ISLAMABAD: The education ministry and Google announced a “strategic collaboration” to improve access to education and support the development of a digital ecosystem for learning, wa ith the agreement also aimed at reducing the number of out-of-school children across the country. This was announced by Google for Education and the Ministry of Federal Education on Thursday during an event, according …
By focusing on key desert fringe areas and taking innovative, scientific and comprehensive measures for wind prevention, sand and desertification control, as well as dust suppression, China has made a promising start to its campaign to tame desert areas and created a model of sand control and desertification prevention and control. Last year, China initiated a battle against sand in …
Southwest China’s Yunnan Province is the largest coffee producing area in the country, accounting for 98 percent of the national total production of coffee. In Pu’er city, large-scale coffee cultivation has a history of nearly 40 years. Jin Tao is a local in Paliang village, Mengma township, Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County, Pu’er city. In the 2023-2024 harvest …
An increasing number of Chinese foreign trade companies are building overseas warehouses, shortening the distance between goods and their target markets. Guangdong Eagle Gifts Co., Ltd. based in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, has long been devoted to producing various kinds of ceramics, Christmas balls, decorative paintings, and other handicrafts. Overseas warehouses have greatly helped the company’s exports in recent …
At the Fuling high-tech zone in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, staff members can grasp the situations of more than 20 planting bases of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs across the country, including real-time footage and information such as temperature, humidity, and wind direction at these bases, through a pharmaceutical company’s traceability platform. The company, Chongqing Taiji Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (Taiji …
Construction of a “photovoltaic Great Wall,” consisting of row upon row of blue solar panels, is underway deep in the Kubuqi Desert in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Upon completion, the “photovoltaic Great Wall” will stretch across hundreds of kilometers. The “photovoltaic Great Wall” is also a “Great Wall” of green electricity, industries, innovation and prosperity, said Zhong Yuzhan, …
After completing more than two months of quarantine and acclimatization, the beloved giant panda Fu Bao officially met the public on June 12 at the Shenshuping giant panda base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Fu Bao returned to China on April 3 from South Korea’s Everland Zoo, where it …
BEIJING: China is the world’s largest cherry market, and Pakistan has reached a significant milestone by exporting its first shipment of fresh cherries to China. Utilizing a reefer container, Pakistan aims to export 260 tonnes of fresh cherries to China in reefer containers by the end of June. This achievement is a result of a phytosanitary agreement signed between China …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economy failed to meet most of its targets set in the previous budget due to challenging conditions, but the agriculture sector achieved unprecedented growth, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb announced on Tuesday while unveiling the Pakistan Economic Survey (PES) 2023-24. The strong 6.25pc expansion in the agriculture sector — said by the report to be the highest in 19 years — drove Pakistan’s …
ISLAMABAD: In a return to previous practice, the National Economic Council (NEC) decided on Monday to continue funding constituency-based schemes and ongoing provincial projects, while approving an indicative national development plan worth Rs3.792 trillion for the next fiscal year to increase the economic growth rate to 3.6 per cent from the current 2.4pc. The expansionary public investment stance is likely to come under tight …