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Almaty, July 17 (Xinhua) — The Tajik government has approved a draft agreement on the supply of electricity from the Rogun hydroelectric power station (HPP) to Uzbekistan, the Avesta news agency reported on Thursday.

The set price for electricity is 3.4 US cents per 1 kWh.

The price is subject to annual indexation at a rate of 1%, starting from the second year of the agreement.

The document is concluded for a period of 20 years with automatic extension for subsequent ten-year periods, unless the parties declare termination six months before the expiration of the term. –0–

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BAGHDAD, July 17 (Xinhua) — About 50 people were killed in a massive fire at a hypermarket in Kut, the capital of Iraq's Wasit province, provincial governor Mohammed Jamil al-Mahi said on Thursday.

“We have lost about 50 people, including men, women and children, in a tragic fire at a hypermarket,” the governor wrote on his Facebook page.

The official declared three days of mourning for the victims of the fire.

"We will not be lenient towards anyone directly or indirectly responsible for this incident. The circumstances of what happened are suspicious. We will announce the results of the preliminary investigation to the public within 48 hours," he said. –0–

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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — The 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) opened in Beijing on Wednesday, with global business leaders and officials unanimously calling for stronger supply chains through open markets, innovation and multilateral cooperation.

“This event is not just a trade show. It is a forest of connections between economies, industries and people,” said John Denton, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), in his speech. “We are here to promote our shared prosperity.”

His words reflected a broad consensus among participants: building trust and deepening integration – from AI innovation to global manufacturing cooperation – are essential to effectively address growing global uncertainties.

CISCE 2025, held from July 16 to 20, brought together more than 650 companies and institutions from 75 countries, regions and international organizations, as well as over 500 of their upstream and downstream partners.

Foreign exhibitors accounted for 35 percent of the total number of participants, indicating sustainable business interest despite the strengthening geopolitical and economic headwinds.

Organized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the event is the world's first national-level exhibition dedicated exclusively to supply chains.

Ahead of the event, Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University of China, said the active participation of multinational companies reflects “the continuing momentum and irreversibility of globalization.”

He noted that China, with the world's most complete and largest industrial system, is playing an increasingly important role in driving global development through digital and green transformation and is increasingly seen as a laboratory for innovation.

China's expanding role in global innovation ecosystems, especially in AI, was highlighted by US tech giant Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who spoke at CISCE for the first time.

Calling China’s supply chain a “phenomenon,” he highlighted the country’s rapidly advancing AI technologies and their global reach. “China’s open-source AI is a catalyst for global progress,” he said, as it enables greater access to innovation and supports international cooperation on standards and safeguards.

In an interview on the sidelines of the show, Jensen Huang reiterated Nvidia’s long-term commitment to the Chinese market. “If you want to stay in the game, you have to invest,” he said. “The market is moving so fast and the competition is so intense – we have to keep growing.”

He added that China's tech market is growing rapidly and remains a key focus for the company, calling it "a very important market with dynamic, innovative customers."

The exhibition comes as China has announced economic growth of 5.3 percent in the first half of 2025, despite growing challenges and external uncertainties.

“China is entering a new cycle of market opportunities,” Lin Chunmei, general manager of Corning Greater China, told Xinhua. “With the rise of AI and cloud computing technologies, the AI infrastructure market is growing faster than ever.”

She noted that China's stable and resilient economy, along with a stable and open business environment, continues to support enterprise growth. "We have seen consistent improvements in China's business environment over the past decades," she added.

At the opening ceremony, CCPIT and global business representatives launched a joint initiative calling for supply chain stability and security, digital and green transformation, and stronger international cooperation.

CCPIT Chairman Ren Hongbin said the expo has become a platform for China's high-level opening-up, calling for joint efforts to safeguard multilateralism and build a more connected future. -0-

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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — A mutual visa waiver agreement between China and Malaysia officially came into effect on Thursday, further expanding visa-free travel opportunities for Chinese.

Under the new policy, Chinese and Malaysian nationals holding valid ordinary passports can enter, exit or transit through the other country without a visa for tourism purposes. Each stay in either country must not exceed 30 days and the cumulative stay must not exceed 90 days in any 180-day period.

The policy move comes three months after China and Malaysia signed a reciprocal visa-free agreement, marking another step forward in China's efforts to ease travel and promote international exchanges. -0-

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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, 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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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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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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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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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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