BEIJING: Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, has called for efforts to revitalize global development partnerships. “First, we must stay development-oriented and revitalize global development partnerships,” Fu stated on Monday, on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative, during the general debate of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. “Currently, global progress …

Goose liver, or foie gras, a delicacy often associated with France, has become a specialty of Linqu county, Weifang city, east China’s Shandong Province. The county processes 5 million Landes geese annually, producing 5,000 tonnes of goose liver. Linqu supplies goose livers to premium hotels and restaurants in over 30 Chinese provinces and cities. They also reach dining tables in …

Train 4347, a slow train travelling from Tonghua to Ji’an, northeast China’s Jilin Province, has been in operation since 1939. It is the only train connecting the two places. Spanning a distance of 115 kilometers, the train completes the journey in two hours and 48 minutes, with an affordable fare of just 16.5 yuan (about $2.27). The train carriages’ ceilings …

QUETTA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced that 28,000 tube wells in Balochistan will be solarised to provide farmers with cheap electricity, on behalf of the federal and provincial governments. The premier arrived at Quetta airport earlier today for a one-day visit, where he was received by Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti and Balochistan Governor Jaffar Khan Mandokhail. …

GUJRAT: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Thursday announced mega projects for Gujranwala, including the Gujranwala Metrobus Project, worth Rs18 billion, the first state-of-art cardiac hospital and a burns unit in the city. During her visit to Gujranwala on Thursday, she also ordered the construction and repair of small and big roads of the city. Former CM and current Prime Minister …

Nanchang Railway Station, a major transportation hub in east China’s Jiangxi Province, handled nearly 6.79 million passenger trips in the first five months of 2024, according to data from China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group. The station, which initially had only two platforms, five tracks, and a small waiting hall, has undergone extensive renovations over the past few decades. It now …

A tantalizing aroma from bunches of red, round cherry tomatoes fills the air inside an intelligent greenhouse of a company in Kekedala city, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. These cherry tomatoes are cultivated using soilless techniques, with sensors installed throughout the greenhouse, said Tang Yue, executive director of Runtai Agricultural Technology Development Co., Ltd. Leveraging digital technologies and Xinjiang’s …

Researchers carried out a “physical examination” of various types of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs at the analytical test center of the research institute under Sichuan Neo-Green Pharmaceutical Technology Development Co., Ltd. located in Pengzhou city, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. “The test center provides pretreatment preparation for various experiments on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), covering areas such as heavy metal detection, …