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      Zimbabwean president arrives in Beijing

      2024-09-02 18:59 Last Updated At:19:37

      Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in Beijing on Monday to attend the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which will be held in the Chinese capital from September 4 to 6.

      The president's plane landed at the Beijing Capital International Airport at 15:45 local time.

      China and Zimbabwe enjoy profound traditional friendship and political mutual trust, and China has strongly supported the Zimbabwean people in their struggle for national liberation. Zimbabwe established diplomatic relationship with China on the very day of its independence, and the two countries will mark the 45th anniversary of the relationship in 2025.

      The two countries have seen frequent high-level visits to each other. In April 2018, China became the first non-African country that Mnangagwa visited after he took office as the president, and during his visit, China-Zimbabwe relations were elevated to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. In September of the same year, he went to China again to attend the 2018 FOCAC Beijing summit.

      China is Zimbabwe's largest source of investment and its third largest trading partner, and large lithium mines and steel plants invested by Chinese enterprises in Zimbabwe have been put into operation in succession.

      The renovation and expansion project of Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, with financing support from China, is nearing completion. China's "small but beautiful" projects like the Juncao technology assistance are in full blossom in Zimbabwe.

      The upcoming FOCAC summit will be held with the theme "Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future."

      Many African leaders, including Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the African Union Commission, will lead delegations to the summit. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend as a special guest, and relevant international and regional organizations will participate as observers.

      President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech at the summit’s opening ceremony on September 5.

      Following the 2006 FOCAC Beijing Summit, the 2015 FOCAC Johannesburg Summit, and the 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit, the upcoming summit will be another happy reunion for the friendly family of China and Africa. It will also be the largest diplomatic event hosted by China in recent years.

      Zimbabwean president arrives in Beijing

      Zimbabwean president arrives in Beijing

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      Festive consumption heats up in China as Spring Festival approaches

      2025-01-21 20:59 Last Updated At:21:47

      As the Spring Festival holiday approaches, rural fairs and popular markets in China are seeing a surge in activity as vendors prepare to meet the increased demand for goods and services during the eight-day celebration.

      The Spring Festival, which marks the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year, is the biggest annual holiday in China, when people across the country return to their hometowns for Lunar New Year celebrations and family reunions. This year, it falls on Jan 29, ushering in the Year of the Snake.

      In Zaozhuang City of east China's Shandong Province, the rural market is already filled with a strong festive atmosphere. People are busy buying couplets and other goods for the Spring Festival, with stalls displaying a dazzling array of products and vendors' shouts filling the air.

      The market, which has a history of over 100 years and is held on the forth and ninth days in China's lunar months, has attracted residents from nearby to join in the lively celebrations.

      In Luoyuan County of Fuzhou City in east China's Fujian Province, the locally produced yellow croakers are in high demand. Fisherman said 20 million yellow croakers have been freshly harvested and are now available for purchase.

      "The fish were put into the lake in spring of 2023 and have now grown to an average weight of about 8 liang (about 0.4 kilograms) each," said Huang Jianfeng, a local fish farmer.

      Meanwhile, gold sales continued to boom despite the soaring price, about 634 yuan (over 86 U.S. dollars) per gram as of Monday, as many Chinese consumers buy gold products before the Spring Festival for good luck, or for investment.

      Staff at a gold store in Shenzhen of south China's Guangdong Province said that this year is a lot busier than before.

      "There has been a great increase in the number of customers and sales this year. At the beginning of last year, we could still cope with the guests. But we feel that we are obviously too busy this year," said Cai Yihan, staff member of a gold store in Shuibei, Shenzhen's renowned gold and jewelry district.

      The demand for fresh flowers has also reached its annual high in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

      In its provincial capital Kunming's Dounan Flower Market, which accounts for 70 percent of China's national fresh-cut flower trade, its sales peak is expected to last for about three weeks.

      This year, new varieties like tulips are gaining popularity and are likely to become the most sold in China, according to the Van den Berg Roses Planting Base in Kunming, a rose grower brand from the Netherlands.

      In addition, due to reduced exports from the Netherlands, the main source of tulip imports, China's domestic tulip prices have risen by one fourth compared to last year.

      The increased market demand has led to a significant boost in income for local flower farmers.

      "The strong market demand has led to a 5 percent increase in income for local farmers compared to previous years," said Guo Xinggang, production manager of the Van den Berg Roses Planting Base.

      Festive consumption heats up in China as Spring Festival approaches

      Festive consumption heats up in China as Spring Festival approaches

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