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Laurence Brahm: Government Work Report-Blueprint for a decade of challenges
Premier Li Keqiang delivered the annual Government Work Report at the Great Hall of the People before assembled delegates of the National People's Congress on May 22, 2020. It was a defining moment in the wake of the most devastating public health crisis that China has had to face in its modern history. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world today is an ongoing crisis for which China must take specific remedial economic measures to address.
May 23 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Chinese economy’s resilience helps ease unemployment challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the lives of everyone around the world and may even change the global landscape. While Western countries are still struggling with COVID-19, China has started its economic recovery.
May 21 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Reform the WTO for a post-coronavirus world
In 1941, at the height of World War II, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met secretly in a desolate bay off Newfoundland. Over the next four days, they thrashed out what would become one of the most important documents of the 20th century: the Atlantic Charter. It laid out principles for the post-war order, key among which were economic cooperation and a trading system open to all.
May 14 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Rising to challenges
The novel coronavirus has become a catalyst for change. Shocking death tolls and severe economic headwinds have compelled countries and world leaders to reflect on the state of our multilateral institutions.
May 14 , 2020 -
Mario Cavolo: Don’t understand how China stopped the virus? Read this
Our children here in China are still not back to school even though there are no new cases. This is because cases in local cities will pop up and so there is still an abundance of caution. Most recently, there is a cluster of more than 50 cases in Harbin and lockdown measures are back in place to stop it, which of course are working fine. But these control measures stifle the economy and community. This is the new reality for many months to come. (Middle school students are just now starting to go back as we head into the end of April.) And this is even if President Trump wonders whether "those numbers seem light". I don't know whether to laugh, cry or throw dishes at the wall. The numbers are as real as any country or city, who as we can see are also regularly updating and adjusting their numbers.
May 02 , 2020 -
Andy Mok: Like WWI, the war against COVID-19 upends established order
The 2020 edition of the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is taking place in the midst of the war against COVID-19. It is one of the largest and most well-attended event of its kind. But because of the pandemic, this year it will be held entirely online.
April 25 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Speeding work & production resumption key to poverty alleviation
2020 is the year China plans to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieve the goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan. With the COVID-19 in the background bringing more challenges to China's economic growth, resumption of work and production are essential to drive economic recovery in the post-epidemic era and win the battle against poverty. Even with the coronavirus outbreak, President Xi Jinping has been attaching great importance to poverty alleviation and made an important speech to remobilize and redirect local governments to complete the task of poverty alleviation.
April 24 , 2020
