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Since the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed in 2013, as of the end of July this year, the mainland has signed more than 200 cooperation documents with 149 countries and 32 international organizations to jointly build the "Belt and Road", forming more than 3,000 cooperation projects. Looking back on the past nine years, the "Belt and Road" has shifted from the "big idea" of the layout of the plot to the "work stroke" of intensive cultivation, and is becoming a "development belt" that benefits the world and a "happy road" that benefits the people.
The ambassadors of Greece, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates and other nine countries in China were interviewed by the Beijing News to talk about the "Belt and Road", focus on the impact and role of the "Belt and Road", and discuss the development of state-to-state relations and the "Belt and Road" cooperation.
"In 2018, Greece became the first EU member state to join the Belt and Road Initiative, which is an affirmation of the high level of bilateral relations between the two countries and opens the door to more cooperation between the two countries in the future." Georgios Iliopoulos, Greece's ambassador to China, said in an exclusive interview.
Iliopoulos mentioned the role of the "Belt and Road" in promoting the development of the Greek port of Piraeus. Located in Piraeus, Attica Region, Greece, Piraeus Port is the largest port in Greece and a model of cooperation between China and Greece in jointly building the "Belt and Road". In 2021, the turnover of the Port of Piraeus reached a new high.
Belarusian Ambassador to China Yuri Senkoh said that the total foreign trade in goods and services between Belarus and China will reach nearly $6 billion in 2021. China retains Belarus' position as its second-largest trading partner (after Russia). Despite the epidemic prevention restrictions and the challenges faced by foreign economic enterprises, in the first half of 2022, the trade volume between Belarus and China increased by 10.3% year-on-year. The international trade turnover between the two countries has increased nearly 30-fold over the past six or seven years.
This achievement is due to a series of cooperation between the two countries under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative is a great initiative initiated by China, of which Belarus is a part of it, the first European country to support the initiative and an active participant in the initiative.
Ali Zahiri, Ambassador to China of the United Arab Emirates (hereinafter referred to as "UAE"), believes that the Belt and Road Initiative has had a significant impact on both international trade and economic development. The initiative makes trade easier and more efficient. At the same time, its role is not only reflected in trade. As an unprecedented platform, the Belt and Road Initiative facilitates exchanges in policy, infrastructure, financial investment, culture and trade.
The Belt and Road Initiative is an acceleration of infrastructure construction. The initiative has pushed the UAE to build and improve infrastructure such as transport corridors, warehousing units, trade centers, etc. Although the original intention of this series of construction was to promote trade, in fact, many fields such as technology, communications, cultural exchange, tourism and education have benefited.
After years of development, the "Belt and Road" has connected Asia and Europe and crossed Africa, becoming the world's longest span and most potential cooperation belt and the world's broadest and largest international cooperation platform.
From the perspective of trade in goods, from 2013 to 2021, the cumulative scale of China and countries along the "Belt and Road" has reached nearly 11 trillion US dollars, and the annual trade volume continues to reach a new high; At the same time, direct investment in countries along the Belt and Road has also grown against the trend, with a cumulative total of more than US$160 billion.
The "Belt and Road" has shown strong resilience and vitality in the "serial tests" such as the outbreak of the epidemic and the global economic recession. In the case of the flow of production factors is blocked, to a certain extent, it has played an indispensable role in maintaining regional and even international industrial supply chains and value chains. As a global public good, the Belt and Road Initiative will play a more important role in the global economic development after the epidemic.
At the same time, China's construction of a new development pattern of "double circulation" is expected to empower the "Belt and Road" industrial chain. With the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, it is in line with the law of economic development, and is also conducive to the "Belt and Road" industrial and economic projects to enhance resilience, promote the coordinated economic development of various regions of the mainland, and rationally distribute the industrial distribution, providing a spatial basis for creating a global value chain led by enterprises and upgrading the external value chain.
Behind each spacecraft launch, there is a group of spacecraft assembly technicians, and Jiang Xu is also one of them. As a special technician, Jiang Xu has participated in the assembly of spacecraft such as Tiangong-1 and Qingtian Experimental Module.
Jiang Xu introduced that spacecraft assembly is different from conventional industrial assembly, and its technical requirements are higher. The price of the equipment is very high, so be especially careful. And the design of spacecraft equipment mainly considers the ease of use in space, which brings certain challenges to ground assembly. The spacecraft launch is a special moment for Jiang Xu, in addition to being happy, he will also feel reluctant and nervous.
A few days ago, the first department named after the metaverse of domestic universities made a fashionable appearance. The concept of the metaverse has been controversial since its inception, and the college department has named it after it, leaving netizens a little confused. The rigor of discipline setting and professional employment prospects in colleges and universities are also worrying. In the final analysis, it is the work of universities to focus on improving talent training and academic research quality.
