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Logistics Growth The logistics sector sustained steady growth during the first three quarters of the year, as reported by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing on October 29. In this period, social logistics rose 5.6 percent year on year to 258.2 trillion yuan ($36 trillion), the federation said. Within social logistics, industrial products logistics increased 5.6 percent, while logistics for renewable resources climbed 10.1 percent. Additionally, social logistics costs grew 2.3 percent year on year to 13.4 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion), according to the federation. The ratio of social logistics costs to GDP was 14.1 percent, a slight decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared to the same period last year. The logistics industry’s total revenue in the January-September period stood at 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion), a 3.7-percent year-on-year…

In a world bound by shared challenges and evolving aspirations, China and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are forging a transformative partnership. What began primarily as economic interaction has developed into a comprehensive cooperative partnership rooted in cooperation, mutual respect and long-term progress. Today, China is LAC’s second largest trading partner. As their relationship intensifies, both sides are seeing mutual benefits in economic growth, cultural exchange and infrastructure projects, signaling a shift toward a new global collaboration. The LAC region, comprising 33 independent countries with a population exceeding 640 million, spans over 20.7 million square km, about 13.8 percent of the world’s total land area. Renowned for its abundance of natural resources, the region holds one third of the world’s arable land and nearly a quarter…

The recent BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, was a remarkable success. It featured record attendance, insightful discussions and an ambitious outcome. Delegations from 36 countries and representatives of six international organizations participated. Leaders from eight BRICS member countries took part in the event in person, and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended via video link due to an illness. Given BRICS’s main objectives and the successes it has achieved so far, many influential countries from the Global South have expressed interest in membership in the group. Russian President Vladimir Putin said over 30 countries have indicated their willingness to join “in one form or another.” He added that it would be unwise to overlook the unprecedented interest from these nations. Nevertheless, he also emphasized that current BRICS members…

Wang Shun, a world swimming champion, has reached the pinnacle of his sport, yet he continues to push himself every day, striving to shave off mere tenths of a second from his times. He is also a “big kid” who loves superheroes and can build Lego at “world-champion” speeds—once completing a 4,210-piece model of Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City in just six hours. Lu Ye is a journalism professor at the Shanghai-based Fudan University. In front of her classes, she commands respect as an articulate and engaging teacher, but off the podium, her imagination knows no bounds. She dreams of cranking her Lego Retro Radio up to maximum volume and dancing to its beat, and even envisions giving her Lego Mona Lisa a guitar so she can rock out…

The Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on October 30. Around 6.5 hours after takeoff, the spacecraft’s crew, including veteran taikonaut and commander Cai Xuzhe and new taikonauts Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, arrived at China’s Tiangong space station. Their mission is the fourth crewed flight in Tiangong’s application and development phase, and the 33rd flight of China’s manned space program.…

BELARUS Artists perform during a fire show at the botanical gardens in Minsk on October 26 ZIMBABWE Protestors rally against U.S.-imposed sanctions on the country in front of the United States Embassy in Harare on October 25. They vowed to camp outside until the sanctions imposed more than two decades ago are removed unconditionally FRANCE Barcelona’s Spanish soccer player Aitana Bonmati (left) and Manchester City’s Spanish player Rodrigo Hernández Cascante kiss their trophies during the 2024 Ballon d’Or France soccer award ceremony at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on October 28 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO An Armed Forces helicopter crashes on the runway of Ndolo Airport, a secondary airport in Kinshasa, on October 30 UNITED STATES Mourners gather for the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting in Lewiston,…

This year is the 10th anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposal of a China-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) community with a shared future. Over the past decade, the China-LAC relationship has ushered in a new era characterized by equality, mutual benefit, innovation, openness and more benefits for the people. Reviewing bilateral ties from a historical and cultural perspective, six aspects of affinity can be identified. It is this inherent closeness, embedded in the hearts and minds of the people and passed down through civilizational development processes, that provides strong public support for vigorously advancing China-LAC relations in the new era. First, both enjoyed histories of independent development. President Xi has emphasized that the Chinese nation boasts a legacy spanning thousands of years of humanity, 10 millennia of culture…

