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GUU and the All-Russian Society "Knowledge" held an educational lecture for foreign students "Achievements of Crimea"

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On July 16, 2025, a lecture “Achievements of Crimea” for foreign students at the State University of Management was held at the site of the State University of Management as part of the All-Russian Society “Knowledge” project.

The speaker was Andrey Boltaevsky, a lecturer of the All-Russian Society "Knowledge", head of the Department of Humanities and Foreign Languages at the Russian University of Cooperation, and candidate of historical sciences.

Let us recall that the cooperation agreement between the State University of Management and the All-Russian Society “Knowledge” was signed at the end of last year.

During the lecture, foreign students were introduced to the regional characteristics of the Republic of Crimea, the history of its return to the Russian Federation in 2014, the main attractions, the latest infrastructure, which includes the Crimean Bridge, the Tavrida highway, medical and energy facilities.

Foreign students of the State University of Management are interested in the possibilities of visiting the Republic of Crimea, social relations between ethnic groups of the peninsula and the conditions of participation in the art cluster "Tavrida", which is a platform of opportunities for creative youth.

In conclusion, the students thanked the speaker for the informative information and wished success to the project “Learn Russia with Knowledge”.

The Russian Society "Knowledge" is a public organization, with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, which carries out educational work in the regions, forms intellectual content, organizes and conducts free lectures, as well as various events in the field of education, social support and social protection of students and pupils of educational institutions and the elderly. Today, this is an organization that unites tens of thousands of representatives of the Russian intelligentsia.

The event was organized by the State University of Management and the All-Russian Society "Knowledge" with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

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The first freight train departed from Hubei Province as part of the multimodal cargo transportation “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan”

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

WUHAN, July 17 (Xinhua) — The first China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan multimodal international freight train departed from Wujiashan Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province on Wednesday.

The train, number 75179, loaded with food containers and other goods, is expected to arrive in Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the containers will be transferred to trucks and leave China via the Irkeshtan checkpoint, after which they will be delivered to the Uzbek capital Tashkent.

In recent years, trade between Hubei Province and Central Asian countries has gradually increased. In 2021, China Railways Wuhan launched the first freight train service from Wuhan to Almaty. In April this year, freight trains from Wuhan to Central Asia were included in regular routes, achieving a monthly throughput of up to 440 standard containers /TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units/ and more than 7,500 tons of cargo.

According to Zhang Lin, a responsible representative of the international transport and logistics company Hubei Railway Corporation, thanks to the new logistics scheme, products from Hubei Province will be able to reach customers in Central Asian countries faster. The new logistics scheme will reduce the cost of transportation and insurance by 30 percent, and reduce the transportation time from about 20 to 10 days.

The Wuhan branch of China Railway said the launch of the new cargo route will be an opportunity to further work together with stakeholders to optimize transportation procedures, expand the logistics network and build highly efficient international logistics corridors. -0-

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Beijing's GRP up 5.5% in H1 2025

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — Beijing's gross regional product (GRP) exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan (about 350.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2025, up 5.5 percent year on year in constant prices, the Beijing Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.

In the first six months of this year, the city's primary sector added value reached 4.57 billion yuan, up 1.5 percent year-on-year, while the secondary sector added value was more than 335.6 billion yuan, up 4.7 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, Beijing's tertiary sector added value increased 5.6 percent year-on-year to more than 2.16 trillion yuan, the department's data showed.

In January-June 2025, the added value of Beijing's large industrial enterprises increased by 7 percent year-on-year, 0.2 percentage points higher than in the first quarter of this year. In addition, Beijing saw rapid development of high-tech industries, with the production of lithium-ion batteries, new energy vehicles, and medical instruments, equipment, and apparatus growing rapidly.

As for the service industry, its added value, as mentioned, increased by 5.6 percent year-on-year. The added value of the information transmission, software, and information technology services industry reached nearly 619.4 billion yuan, up 11.1 percent from the first half of 2024. In addition, the added value of the financial industry increased by 8.1 percent to nearly 436.3 billion yuan.

Beijing's average unemployment rate in the first half of the year was 4.1 percent, unchanged from the first quarter of 2025, while per capita disposable income in the Chinese capital reached 45,144 yuan, up 4.8 percent year on year. -0-

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China's rail passenger traffic hits record high in first half of 2025

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — China's rail passenger traffic rose 6.7 percent year-on-year to a record 2.24 billion person-times in the first half of 2025, hitting a new all-time high, data released by China State Railway Corporation (CSRC) showed Thursday.

According to the KGZhK, in the period from January to June of this year, the average daily number of passenger trains running in the country was 11,183, which is 7.5 percent more than a year earlier.

The highest average daily passenger traffic was recorded on May 1, the first day of the May Day holidays, when more than 23 million passengers were carried in one day, which is a record figure, the company said in a statement.

