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CNN —Days of heavy rain have caused severe flooding in China’s leading grain-producing region in the northeast, killing 14 people and raising concerns about food security as floodwater inundated farmlands. As the storm moved further north, another 14 deaths were reported Sunday in the city of Shulan in Jilin province. Firefighters operate a drainage machine near a village in the city of Mudanjiang in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province on August 5. A cornfield is submerged by floodwater in a village in Hebi city, Henan province on August 5. A flooded farm in Xinxiang city, Henan province on August 5.

Persons: Doksuri, Zhang Tao, floodwater, Typhoon Khanun, Xi Jinping Organizations: CNN, Xinhua, Firefighters, China’s Ministry of Water Resources, Communist Party, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Affairs, National Bureau of Statistics, China Meteorological Administration, Qiushi, Communist Locations: China, Beijing, Hebei, Shulan, Jilin province, Heilongjiang, Mudanjiang, China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Harbin, Shangzhi, Wuchang, Liaoning, Hebi city, Henan province, Henan, Xinxiang city

☆ Most of what we've heard about the yuan dethroning the dollar is from the West. Here's what China's actually said about it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

China wants the yuan to play a bigger global role but hasn't called for it to replace the dollar. China wants to make the yuan the global currency," The Washington Post reported in May. Meanwhile, the Chinese currency is in fourth place, after the Japanese yen. In April this year, Xi again raised China's goal of yuan internationalization in Qiushi magazine, a Chinese Communist Party journal. In Qiushi, Xi said that China was committed to promoting yuan internationalization "in an orderly manner."

Persons: Xi Jinping, Niall Ferguson, hasn't, dollarization, China's, Rory Green, Xi, SWIFT, Liqing Zhang, Zhang Organizations: Service, NPR, Washington Post, Stanford, CNBC, European Central Bank, Communist, TS Lombard, Communist Party, Green, Central Bank of, Media, Communist Party's, Daily, Chinese Communist Party, Securities Times, Central University of Finance, Economics Locations: China, Wall, Silicon, Beijing, Russia, London, Xinhua

[1/5] A worker sweeps a street in the Central Business District on a rainy day in Beijing, China, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas PeterBEIJING, July 18 (Reuters) - China is entering an era of much slower economic growth, raising a daunting prospect: it may never get rich. He expects growth to slow to 3%, which "will feel like an economic recession" when youth unemployment is already above 20%. The April-June data puts 2023 growth on track for roughly 5%, with slower rates thereafter. But China's annual growth averaged around 7% last decade, and more than 10% in the 2000s.

Persons: Thomas Peter BEIJING, Desmond Lachman, year's, Wang Jun, Zheng Shanjie, Zheng, Richard Koo, Juan Orts, Xi Jinping's, Zhao, Cai Fang, Zhu Ning, Koo, Liangping Gao, Ellen Zhang, Ziyi Tang, Kevin Yao, Joe Cash, Marius Zaharia, David Crawshaw Organizations: Central Business District, REUTERS, American Enterprise Institute, Reuters, Communist, Huatai Asset Management, Reform Commission, Overseas, Nomura Research Institute, Fathom Consulting, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, Japan, United States, Young, Africa, Latin, U.S, Central

☆ Farm animals, crops suffer from extreme weather affecting China
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This year, extreme heat has ravaged many parts of the country even earlier than last year. Animals killedIn recent days, reports of farm animals killed by extreme heat have dominated the news. The pigs suffocated to death amid extreme heat and poor air circulation, Jimu News, a government-owned news website, cited an unnamed employee at the farm as saying. The heat wave was blamed for killing large numbers of farmed carp living in rice fields in the southwestern region of Guangxi. And more extreme weather events are likely to come.

Persons: Sheng Xia, El, El Niño, ”, Sheng, Wang Gang, Niño, Xi Jinping, Shi Guangming Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, China Meteorological Administration, Citic Securities, “, El, World Meteorological Organization, Qiushi, Communist, Villagers, China Today, China Media Group Locations: Hong Kong, China, Yunnan, Sichuan, El, Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Henan, Pingdingshan, Henan province, Xinjiang

Hong Kong CNN —Fang Bin, a retailer turned citizen journalist who documented the early outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan, has been released after more than three years detention in China, a family member told CNN. In one video, Fang, a Wuhan resident who sold clothing, showed hospital corridors crowded with patients and their desperate relatives. Rights groups had repeatedly called for Fang’s release and information about his case and of others who were also detained after sharing information about Wuhan outbreak. Both had reported on China’s initial Covid outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020. Authorities have never confirmed how many people had been detained or prosecuted in connection with sharing information on the pandemic.

