Offshore wind turbines are pictured in the waters of Laizhou City, East China's Shandong province, Jan. 7, 2025.
As Beijing looks to marking the 80th anniversary of victory in World War II this year, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao has called on people in Japan and around the globe to jointly safeguard justice, the postwar international order, and world peace. In an interview on the sidelines of this year's two sessions, the annual meetings of China's top legislative and political advisory bodies, Wu, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also urged Tokyo to reject malicious competition directed at China and work together to uphold multilateralism and the global free trade system.
As a frontier window between China and member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has unique advantages for establishing a hub for artificial intelligence cooperation with ASEAN, which will inject momentum into the building of a China-ASEAN community with a shared future, said Chen Gang, Party secretary of Guangxi. Not only is Guangxi located at a critical juncture between the huge market of China, which has 1.
When a 78-year-old quantum physics professor goes viral "dissecting "Schroedinger's cat on short-video platform Douyin, when silver-haired models from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, strut defiantly at Paris Fashion Week, and when musicians with an average age of around 70 ignite standing ovations on stages overseas, it is further evidence that China's "silver economy" is rewriting the rules of aging. Far from a niche market for retirement homes and stairlifts, this $4 trillion revolution has become a cultural reckoning — one where pensioners aren't just spending money, but creating whole new markets that are likely to be a greater force in the economy.
