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BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Various specialty products from Central Asia have attracted many visitors at the trade fair and exhibition area of the China-Central Asia Flowing Trade Cooperation Platform in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

The 23,000-square-meter platform is playing a growing role in strengthening trade and economic ties between Jiangsu Province, a major provincial economy in China, and Central Asian countries, according to local media.

Let us recall that this platform is not new: it is about upgrading the level of the Jiangsu Central Asian Countries Center, which was established by the holding corporation Jiangsu SOHO Holdings Group Co., Ltd jointly with the government of Xuanwu District of Nanjing City and officially began operating in September 2024.

It integrates functions such as product display and sales, trade services, technical exchanges and cultural exhibition, and provides comprehensive services for Central Asian enterprises in the field of investment and trade cooperation in China.

Thanks to the 2025 Jiangsu/Astana Import and Export Expo held in June this year, Jiangsu technology company TOVEA established cooperation with partners from Central Asian countries for the first time.

According to TOVEA's director Wu Xudong, he has visited the Jiangsu Central Asian Countries Center many times since its establishment. Through the policy interpretation and market analysis services provided by the center, he became familiar with the huge potential of the Central Asian countries' optical communication markets and decided to start developing the markets in this region.

“Central Asian countries have rich resource advantages, and Jiangsu has obvious advantages in the textile and clothing industry, photovoltaic module production, goods for pregnant women, infants and young children and other industries needed by Central Asian countries,” SOHO Holdings Group noted, calling the prospects for cooperation between Jiangsu Province and Central Asia very broad in the fields of trade and investment, environmentally friendly agriculture and international logistics.

In addition, according to the corporation, it also independently created and launched the “Silk Road” e-commerce platform, which has attracted more than 100 enterprises from Jiangsu Province, becoming an important terminal for local enterprises to enter the markets of Central Asian countries.

According to statistics from Nanjing Customs, in the first half of 2025, Jiangsu Province's export volume to five Central Asian countries was 11.099 billion yuan, up 25.8 percent year on year.

"As a province occupying an important strategic position at a nodal point along the Belt and Road, Jiangsu has the responsibility to build a higher-level cooperation bridge and attract more regions in China to carry out trade exchanges with Central Asia and Belt and Road countries," the provincial commerce department said. -0-

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BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The China Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center under the National Administration of Space Industry has released a list of the ninth batch of approved applications for borrowing lunar samples for exploration, allowing applicants to obtain samples collected and returned by China's Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 probes.

As it became known, a total of 30,881.8 milligrams of lunar samples will be provided to 32 responsible persons from 25 research institutes.

The list includes such universities as Macao University, Chengdu Institute of Technology, Donghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, etc.

The list also includes institutions affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, and the China Institute of Atomic Energy.

As reported, the Chang'e-6 mission collected 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples for the first time in human history from the far side of the Moon, and the Chang'e-5 lunar mission collected about 1,731 grams of lunar samples.

In July 2021, China delivered the first batch of lunar samples to scientific research institutions. So far, China has provided eight batches of lunar samples to such organizations for research purposes.

Last month, China released a series of research results from Chinese scientists studying samples collected by the Chang'e-6 lunar mission, in categories including volcanic activity, the moon's ancient magnetic field, and the water content and geochemical characteristics of the lunar mantle. -0-

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Moscow, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Russia no longer considers itself bound by self-imposed restrictions on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles (INF), and the conditions for maintaining this moratorium have disappeared, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

“The situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American-made land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region (APR),” the department said in a statement on the issue of a moratorium on the deployment of land-based intermediate-range missiles.

The diplomatic department drew attention to the West's steps to deploy the INF and emphasized that they pose a direct threat to Russia's security. According to the statement, since 2023 Moscow has been recording precedents of transferring American systems capable of ground-based INF launches to European NATO countries to test these weapons during exercises.

“With regard to the Asia-Pacific region, we note that under the pretext of exercises in April 2024, the Typhon medium-range missile system was delivered to the Philippines, which is still on the archipelago. The same system was used in July of this year in Australia for live firing during the Talisman Sabre 2025 multilateral training events,” the statement says.

The ministry recalled that the Russian side made a direct call to NATO countries in 2019-2020 to declare a reciprocal moratorium on the deployment of weapons systems previously banned under the INF Treaty, and to US allies in the Asia-Pacific region to support efforts to prevent a race for such weapons in the region.

“Since our repeated warnings on this matter have been ignored… the Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of the conditions for maintaining a unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding previously adopted self-restrictions,” the Foreign Ministry stated.

The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 in Washington and is of indefinite duration. It prohibits the parties from having land-based ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5.5 thousand km. The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of violating this treaty. –0–

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Two people were killed and six were injured in a mass shooting that occurred in the early hours of Monday in downtown Los Angeles, California, local authorities said.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident occurred around 01:00 local time /08:00 GMT/ in the Griffith Avenue area, where several parties were taking place.

Late Sunday night, Los Angeles police officers observed someone enter what they believed to be an unauthorized gathering of more than 50 people. Officers broke up the party and arrested one attendee for possession of a weapon.

Hours later, police returned to the same scene after reports of gunfire and found eight people with gunshot wounds. One man died at the scene and a 52-year-old woman died later in hospital.