☆ China says will craft policies to help economy, improve child care
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Joe Cash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - China's state planning body and finance ministry on Thursday said they will craft policies aimed at stimulating spending on housing and unlocking consumer savings that have been built up during the pandemic. The announcements, reported by state media, also included plans to help the elderly, improve child care services and encourage couples to have more children. The National Development and Reform Commission, China's state planner, will also work on plans to boost incomes, improve the spending power of low and middle-income citizens while encouraging spending on housing, new energy vehicles and elderly care services, it said in the ruling Communist Party journal Qiushi. Chinese government officials have consistently spoken of the need to boost domestic demand this year after economic growth in 2022 slumped to one of its weakest levels in nearly half a century. Reporting by Joe Cash, Ethan Wang and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Edwina GibbsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ O femeie din China, condamnată la închisoare după reportajele făcute despre carantina din Wuhan
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

O "cetăţeană jurnalistă" chineză, arestată după reportajele făcute despre carantina din Wuhan, a fost condamnată, luni, la 4 ani de închisoare, potrivit avocatului ei, relatează France Presse. "Părea foarte abătută când a fost anunţată hotărârea", a declarat el pentru AFP. Concret, instanţa a acuzat-o că a difuzat informaţii false pe internet, a declarat celălalt avocat al ei, Zhang Keke. În articolele pe care le-a difuzat online, Zhang a denunţat în special lockdown-ul impus la Wuhan, menţionând "o încălcare gravă a drepturilor omului". Zhang Zhan se afla în greva foamei din iunie şi a fost hrănită cu forţa cu ajutorul unui tub nazal, potrivit avocaţilor săi.

Persons: Zhang Zhan, Xi, AFP . Concret, instanţa, Zhang Keke, Zhang, Chen Qiushi, Bin, Li Organizations: France, Agerpres Locations: Wuhan, Shanghai, Chinei

☆ O femeie din China a fost condamnată la închisoare după reportajele făcute despre carantina din Wuhan
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-28 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

"Părea foarte abătută când a fost anunţată hotărârea", a declarat el pentru AFP. Concret, instanţa a acuzat-o că a difuzat informaţii false pe internet, a declarat celălalt avocat al ei, Zhang Keke. În articolele pe care le-a difuzat online, Zhang a denunţat în special lockdown-ul impus la Wuhan, menţionând "o încălcare gravă a drepturilor omului". Zhang Zhan se afla în greva foamei din iunie şi a fost hrănită cu forţa cu ajutorul unui tub nazal, potrivit avocaţilor săi. În afară de Zhang Zhan, alţi trei cetăţeni jurnalişti, Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin şi Li Zehua, au fost de asemenea plasaţi în detenţie după ce au dezvăluit evenimentele.

Persons: Zhang Zhan, Xi, AFP . Concret, instanţa, Zhang Keke, Zhang, Chen Qiushi, Bin, Li Organizations: Agerpres Locations: Shanghai, Wuhan, Chinei

„Părea foarte abătută când a fost anunţată hotărârea", a declarat el pentru AFP. Concret, instanţa a acuzat-o că a difuzat informaţii false pe internet, a declarat celălalt avocat al ei, Zhang Keke. În articolele pe care le-a difuzat online, Zhang a denunţat în special lockdown-ul impus la Wuhan, menţionând „o încălcare gravă a drepturilor omului”. Zhang Zhan se afla în greva foamei din iunie şi a fost hrănită cu forţa cu ajutorul unui tub nazal, potrivit avocaţilor săi. În afară de Zhang Zhan, alţi trei cetăţeni jurnalişti, Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin şi Li Zehua, au fost de asemenea plasaţi în detenţie după ce au dezvăluit evenimentele.

Persons: Zhang Zhan, Xi, AFP . Concret, instanţa, Zhang Keke, Zhang, Chen Qiushi, Bin, Li Organizations: Agerpres Locations: Shanghai, Wuhan, Chinei

☆ O jurnalistă chineză care a relatat despre epidemia din Wuhan a fost pusă sub acuzare de autorități
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-17 | by ( ) media-azi.md time to read: +1 min

Ea a fost acuzată că a informay despre focarul din Wuhan pe rețelele de socializare și site-urile de streaming. „A acceptat, de asemenea, interviuri de la mass-media de peste mări, Free Radio Asia și Epoch Times și a speculat cu răutate asupra epidemiei de Covid-19 din Wuhan”, se mai arătă în document. Chen Qiushi, fost avocat devenit jurnalist, a fost reținut în ianuarie. Li Zehua, care a călătorit la Wuhan pentru a scrie de acolo după dispariția lui Chen, a dispărut la începutul lunii februarie, dar a fost eliberată în aprilie. Rezidentul Fang Bin a dispărut tot atunci și nu a mai fost văzut.

Persons: Zhang, Chen Qiushi, Li, Chen, Fang Bin Organizations: Free Radio, Times Locations: Free Radio Asia

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