot today has smart devices that automatically detect how many cars have entered and how many parking spaces are available. What is needed is to use them more efficiently.
14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Chinese and history textbooks for students receiving compulsory education. In the previous Chinese textbooks, the war of resistance lasted eight years — starting on July 7, 1937, when Japanese troops bombed the Marco Polo Bridge and Wanping county in Beijing, and ending with Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II on Aug 15, 1945.
According to the new textbooks, which scholars and historians have supported, the war of resistance began on Sept 18, 1931, when Japanese troops blew up a section of a railway in Shenyang, Northeast China’s Liaoning province, and attacked the Chinese garrison in the city, marking the beginning of Japanese occupation of China’s northeast region.
The new textbooks give a detailed historical account of the 14-year Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), starting from the regional war of resistance against Japanese aggression to the launch of the comprehensive anti-Japanese war that ended in China’s victory.
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