Guo Zhonghua, vice-director of the Policy Studies Department of the China National Coal Association, said it is the first quantitative index system on green coal capacity cooperation put forward by China.
HARBIN - As China is adding investment to revive the "rust belt" in its northeastern provinces, Russia is also looking to boost the economy in its Far East, which brings tremendous opportunities for the two geographically adjacent regions, experts and government officials said at a high-level forum at the 4th China-Russia Expo which closed Monday. Andrey Ostrovsky, deputy director of Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the Russian Far East covers 36 percent of the country's territory, but has less than 5 percent of its population. It is rich in natural resources but poor in infrastructure, similar to China's northeastern region. "Strengthened cross-border cooperation has become a feasible alternative to help promote regional development on both sides," said Ostrovsky, who is also vice chairman of Russia-China Friendship Association. He said the development of Siberia and the Far East is one of the most complicated tasks for the Russian government, and integrating these areas into the Silk Road Economic Belt building is an important way for them to share the benefits of cooperation and development with Asia-Pacific countries. Over the past years, the development of the Far East has increasingly become a national strategy and top agenda for the Russian government, which has established a ministry to take charge of it. Alexander Galushka, minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, said Russia and China have shared interests in the development of the region. The cooperation between the two countries in developing it largely contributes to the pairing of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union. "The Russian Far East is adjacent to China's northeastern provinces, but has limited land transportation infrastructure. More overland cross-border infrastructure is required to make full use of the geographic advantages in commerce and trade between the two areas," the minister said. The two countries have made progress in infrastructure cooperation. Currently, they are building the Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang railway bridge and Blagoveshchensk-Heihe road bridge, which will provide China with convenient access to seaports and the Russian Far East with an additional cargo base. Galushka said a "China commercial service center" is planned to assist Chinese merchants doing business in the area. According to the minister, about 20 joint commercial projects are being implemented in the Russian Far East, involving agriculture, petrochemical engineering, raw materials, logistics and tourism, and another four are under discussion. The total investment of those projects are estimated at about billion. "There is huge potential for commercial cooperation between China and Russia in the Far East. If fully tapped, the aggregated investment is expected to top 60 billion dollars," the minister said. Vladimir Miklushevskiy, governor of Russia's Primorsky Territory, said the territory has the longest stretch of Russia's land border with China, which is a competitive advantage in further building business ties with the neighboring country.
HONG KONG - Around 1.83 million tourists visited Ngong Ping 360 in 2018, a famous tourist attraction in Hong Kong, up 75 percent from 2017, Ngong Ping 360 operator told the press on Tuesday.
Guo made the remarks on Friday, as some laborers from Hubei were found having difficulties in finding a job or being fired without a reason after the outbreak has been controlled in the Chinese mainland and many industries have been gradually recovering.
Guangxi has been promoting the construction of transportation infrastructure in recent years, with the international gateway port in Beibu Gulf taking shape.
Guizhou, with 176,200 square kilometers of land - 92.5 percent of which are mountains and hills - was a main battlefield in the fight against poverty. In 2012, Guizhou had the highest number of impoverished people in China, Xinhua reported.
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HAIKOU -- The actual use of foreign capital in South China's island province of Hainan reached over 5 million in January, surging by over 366 percent year on year, local commercial authorities said.
Guests greet each other at a gathering on Wednesday celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Guangdong province. FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY
HANGZHOU -- Zhou Shuaibo loves sniffing his orange Tabby cat and spends hours playing with his pet every day.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday backed the Education Bureau's decision to strip a primary school teacher of his registration, saying a thorough investigation showed the educator had used Hong Kong independence materials in his classes.