#China will provide emergency aid to #earthquake-struck #Türkiye & #Syria, with a first batch of aid worth 40 mln yuan ($5.9 mln) to Türkiye & relief supplies to Syria, an official from the State Council's int'l aid agency said on Tuesday.
China's #RedCross has given each of Türkiye & Syria $200,000 in aid, said Deng Boqing, deputy head of the China International Development Cooperation Agency. (official website: cidca.gov.cn/2023-02/07/c_1…)
More than 4,000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured after strong earthquakes jolted parts of Türkiye and neighboring Syria early Monday.
Based on the 2022 province #GDP numbers, today's piece offers a window into how several aspects of #China's #economic development have performed over the previous year, which could provide them an advantage in the post-#pandemic recovery. 🧵(1/12): gingerriver.com/p/top-dogs-rat…
1) South China’s Guangdong Province and east China’s Jiangsu Province still led the way, remaining as the only two major economic powerhouses with their gross domestic product (GDP) exceeding 10 trillion yuan (about 1.47 trillion U.S. dollars). (2/12)
Guangdong has ranked first for 34 consecutive years, while Jiangsu has come second for 30 years in a row. (3/12)
#Chinese President #XiJinping on Tuesday stressed the importance of correctly understanding and vigorously advancing 中国式现代化 Chinese modernization. 🧵1/9
Xi said Chinese modernization is a new model for human advancement, and it dispels the myth that "modernization is equal to Westernization," presents another picture of modernization, 2/9
expands the channels for developing countries to achieve modernization, and provides a Chinese solution to aid the exploration of a better social system for humanity. 3/9
#Chinese President #XiJinping on Wed. talked about the country's #COVID response, saying the light of hope is right ahead, "We have now entered a new phase of COVID response. Tough challenges remain, but the light of hope is right in front of us. Perseverance means victory," 1/9
Xi made the remarks when he talked via video link with medical workers and an elderly patient at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province ahead of the Spring Festival. 2/9
The country had made "the right choice" to deal with the #COVID epidemic with strict measures over the past nearly 3 years, Xi said, adding that #China has thus withstood several rounds of outbreaks of virus mutations. 3/9
"Some may believe that lifting #China's #COVID restrictions in June/July of 2023 is the best time & there will be few respiratory illnesses. But protection of active immunity provided by vaccination will have declined by that time in elderly population," said Liang Wannian,🧵1/5
head of the #COVID19 response expert panel under the NHC, in a recent interview in response to why China chose to optimize its COVID policy in #winter. He claimed that a thorough analysis led to the conclusion that the restrictions should be lifted in the winter.2/5
"If we do not change the #COVID policy in the winter, it may (or may not) reduce some of the superimposed effects, but the virus of this disease is now #Omicron, a variant strain with low pathogenicity," Liang said. 3/5
There is a decline in emergency & critical care peaks in #China's large cities, while small & medium-sized cities & rural areas will soon experience peaks in emergency & critical care, said Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission in a recent interview. 1/6
There will not necessarily be an increase in #COVID infections during Spring Festival. Still, there may be increase in emergency&serious illnesses in small&medium-sized cities&rural areas, Jiao noted, saying that infection rates have reached a certain level in these regions 2/6
Jiao said that "from the typing of clinical cases of #omicron in #China in 2022, the proportion of pneumonia in the common type of COVID-led illnesses is relatively low, less than 10%, which is about 8%." 3/6
@AlibabaGroup announced a 125 million yuan ($18 million) donation to equip each of #China's more than 600,000 village clinics with two finger-clamp #oximeters, effectively achieving full coverage in rural areas against #COVID, said official account of Alibaba on Weibo🧵1/12
The donation was made under the direction of China's Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Ministry of Industry & Information Technology, & the National Health Commission (NHC), said the account on Saturday. 2/12
The Chinese government issued a general plan on Dec. 30 to strengthen #COVID epidemic prevention & control in #rural areas, said an official in a press conference on Saturday. 3/12