China Railways also saw a rapid increase in the number of foreign passengers as visa policies were further relaxed. In the first half of 2025, foreign travelers took nearly 9.15 million train trips in China, up 30.1 percent from a year earlier.

In the first half of 2025, the passenger traffic on the China-Laos railway reached 139,000 person-times, an increase of 19.1 percent year-on-year. -0-

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China calls for strengthening trade and economic cooperation within the SCO

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — Gao Yunlong, chairman of the China Association of Industry and Commerce, called for improving the quality and level of economic and trade cooperation within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), speaking at the opening of the SCO Business Forum in Beijing on Thursday.

Gao Yunlong, also vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), noted that trade and economic cooperation is a powerful engine for the dynamic development of the SCO.

According to him, China is ready to work with all parties to further align regional development strategies, promote the improvement of the quality and level of trade and economic cooperation, and ensure the stability and continuity of production chains and supply chains.

Gao Yunlong stressed that these efforts will be aimed at building a closer SCO community with a shared future and promoting long-term peace and common prosperity throughout the world.

The forum, organized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, brought together about 400 government and business representatives from China and abroad. -0-

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Former CPPCC National Committee Bureau Member Sentenced to Death with Suspension for Bribery

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — Wu Yingjie, a former member of the Bureau of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Wednesday for accepting bribes.

According to the verdict handed down by the Third Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, Wu Yingjie, who also previously served as chairman of the CPPCC National Committee's Culture, Historical Information and Education Committee, was deprived of his political rights for life. All of his personal property and illegal income were confiscated and retained by the state.

The court found that between June 2006 and February 2021, the defendant, while holding various positions in the Xizang Autonomous Region in southwest China, abused his official position to provide assistance to relevant organizations and third parties in matters such as concluding contracts for projects and conducting business activities, in exchange for which he received financial or material benefits from them worth more than 343 million yuan (about 48 million US dollars).

The court found that the amount of bribes Wu Yingjie received was particularly large, the circumstances of his case were particularly aggravated, and the social consequences were extremely negative, which led to significant damage to the interests of the country and the people.

However, the court gave Wu Yingjie a more lenient sentence given mitigating circumstances, including his reports of other people's alleged illegal and criminal activities that were verified following the investigation, Wu Yingjie's admission of guilt and remorse for his actions, and his active return of the property he had illegally appropriated. -0-

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The East is a promising business: Polytechnic and Chinese institutes on the way to new projects

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A delegation from Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) and Tsinghua University Suzhou Automobile Research Institute (TSARI) arrived at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University to strengthen their strategic partnership. The visit was led by JITRI First Deputy Director Gao Jun.

China is a key partner of SPbPU: the university has more than 60 active agreements with Chinese universities and companies, including two large joint institutes in Jiangsu and Xi'an, where over a thousand students study. SPbPU itself has 2,200 Chinese students — almost half of the foreign contingent.

The meeting participants discussed the expansion of academic mobility programs. Of particular interest was the JITRI Co-op internship program, which provides paid internships at leading Chinese research institutes and companies in the following areas: new materials, information and communication technologies, energy, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing. The Polytechnic University confirmed its readiness to organize an open competition among talented students and young scientists to participate in the program.

Scientific cooperation will also receive a boost: the parties agreed to intensify joint projects in the field of digital twins of power plants, artificial intelligence for industrial systems and polymer composite materials. Three major projects are already being implemented, including the BRICS grant won in sustainable development management with Nanjing University.

"Today, our laboratories are looking to the East," said Dmitry Arsenyev, Vice-Rector for International Affairs at SPbPU. "China has not only caught up with the technological leaders, but is setting new standards, and the Polytechnic University will orient students toward internships at JITRI, in your laboratories and at production facilities. This is a new vector — from the fundamental research of the Polytechnic University to Chinese industrial practice."

In response, the JITRI delegation proposed the creation of working groups to develop specific initiatives, including joint workshops and the involvement of industrial partners.

Prospects for cooperation include the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences: SPbPU is closely connected with its St. Petersburg branch, which unites 50 research institutes. Rector of SPbPU and Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy signed a cooperation agreement in 2023 with Director of the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hu Jinbo.

"The doors of any institute of the Academy of Sciences are open to JITRI," said Dmitry Germanovich, proposing to synchronize efforts with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. To ensure prompt work, the parties plan to hold a virtual round table in the coming months.

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Mutual visa-free regime comes into force between China and Azerbaijan

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — A mutual visa-free regime between China and Azerbaijan took effect on Wednesday, a move that experts say will greatly boost people-to-people exchanges between the two countries and once again demonstrate China's determination to expand its external opening-up.

On the same day, Tianshan International Airport in Urumqi /the administrative center of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China/ welcomed the first batch of Chinese and Azerbaijani citizens who flew on a direct flight from Urumqi to Baku within the framework of the visa-free policy, China Central Television reports.

