By Xu Peiyu Nowadays, an increasing number of overseas consumers prefer to buy Chinese products on Chinese cross-border e-commerce platforms. According to a recent report by a third-party market analysis firm, Chinese e-commerce platforms claimed half of the top 10 most downloaded shopping apps worldwide in 2023. SHEIN, a China-based international fashion e-commerce platform, ranked…

By Li Zhen, People’s Daily Artificial intelligence (AI) education is gaining momentum in China. China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) recently announced a list of 184 primary and secondary schools selected as AI education bases, with the aim of better promoting the development of AI education. Six schools in Beijing were on the list, including Beijing…

By Liu Zhiqiang, Ding Yiting, People’s Daily At the construction site of a futuristic village demonstration project in Huangpu district, Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province, prefabricated components of house structures were hoisted into place, and soon, 200 green, low-carbon and livable residence buildings would rise from the ground. In a prototype room, Fan Zesen, deputy…

By Li Kaixuan, People’s Daily On a morning in Chongzhou, Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province, Wang Lingli opened an app on her phone. Seeing that the temperature was 14°C with no rain expected for the next two hours, she grabbed her drone and headed out the door. As a professional agricultural manager, Wang leads a…

By Jiang Feng, Zhang Yunhe, Song Haoxin, Zhang Danhua, People’s Daily Serving as a vital connection between the Silk Road Economic Belt, the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC), which runs through the western part of China, is rapidly expanding. According to the latest…

By Gong Ming, Xie Yahong, Yan Yunming, Liu Hui, People’s Daily Over 2,000 years ago, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) began to spread and gain popularity along the ancient Silk Road, becoming an important aspect of commercial and trade exchanges between China and other countries. Today, TCM has reached 196 countries and regions, gaining greater influence…

By Zhao Dong Since 5G was commercialized in 2019, the number of 5G users around the world has exceeded 1.5 billion, making it an important driving force for high-quality economic and social development. With the continuous iteration of telecommunications technology and emergence of new terminals and business models, 5G-Advanced, also known as 5G-A or 5.5G,…

By Gu Yekai, Yang Yanfan, People’s Daily Beijing-based Xuanwu Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University and a team at Tsinghua University successfully implanted a wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) processor into the skull of a paralyzed man during a clinical trial this January, significantly recovering his motor skills. Thanks to the implantation, the man is now…

By Li Zong, People’s Daily Recently, China issued a document on further optimizing payment services and enhancing payment convenience, with an aim to better meet the diverse payment needs of senior citizens and foreign travelers. How do foreigners in China feel about their current payment experiences ? Let’s find the answer with David Van de…

By Li Xinping, People’s Daily The Xi’an Guojigang Railway Station in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi province, is the railway station that sees the most trips made by China-Europe freight trains across China. It is designed to handle 5.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and transport 66 million tons of cargo via railway each year. At…