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Clifftop villagers resettled in town as part of China’s poverty reduction campaign

Shan Jie May 19, 2020

Clifftop villagers resettled in town as part of China’s poverty reduction campaign

Villagers of Atuleer on Tuesday waved goodbye to their life above the clouds. Atuleer drew worldwide attention a few years ago for being perched on top of a cliff 1,500 meters above sea level in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Urban life awaits the villagers further down the hill...more

Prioritizing human rights helps China defeat COVID-19: experts

Hu Yuwei May 19, 2020

Prioritizing human rights helps China defeat COVID-19: experts

China prioritized human rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring people’s lives and health in a people-centric approach, and therefore achieved the results of quickly taking the epidemic under control, experts stressed in an international conference entitled “ Guarantee of the Right to Life in Epidemic Prevention and Control...more

E. China’s Shandong Province aims secure quantum communications, building network

Left Review Online May 18, 2020

E. China’s Shandong Province aims secure quantum communications, building network

Beijing, China. Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong Province aims to build up a secure quantum fiber link connecting the province, ramping up efforts to nurture the nascent cutting-edge technology to world-class level. Jinan's mayor Sun Shutao said in a local government report that the city, aiming...more

Issues to be settled for East Asia to stabilize industrial chain

Zhang Yansheng May 18, 2020

Issues to be settled for East Asia to stabilize industrial chain

All three major production networks in the world - East Asia, North America and Europe - have encountered economic fallout from the deadly COVID-19. Regions more deeply involved in globalization with more complex technique requirements and closer international divisions of labor are being hit harder by the virus....more

China’s aviation transport plunges over 60% in April: CAAC

Left Review Online May 17, 2020

China’s aviation transport plunges over 60% in April: CAAC

Beijing. Both cargo and passenger transportation in China's aviation sector plunged over 60 percent year-on-year in April as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, though the decline narrowed with Chinese economic and social activities on a recovery trajectory, official data showed on Wednesday. The country's aviation industry...more

An elaboration of my advocacy for why China needs more nuclear deterrence

Hu Xijin May 15, 2020

An elaboration of my advocacy for why China needs more nuclear deterrence

I welcome the criticism of my call for China to expand the number of its nuclear warheads. Here is my response to those criticisms. First, to advocate that China increase the number of nuclear weapons is itself anti-peace. Some people holding this view are idealistic and have a...more

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Greetings to Russian President Putin

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Greetings to Russian President Putin

Kathmandu. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Saturday sent a message of greeting to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation on May 9, 2020. In his message, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un extended his...more

New Pyongyang General Hospital for the people-oriented Public Health Service – Kim Jong Un

Left Review Online May 12, 2020

New Pyongyang General Hospital for the people-oriented Public Health Service – Kim Jong Un

Comrades, The Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee and the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, both held recently, made an analysis of the situations facing our revolution and put forward correct fighting modes, tasks and...more

Holiday economy rebounds in China

Wang Cong May 11, 2020

Holiday economy rebounds in China

China on Tuesday marked a milestone in its efforts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, as over 100 million tourists flocked to popular attraction sites across the country during the just-concluded May Day holiday and spent billions of dollars, all while averting a much-feared resurgence of COVID-19 cases....more

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

Wen Sheng May 11, 2020

Birth of coronavirus still a mystery, blame game needs to be averted

The birth of the lethal COVID-19 remains a mystery, as French virologists have determined a male patient near Paris who was diagnosed with pneumonia on December 27, and actually was infected with the novel coronavirus. This is a stunning scientific find. The Frenchman, in his 50s who has...more

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

Left Review Online May 11, 2020

COVID-19 spread in emerging markets brings in new round of shocks to global economy

As the coronavirus pandemic is seeing an accelerating situation in emerging markets, the third round of hits to the global economy is shaping up and emerging market economies will encounter tougher challenges. Although the spread of the COVID-19 has seen flattened curves in Europe and the US, with...more

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

Yang Kunyi May 11, 2020

RCEP may be signed by year-end, probably without India: Experts

The downward pressure posed by COVID-19 on the member countries of the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), as well as China's relatively early economic recovery, may encourage progress on regional economic cooperation and lead to an agreement being signed by year-end, according to experts, but the process...more

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Message to President Xi Jinping

Left Review Online May 9, 2020

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Message to President Xi Jinping

Kathmandu, May 8. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sent a verbal message to Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, in connection with the fact that China is registering success in preventing the...more

China turns a page with two sessions to convene in May: Chinese Media

Global Times editorial May 9, 2020

China turns a page with two sessions to convene in May: Chinese Media

This year's two sessions, China's most important annual political events, will convene on May 21 and May 22, according to an official announcement made on Wednesday. On the same day, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei announced they would lower their emergency response to the COVID-19 epidemic from the top...more

President Kim Il Sung and Burchett

Left Review Online May 6, 2020

President Kim Il Sung and Burchett

President Kim Il Sung (1912–1994) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea maintained close relations with many foreign figures in his lifetime. Among them was Wilfred Burchett, an Australian writer and journalist. In October 1975, when he met Burchett, Kim Il Sung said to him: You have devoted...more