According to the intergovernmental agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Azerbaijan, a holder of an ordinary Chinese passport and a holder of an ordinary Azerbaijani passport can enter each other's country without a visa for up to 30 days per visit and stay for no more than 90 days within a six-month period. A visa is still required for long-term stays for the purpose of residence, work and study.

Let us recall that China is experiencing rapid growth in inbound and outbound travel, thanks in particular to the continuous optimization of the visa-free policy. According to the latest data from the State Immigration Administration of the People's Republic of China, in the first half of 2025, the number of border crossings by foreign citizens in both directions through Chinese checkpoints increased by 30.2 percent year-on-year to 38.05 million person-times, while the number of foreigners who entered China under the visa-free regime reached 13.64 million people, an increase of 53.9 percent.

In its latest round of moves to expand its “visa-free circle of friends,” China signed mutual visa waiver agreements with Uzbekistan, Malaysia and Azerbaijan, and introduced unilateral visa-free travel to nine more countries, including Brazil, Argentina and Saudi Arabia.

At present, China has introduced a unilateral visa-free regime for 47 countries and a 240-hour visa-free transit policy for citizens of 55 countries. -0-

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Fishing season opens on Chinese-Russian border river Ussuri

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — The fishing season on the Chinese-Russian border river Ussuri opened at 00:00 on July 16, ending a 35-day summer moratorium on fishing on this right tributary of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River, the local fisheries department said.

During the fishing season, the Chinese border control agency is prepared to strengthen inspection and patrolling using drones, patrol boats and CCTV to ensure the safety of fishermen and the legality of their fishing operations.

According to the report, during the summer fishing ban of the current year, the local border control service conducted 21 patrol raids on the Ussuri River, during which 296 people were prevented from committing crimes, thanks to which the number of administrative and criminal cases concerning the border control and the neighboring country in the corresponding section of the border was reduced to zero.

Let us recall that the seasonal moratorium on fishing in the border waters between China and Russia is being introduced mainly on the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, as well as in Lake Xingkaihu in order to preserve fish resources and ensure the sustainable development of fishing in these waters.

In 1999, China established the Ussuri River Aquatic Resources Protection Group, which releases juvenile fish into the Ussuri every year during the fishing ban. -0-

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Monthly interest on a deposit: save or spend?

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Source: Solid Bank – Solid Bank –

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We are sure that investors who place funds in deposits with monthly interest payments have at least once asked themselves: is it better to save interest or live on interest and spend it on their personal needs? Today we will figure this out.

There is no right answer to this question. Here everyone chooses their own option – what is better, what is more profitable, what fits into individual plans. The most important thing is that the answer to this question depends on your ultimate financial goals, plans and life habits.

The option to save interest, as well as the option to live on interest, have their own characteristics (advantages and disadvantages). It is worth evaluating what will suit your strategy better.

We accumulate interest:

• This option is definitely suitable if your goal is to increase your capital. Please note that the deposit terms should include not only the option of monthly interest payments, but also capitalization. With its help, the interest accrued monthly will be automatically added to the deposit amount. Thus, the income increases compared to deposits without capitalization. This is the effect of compound interest.

• We protect your funds from inflation and fraud. If you are worried that your savings are depreciating, that there may be a sharp decline in the economy, etc., you should consider a deposit as a savings instrument. Due to the interest, you protect your money from depreciation, and also keep it in a safe and secure place, while the investments will be insured by the Deposit Insurance Agency within 1.4 million rubles. In the event of an unforeseen situation, you will receive compensation.

• Develop financial discipline. Agree that the ability to save money is not inherent to everyone. For some it comes easy, for others it does not work at all, and all attempts do not end with a successful result. Opening a deposit will help develop this skill. You will not be tempted and able to "get into" savings, since, most often, the terms of deposits do not provide for the withdrawal of funds before the deposit term without sanctions for the depositor. Usually, funds can be withdrawn only if the interest paid earlier is lost. This fact will keep you from temptations. For this purpose, a deposit in Solid Bank – "Solid" is perfect. Where you can now place money at an attractive interest rate, which can become higher with capitalization. More details here.

We spend interest:

• A deposit is an additional source of income. For example, you are a pensioner, have some savings, and you do not need to use them for large purchases. By placing money in the Bank at interest, you can receive a monthly increase to your pension. This will allow you to improve your standard of living now. Our "Pension" deposit is ideal for this. You can study the conditions at the link. The option – spending interest strategically is suitable for anyone who wants to use the deposit as a passive source of income for current needs.

The most important thing for you is to know your goals and, based on this, choose financial instruments. We are always ready to consult each of you and help you choose the right options. Contact us at our offices or on the hotline: 8 800 775 56 06.

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