President Xi Jinping talks with residents in Zouzhuang, a village in Nanyang, Henan province, on Thursday afternoon. He was informed about the resettlement of people due to the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and measures to develop specialty industries and boost the incomes of resettled residents. Wang Ye / Xinhua
Xi: Enhance nation's water security
President Xi Jinping underlined on Friday the importance of furthering the planning and construction of follow-up projects of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in a scientific manner and bolstering the intensive use and conservation of water resources.
Paper moots CBDC use in cross-border payments
Global financial infrastructure managers are planning to involve central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, for cross-border payments, with interoperability key to international transactions, according to a research paper.
GBA making progress with solid growth
On Sept 1, 2019, to the accompaniment of the Cantonese folk song Moon Rising in the Rosy Clouds, China Media Group began allowing broadcasts by the first national radio station targeting audiences in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Census to help China prepare for challenges
Editor's note: The Pangoal Institution held a symposium, following the release of the results of the seventh census by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday, to discuss the turning points the data reveal, the economic signals they send, and the challenges and opportunities they create. Following are excerpts from some experts' observations:
Europe working hard to welcome back tourists
VALLETTA－With the improving rollout of vaccinations in Europe, confidence is growing around the possibility of a recovery in the continent's tourism industry.
China lifts national pride with space program's achievements
Editor's note: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, China Daily is publishing a series of stories on the changes and developments in various fields and industries.
Modi warns of virus spreading
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned people to take extra precautions as the country's devastating coronavirus outbreak is spreading fast to rural areas where nearly two-thirds of India's nearly 1.4 billion people live.
A LIFE IN PICTURES
American film scholar David Bordwell once commented that Hong Kong films are "all too extravagant, too gratuitously wild". Though it has been many years since Hong Kong cinema's "golden age" in the 1980s and 1990s, films being made in Hong Kong today are still depicting local culture while at the same time, inspiring a new generation of young local artists.