In a recent interview with China Hoy, a Spanish-language monthly magazine, Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and professor and researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Republic in Uruguay, shared her insights on the various aspects of the China-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) relationship. Edited excerpts of the conversation follow: China Hoy: How do you view the current global environment and the role that LAC countries or the region as a whole play in this context? Karina Batthyány: The current situation is that the relationship between global powers that defined the world as unipolar after the Cold War has undergone a transformation. The emerging new powers mainly come from the developing world and they are vying for…

‘What percentage of China’s energy comes from solar and hydropower?” On the evening of October 14, the day they arrived in China, members of a cultural and media group from Brazil posed this question at the dinner table. After learning that “as of June 30, the installed capacity of renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro and biomass) in China had reached 1.653 billion kilowatts, accounting for about 53.8 percent of the country’s total installed capacity,” they nodded in satisfaction and continued their meal. This group of nine renowned Brazilian cultural and media professionals were invited to China to engage in cultural exchanges in Beijing, Sichuan Province, Zhejiang Province, and Shanghai from October 14 to 25, under the DiscoverChina: Brazilian Cultural Figures’ Tour, which was co-hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG)…

Incentivizing Parenthood China on October 28 introduced new birth support policies aimed at fostering a more family-friendly society as the country confronts the demographic challenges of a rapidly aging population. A directive from the State Council, China’s highest state administrative organ, outlines 13 targeted measures to enhance childbirth support services; expand childcare systems; strengthen support in education, housing and employment; and promote a birth-friendly social environment. The policy extends maternity insurance coverage to workers in flexible employment and rural migrant workers already participating in the urban workers’ basic medical insurance scheme. Additionally, local authorities are urged to ensure effective implementation of maternity, childbirth reward, paternity and childcare leave policies, providing new parents with greater confidence in taking time off work. A childbirth subsidy system will be established, along with increased…

Sun Haijing, an employee in the after-sales service department of CRRC Corp. Ltd., the world’s largest supplier of rail transit equipment, reflected on his experiences in Brazil as he rode Line 13-Jade from Guarulhos Airport this summer. Five years ago, he was present at the line’s inauguration, at which the station platform buzzed with energy, packed with people capturing the moment with cameras and camcorders. Line 13-Jade, which debuted as South America’s first airport metro line, connects downtown São Paulo to the city’s Guarulhos Airport. The electric multiple unit trains, manufactured by CRRC for São Paulo’s commuter rail operator, Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM), were poised to enter service in September 2019. At that time, Sun, then just 29, was dispatched to Brazil to oversee equipment debugging and delivery.…

A leisurely stroll around Yundang Lake in Xiamen, located in Fujian Province in southeast China, unfurls a landscape where waves undulate gently and egrets gracefully glide across the water. Amid the stream of people enjoying the lakeside, one man stands out for his continuous observation of the lake’s ecosystem. He is Chen Yajin, a 65-year-old retiree. Formerly a teacher at a local middle school, he is now serving his community as a “citizen lake guardian.” “Something’s floating here. Pick it up,” Chen said. Noticing some fallen leaves on the lake, he immediately asked the staff on the cleaning boat to remove them. “Look, we barely see any garbage here,” he said, gesturing toward the trash can on the cleaning boat, which was mostly filled with fallen leaves. “This is my…

In ancient times, today’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was known as the Western Regions, signifying the western frontier of China. In 138 B.C., Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-A.D. 220) sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to establish contact with the Western Regions. In 60 B.C., the Han formally included Xinjiang into Chinese territory by establishing the Western Regions Frontier Command. An exhibition at the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum in Urumqi, the region’s capital, illustrates Xinjiang’s history and its longstanding connections with the rest of China. Comments to yanwei@cicgamericas.com…