Police said that of the six injured, aged between 26 and 62, two were in critical condition.

Authorities have not announced any arrests and have not yet established a possible motive for the crime. The investigation is ongoing. –0–

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Thailand and Cambodia have expressed their firm commitment to ending the conflict during the secretariat-level talks, Malaysian Armed Forces Chief Mohd Nizam Jaffar said in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.

The talks, scheduled for August 4-6 ahead of an extraordinary meeting of the General Boundary Commission on August 7, will also include agreeing on a mandate for the establishment of an ASEAN military attaché monitoring group, he said.

"They [Thailand and Cambodia] are currently discussing the preconditions for the deployment of the group. If everything goes well, we expect a very positive decision as early as this Thursday," the Malaysian military chief told reporters after a meeting with the heads of secretariats of both countries.

He stressed that Malaysia is only acting as a mediator before the extraordinary meeting of the commission. –0–

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Moscow, August 4 (Xinhua) — The Russian government will allocate about 5.7 billion rubles to expand the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the country, the press service of the Russian government reported on Monday.

The subsidy will be used to compensate operators of electric charging stations for part of the costs of purchasing and technologically connecting new equipment to power grids within the framework of the national project “Industrial Support for Transport Mobility”. This will allow for the deployment of about 1.9 thousand new charging stations for electric vehicles in the next 3 years.

According to the Russian government, there are currently more than 2,000 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles operating in the country. –0–

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BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — China's services trade maintained steady growth in the first half of this year, with the combined import and export volume reaching 3.89 trillion yuan (about 544.9 billion U.S. dollars), up 8 percent year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday.

In particular, according to the department, exports of services grew by 15 percent to 1.69 trillion yuan, and imports increased by 3.2 percent to 2.2 trillion yuan, while the negative balance decreased year-on-year by 152.2 billion yuan.

Trade in knowledge-intensive services continued to grow, with imports and exports totaling 1.5 trillion yuan, up 6 percent year-on-year.

Tourism services became the largest category of services trade by volume in the first half of the year, with a total trade volume of 1.08 trillion yuan, up 12.3 percent year on year.

It is noteworthy that the export of tourism services during the reporting period increased by 68.7 percent. –0–

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BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Chinese companies showed steady growth in sales revenue in the first half of 2025, according to value-added tax invoices for the first half of the year released by the General Administration of Taxation.

In particular, in January-June, sales revenues in the manufacturing industry grew by 1.5 percentage points faster than the overall national figure, which confirms the importance of this sector as one of the main pillars of national economic growth.

During the reporting period, the development of new quality productive forces also gained momentum: sales revenues from high-tech sectors grew by 14.3 percent year-on-year.

Machinery purchases nationwide rose 11.1 percent in the first half of the year, driven by the national equipment renewal program, and maintained the rapid growth seen in 2024. The consumer goods trade-in program boosted demand for related products, leading to a sharp rise in retail sales.

At the same time, as the data showed, according to the results of the first half of the year, interregional sales accounted for 40.7 percent of all sales revenues in the country, which reflects steady progress in the formation of a single national market. –0–

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BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — More than 82,000 people had been evacuated from various parts of Beijing as of 9 p.m. Monday due to heavy rains, the city's flood control headquarters said.

Authorities have closed 201 tourist areas, 3,480 guest houses and 245 camping areas to visitors. In addition, work has been suspended at more than 3,200 construction sites across the city.

The Beijing Meteorological Department issued a red alert for heavy rain on Monday afternoon, the highest level in China's four-tier warning system. Forecasters said heavy rain was possible across the city from midday on August 4 to the morning of August 5.

Beijing has also activated its highest level of flood emergency response.

Meanwhile, the capital's water management department and meteorological service issued a joint flood warning, with Miyun District identified as the most vulnerable area, and Fangshan, Mentougou and Huairou districts also at risk.

Residents were urged to take shelter during thunderstorms, avoid driving on flooded roads and stay away from high ground and rivers.

Last week, heavy rains in Beijing killed 44 people, affecting more than 300,000 residents and damaging about 24,000 homes.

On Monday, China's National Flood and Drought Control Headquarters raised the flood emergency response to Level 3 (the third-highest in the nation's four-tier system) in Beijing, Tianjin Municipality, Hebei Province and Guangdong Province.

Heavy rains are forecast in the four regions mentioned above from the evening of August 4 to August 5, with showers expected in some places.

It is reported that working teams dispatched by the headquarters office are currently continuing to provide assistance in flood control efforts in Beijing, Hebei and Guangdong provinces. –0–

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Almaty, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company KazMunaiGas (KMG) has delivered its first batch of 85,000 tons of oil to Hungary via Croatia, the KMG press service reported on Monday.

As reported by KMG, the first oil delivery from Kazakhstan to Hungary was carried out as part of the strategic expansion of cooperation between KMG and the international oil and gas company headquartered in Budapest.

It is specified that the oil was delivered from the port of Novorossiysk to the Croatian port of Omisalj by tanker. Further transportation to the final destination – the Szazhalombatta oil refinery in Hungary – will be carried out via the Adriatic oil pipeline.

The two parties signed a framework agreement on future oil supplies.

The negotiations on the supply of Kazakh oil to Hungary first became known in February 2025. –0–

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