According to reports, the Department of Information Engineering of the School of Artificial Intelligence (College of Future Technology) of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology was renamed the Department of Metaverse Engineering, becoming the first department in a domestic university to be named after the Metaverse. Colleges and universities set up meta-cosmic departments, which belong to the autonomy of colleges and universities. However, the establishment of the meta-universe department, whether it is to chase the fashionable hype or the future-oriented innovation, requires the school to answer with practical school actions.
The renaming of faculties and the establishment of new disciplines is an administrative matter, but also an educational and academic affairs, which should be fully demonstrated by the professor's committee and the academic committee according to the school's positioning, school-running conditions, and changes in the society's demand for talents, and in the process of argumentation, widely listen to the opinions of teachers and students.
Renaming the department to the Department of Metaverse Engineering could lead three directions. One trend is to only change the name, without substantial changes; Another direction is that the school lacks scientific system planning around the concept of metaverse; There is also a trend that the department has become a leader in the field of meta-universe, whether it is talent training or academic research, it has been recognized by domestic and even international peers. We want the third to be the picture that the future presents to us.
If we want not to go astray and truly run the Department of Meta-Universe Engineering, we cannot engage in conceptual innovation without being flashy, nor can we toss it in the name of innovation, but must face the future and focus on improving the quality of talent training and academic research. Read the full >>>
Six weeks later, the United States is about to enter the midterm elections, which is regarded as a "midterm exam" for the Biden administration. Inflation, immigration problems, reproductive rights... Today, Democrats control the House of Representatives and have a slim advantage in the Senate. The answers handed over by the Democratic Party will directly affect the efficiency of the Biden administration in the next two years.
Recently, Harris, who was appointed by US President Biden to oversee immigration affairs at the U.S. border, still claims "border security" in the face of record immigration. As soon as this statement came out, Texas Governor Albert directly leveraged Harris. In the days that followed, the two parties again quarreled over immigration. Albert criticized the Biden administration for ignoring the crisis. Democrats have fought back against irresponsibility in transporting immigrants, accusing Republicans of using immigrants as pawns for political manipulation.
In fact, immigration is not the primary concern of current American voters. According to the latest polls, inflation is the biggest concern for voters in the upcoming midterm elections. In addition, since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the issue of reproductive rights has shaken the electoral landscape to some extent.
The Republican Party may be in a worse position than expected. Some media pointed out that due to the abortion judgment of the US Supreme Court, Trump's judicial disputes, and the far-right tendencies of candidates, although they hold the "economic card", the slogans played by the Republican Party in the midterm elections are obviously not enough. According to reports, Republicans want to seize the opportunity of the immigration crisis to put Democrats at a disadvantage, so that immigration issues like abortion rights and inflation will become the main issues driving voters.
Tough measures against illegal immigrants also run the risk of backlashing out or attracting criticism at home and abroad. But Wang Yong, a professor at Peking University's School of International Relations and director of the Center for American Studies, believes that for the Republican Party as a whole, the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. These actions have been carefully calculated by politicians, and American politics is highly polarized, and the two parties are incompatible, and only such measures can attract attention and consolidate the support of the basic voters of their own party.
Biden's polling support is beginning to pick up, and in the polls of the midterm elections, the Democratic and Republican ratings are comparable, but this may not change the disadvantages faced by the Democratic Party. For now, Democrats temporarily control the House of Representatives and have a slight advantage in the Senate. After the midterm elections, the next focus of both parties will go straight to the 2024 presidential election. For now, the situation in both parties is unclear. Read the full >>>
81-55 victory, the second place in the Chinese women's basketball team to advance to the quarterfinals! On September 27, the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team ushered in the last opponent of the group stage, the Belgian women's basketball team, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team won, I believe they will bring more outstanding performance next.
Before the match, both teams had locked up their qualifying spots. The Chinese women's basketball team opened the point difference in the fourth quarter and finally won the opponent 81-55, locking in the second place in the group.
Post-match technical statistics showed that the Chinese women's basketball team scored in double figures. Huang Sijing 10 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals, Li Meng 16 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Li Yueru 11 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, Wang Siyu 11 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals, Han Xu 10 points, 6 rebounds and 2 caps, Yang Liwei 8 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, Wu Tongtong 6 points, Pan Zhenqi 7 points and 4 boards. Read the full >>>
At the post-match press conference on September 26, a media reporter asked whether the Chinese team was very watchable and the data was amazing, was the head coach satisfied? 'That's what we need to train and it's the style of our team, it's always been trained that way. Zheng Wei, head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, replied.
Zheng Wei said that every game will be very hard, because everyone's strength level is very close, especially in terms of physical fitness, it will be a test, "adjust as soon as possible, make full preparation for the difficult games in the future, and strive to play every game well." Read the full article>>>
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