CHANGSHA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the 'father of hybrid rice,' who passed away on Saturday.Despite being a busy work day, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site before the service began at 10 a.m. in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province.The top rice scientist, who in 1973 developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain, died of organ failure at 91 in Changsha.The agronomist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice, which has reached its third generation, helping China work a great wonder -- feeding nearly one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total arable land.His lifelong dedication to reducing hunger made him a household name in China, where getting enough to eat was once a serious problem. In 2019, Yuan was awarded the Medal of the Republic, China's highest state ...
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President urges greater promotion of country's high-quality developmentPresident Xi Jinping has urged the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to make greater efforts to support and encourage enterprises to produce innovations to contribute to the country's high-quality development.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark during his three-day inspection tour in the region that concluded on Tuesday.While visiting Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co in Liuzhou on Monday, Xi said that only innovation can help the equipment manufacturing industry become stronger and a front-runner.He said that high-quality development is the route that the Chinese economy must take during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, and high-quality development of the equipment manufacturing industry is the top priority.The manufacturing industry is indispensable for building a modern socialist country and...
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President Xi Jinping reiterated on Wednesday China's commitment to firmly uphold multilateralism and safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law.Xi spoke as he received credentials presented by 29 new ambassadors to China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Siddharth Chatterjee, the new UN resident coordinator in China, also presented his letter of appointment to Xi.Xi welcomed the ambassadors and asked them to convey his good wishes to the leaders of their countries.He said that the Chinese people have stood firmly together with people of different nations to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, marking a new chapter in international friendship and cooperation.This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the start of China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), as well as the nation's new journey to build a modern socialist nat...
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Efforts stressed to step up east-west pairing-off modelPresident Xi Jinping has urged steps to optimize the practice of eastern and western provincial areas pairing off to help each other in order to carry forward the momentum of poverty elimination, accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and promote rural vitalization.In an instruction published on Thursday, Xi highlighted the need to adapt the program of East-West Pairing-off Cooperation for Poverty Reduction, whereby a developed province in the east assists a less-developed region in the west, to the new situation and circumstances.The program, together with central departments offering assistance to designated poverty-stricken areas, is a major decision by the Communist Party of China Central Committee to promote the coordinated growth between regions and common prosperity, said Xi, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.He called for steps to focus on consolidating the outcomes of poverty r...
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Major e-commerce sites such as Alibaba Group's Taobao and JD.com have pulled products related to retailer H&M after the company sparked widespread fury on Wednesday evening for its previous statement that it is 'deeply concerned' about reports of 'forced labor' in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.Several Chinese celebrities, including actor Huang Xuan, and singer and actress Song Qian, announced around the same time on Wednesday that they have terminated contracts with the global clothing brand, and 'steadfastly object to' any action aimed at smearing or spreading misinformation about China and its people.In an earlier statement published on its official website, H&M said due to 'reports from civil society organizations and media that include accusations of forced labor and discrimination of ethnoreligious minorities in Xinjiang,' the company does not work with any garment manufacturing factories from Xinjiang and does n...
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In the spring of 2021, the 'two centenary' goals converge at this time. The fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress and the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference were successfully held in the spotlight.In recent days, discuss the state affairs together with the delegation of Inner Mongolia and Qinghai, attended the plenary meeting of the delegation of the PLA and the armed police force, visited the CPPCC medical and health circles, and the educational circles, and participated in the joint meeting. They also communicated with the representatives of the CPPCC members in an in-depth manner and shared the national interests. Based on the new development stage, the implementation of the new development concept and the new development pattern, Xi Jinping promoted the development of high quality. Make a series of important expositions to build a high-quality life, and gather the unremitting f...
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Xi calls for persistent efforts from Party to continue winning people's supportXi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has encouraged young officials to faithfully pass on the Party's glorious traditions and fine work style and strive to make new accomplishments in the country's journey to build a modern socialist nation.He also underscored the need for young officials to keep improving their willpower, perseverance and self-control, while addressing the opening ceremony of a study session on Monday at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC attended by young and middle-aged officials.The Party must make persistent efforts to give play to its glorious traditions and fine work style if it is to continue to win the support of the people, said Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission.He warned of difficulties and challenges ahead even as China has secured historic achievements in bui...
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BEIJING - An article by Chinese President Xi Jinping on promoting socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics will be published Monday.The article by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's fifth issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee.The article calls for sticking to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and promoting the modernization of China's governance system and capacity in line with the rule of law, to provide strong legal guarantees for building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.Noting that remarkable progress has been made in promoting law-based governance since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, the article sets forth 11 requirements for current and future work in that cause, including upholding Party leadership ...
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Meeting discusses draft documents for upcoming session of top legislatureA key Party meeting held on Friday outlined China's priority tasks during the period of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), and called for efforts to ensure a head start in fully building a modern socialist country.The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, discussed the draft 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035, as well as the draft Government Work Report.The draft documents will be submitted for deliberation at the upcoming fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, which opens in Beijing next week.Meeting participants said that the period of the 14th Five-Year Plan bears great significance in terms of expanding the country's achievements in build...
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The Party's leadership of its grassroots organizations should be strengthened to increase its efficiency of governance, according to a key Party meeting on Thursday.Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.The participants reviewed four reports on such issues as primary-level governance, the Party's disciplinary inspection work and the work of the leading Party members' groups of the top legislature, central government, top political advisory body, top court, top procuratorate as well as the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.Modernization of the system and capacity for primary-level governance was highlighted at the meeting as important work concerning the Party's governance foundation and the security of State power.A statement released after the meeting said a number of requirements were listed. These include strengthening the Party's leade...
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Emphasis on commitment to support joint response to challenges earns praisePresident Xi Jinping's speech at the World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda on Monday has made clear China's commitment to upholding multilateralism and injected impetus into the world's joint response to challenges, global experts said.In his special address, Xi said the problems facing the world are intricate and complex and that the way out of them is 'through upholding multilateralism and building a community with a shared future for mankind'.He also expressed opposition to the building of 'small circles' and starting a new Cold War, because these acts, as well as efforts to 'reject, threaten or intimidate others, to willfully impose decoupling, supply disruption or sanctions, and to create isolation or estrangement will only push the world into division and even confrontation'.There have been more voices in the US academic community calling for an end to t...
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