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Harvey Dzodin: China sets its eye on innovation
While every government report is densely packed with information, this year’s report is especially important because of the unique confluence of events. First, it follows China's successful battle against, and recovery from, COVID-19. Second, it's been a year of remarkable milestones. Third, it marks the end of China’s 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020) and the beginning of the 14th Five Year Plan (2021-2025).
March 08 , 2021 -
[ispionline] Wang Huiyao: How China and EU Can Help Asia’s Post-Pandemic Recovery
The world expects China’s economic recovery can help to boost other countries and regions’ economy. The EU would become a more relevant partner for Asia through the cooperation with China, especially through the new investment agreement with China.
March 05 , 2021 -
Laurence Brahm: Consensus with a plan: Let’s try to map the future
With the launch of the first sovereign-backed digital currency, China is breaking new ground in the post-COVID-19 world that will be in a transition no less than that after World War II when the Bretton Wood system was set up. Now with China's yuan going global with a digital avatar, the yuan could become the clearing currency for the Belt and Road that would then witness one planet with two financial systems and two reserve currencies.
March 05 , 2021 -
He Weiwen: Master blueprint at a crucial juncture in Chinese rejuvenation
The fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), which opens on March 5, will review and adopt the blueprint for China great rejuvenation – the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025, FYP) and Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035.
March 05 , 2021 -
Laurence Brahm: Consensus with a plan: Let’s try to map the future
Sanctions and trade wars have hurt nations, including China. At the same time these interventions have allowed China to understand the missing links in its own technology chains and to address these with research and development to move all technology innovation and production onshore.
March 05 , 2021 -
Zhou Xiaoming: Joe Biden’s ‘America first’ vaccine policy is a taste of things to come
Meanwhile, the US government has secured 600 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna to be made by the end of July, and purchased many doses of other vaccines. All told, enough advance orders have been placed to immunise every American twice over, while about 100 countries do not have a single dose.
March 04 , 2021 -
He Weiwen: Historic significance of Yangtze River Protection Law
It is estimated that, through great protection and upgrading development, the Yangtze River Basin will account for over half of China's economy by 2025, or by 2030 at the latest. It will also serve as the vanguard and model for the whole country to meet its ambitious goal of becoming a medium developed economy by 2035.
March 02 , 2021
