Russia said on Wednesday that its forces had continued to strike Ukrainian military targets, while Ukraine reported the same day that it had repelled multiple Russian attacks.
A statement from the Russian Defense Ministry said the Russian troops struck a Ukrainian tactical missile production enterprise, a workshop building producing small bombs for drones and other strategic objectives.
Meanwhile, Russian military operations targeted Ukrainian personnel and military equipment in multiple locations, including Kharkov, Donetsk and Lugansk, while the Russian air defense systems shot down over 300 Ukrainian drones.
Furthermore, the ministry accused the Ukrainian government of four attacks on Russian energy infrastructure over the past 24 hours.
On the same day, the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that its forces had repelled the Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk direction.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian forces continued to launch operations in the Kharkov and Sumy regions, but Ukrainian military's actions in Russia's border region of Belgorod can prevent the Russian forces from launching new attacks in the Kharkov and Sumy directions.
He also noted that in the past 24 hours, Russia launched 55 drones towards targets in Ukraine, with multiple residential areas being attacked and civilian infrastructure suffering severe damage.
Russia strikes Ukrainian targets, Ukraine repels multiple Russian attacks
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will work with relevant departments and local authorities to take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the newly passed private sector promotion law, a landmark legislation concerning a vast economic force in the country, said an NDRC official.
China's top legislative body -the National People's Congress - passed the private sector promotion law on Wednesday, establishing a legal backing for the steady and healthy growth of the key sector, including more than 57 million private firms and over 100 million self-employed individuals.
This landmark law is China's first fundamental legislation dedicated to the private sector. It will bolster confidence among the vast community by improving the business environment, fostering innovation, and ensuring fair competition, according to NDRC, the country's top economic planner.
"The private sector promotion law has actively responded to the key concerns in the development of the private sector. Efforts are made to establish and improve relevant systems and enhance the enforceability of the systems, from ensuring fair competition, improving investment and financing environment, supporting technology innovation, focusing on regulated operation, optimizing services and guarantees, and improving rights and interest protection, to strengthening legal accountability, so as to ensure that all forms of ownership can equally utilize production factors by the law, participate in market competition fairly, receive equal legal protection, further unleash their complementary advantages, and pursue common development," said Liu Min, deputy director of Private Sector Development Bureau under NDRC.
Liu added NDRC will continue to work together with relevant departments and local authorities to improve supporting systems and mechanisms and take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the private sector promotion law.
"We will make continuous and increasing efforts to remove barriers to market access and to fair competition, to address the issue of overdue payments to private enterprises, to protect the lawful rights and interests of private businesses and entrepreneurs by the law, to implement various relief policies, to help private enterprises shoulder their responsibilities of the era, so as to help translate legal systems into concrete actions and tangible outcomes that promote the high-quality development of the private sector," said Liu.
Concrete steps to take for firmly implementing China's landmark private sector promotion law: official
