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KUNMING, July 9 (Xinhua) — Five people are missing after heavy rains hit Zhaotong city in southwest China's Yunnan Province since 7 a.m. Tuesday, local authorities said Wednesday.

In one of the villages of Weixing County of this city prefecture, the rampage of the elements caused by heavy rainfall led to the collapse of two buildings. According to preliminary data, five people are missing. Rescuers are looking for them.

The authorities of Zhaotong city have begun work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.

As of 14:00, more than 7,000 local residents had been evacuated to safer places. -0-

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WUHAN, July 9 (Xinhua) — The Wuhan-Moscow-Wuhan direct flight will officially resume on Sept. 9, the branch of China Southern Airlines in central China's Hubei Province said Wednesday.

Flights between Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, and the Russian capital will reportedly be operated by wide-body Airbus A350-900 passenger aircraft on Tuesdays and Sundays.

The aircraft will depart from Wuhan Airport at 15:10 Beijing time and arrive at Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport at 19:15 local time, and depart in the opposite direction from Moscow at 21:15 local time, arriving in Wuhan at 10:30 the following day Beijing time. The one-way flight will take approximately 8 hours.

Let us recall that this air route was launched on July 30, 2014, becoming the first direct flight in history connecting central China with Russia.

According to the Hubei branch of China Southern Airlines, along with the recent implementation of a series of measures to facilitate people-to-people exchanges between China and Russia, the resumption of direct flights will further promote humanitarian exchanges between the two countries. -0-

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BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) — A special exhibition of works by the great Russian artist Ilya Repin will open to the public at the National Museum of China (NMC) on July 23. It is jointly organized by the NMC and the State Tretyakov Gallery with the support of the State Russian Museum.

The exhibition will feature 92 works in such techniques as oil painting and drawing, systematically revealing the creative path of Ilya Repin. It will be the largest and most representative exhibition of its kind ever held in China, according to a statement published on the official website of the NMC on Wednesday.

According to the NMC, the upcoming exhibition will combine the collections of two leading Russian art institutions and, for the first time in China, a comprehensive picture of the great artist’s work will be presented on a large scale.

In particular, such famous masterpieces by Repin as “Tsarevna Sophia”, “Religious Procession in Kursk Province”, “They Didn’t Expect Him” and “Sadko” will be delivered to China for the first time and presented to the Chinese public. Among them, the painting “Religious Procession in Kursk Province” with a width of almost 4 meters will be impressively demonstrated to visitors.

The exhibition consists of 8 creative groups of important works by I. Repin, which reveal the artist's entire creative path – from field sketches to the creation of monumental canvases. This will allow viewers to more clearly feel the strict methodology of the master's work.

In particular, the creative team dedicated to the creation of “Barge Haulers on the Volga” will demonstrate portrait sketches of barge haulers, script sketches, oil sketches and other materials related to this most recognizable famous painting in China. This will provide viewers with a unique opportunity to deeply immerse themselves in the history of the birth of this masterpiece and feel how I. Repin step by step transformed the initial idea into a work that conquered the whole world, the NMC statement notes. -0-

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NEW DELHI, July 9 (Xinhua) — At least nine people were killed and more than six injured on Wednesday when several vehicles fell into a river after a bridge collapsed in India's western Gujarat state, local police said.

A section of the 40-year-old Gambhira Bridge collapsed on Wednesday morning, disrupting road connectivity between Anand and Vadodara.

Police said nine bodies had been recovered from the river. The injured were taken to a local hospital. –0–

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Vladivostok, July 9 (Xinhua) — Forest fires in Russia's Zabaikalsky Krai, which have been raging since the start of the fire season, have been completely extinguished, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing the region's Ministry of Natural Resources.

The fire season in 2025 in Zabaikalsky Krai was declared on March 24, when the first forest fire occurred in the region. Since then, the forest fire service has extinguished 665 fires on an area of 2.6 million hectares in the region. As of the morning of July 9, there is not a single fire in Zabaikalsky Krai.

A regional emergency regime was in effect in the forests of the region from April 7 due to wildfires. A federal emergency regime was introduced in Zabaikalsky Krai on April 23. On July 5, the Governor of Zabaikalsky Krai, Aleksandr Osipov, lifted the emergency regime in the forests of the region, which had been in effect since April due to the fire hazard. At the end of June, the region extended the restriction on staying in the forests until July 10 inclusive. –0–

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Almaty, July 9 /Xinhua/ — Seventy percent of all Chinese companies registered in Kazakhstan operate in Almaty, the Kazinform news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a speech by Almaty Deputy Akim Olzhas Smagulov at the Qazaq Invest Forum-2025.

The official said that Almaty is ready to become a key investment conductor for Chinese partners. The exemplary relations between the leadership of the two countries and the full support of the Almaty city administration create a solid foundation for long-term cooperation.

"Today, about 70 percent of all Chinese companies registered in Kazakhstan are successfully operating in Almaty. More than a third of all trade in Almaty is with our Chinese partners, it exceeds 8 billion dollars," O. Smagulov noted.

He also reported that there is significant potential for expanding cooperation in absolutely all areas, primarily in the field of high-tech production with high added value. –0–

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CAIRO, July 9 (Xinhua) — China and Egypt, as important members of the Global South, should further strengthen strategic coordination to safeguard common interests, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday upon his arrival in Cairo for an official visit to Egypt at the invitation of his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly.

Noting that China and Egypt are ancient civilizations, the Chinese premier said that since the establishment of diplomatic ties nearly 70 years ago, the two countries have remained close friends who support each other and strategic partners with a shared destiny.

In recent years, under the strategic leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, China-Egypt relations have flourished, their traditional friendship has become stronger over time, political mutual trust has deepened, practical cooperation has yielded fruitful results, and multilateral coordination has become increasingly close and effective, he said.

According to Li Qiang, the two countries have created a model of solidarity, unity, self-reliance, mutual benefit and mutual support for major developing countries.

He noted that last year, the two heads of state met twice and reached an important consensus on advancing the construction of a China-Egypt community with a shared future in the new era, which opened up new opportunities for bilateral relations.

As global changes accelerate unseen in a century and various challenges emerge, China and Egypt, as key members of the Global South, should also jointly promote peace and prosperity, the Chinese premier said.

Li Qiang noted that China is willing to work with Egypt to deepen cooperation in all fields under the strategic leadership of the two heads of state, continuously enrich the content of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership, give strong impetus to development and national revival, and actively promote regional and global peace and stability.

The Egyptian prime minister and senior government officials met Li Qiang at the airport and held a welcoming ceremony in his honor. Before arriving in Egypt, the Chinese premier attended the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. –0–

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XI'AN, July 9 (Xinhua) — When Dilnaz from Kazakhstan received her master's degree in late June this year, her entire student life in China flashed before her eyes. During her two years of master's studies, she had the opportunity to study at two campuses of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU): one in Almaty and the other in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province (Northwest China), a distance of more than 3,000 kilometers.

Studying in two countries was an amazing and unforgettable experience, Dilnaz said. It was made possible by the launch of an international education program two years ago at SZPU, a renowned engineering university in China.

Let us recall that in May 2023, within the framework of the first China-Central Asia summit, an agreement was signed between NWPU and the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi /KazNU/ to open a Kazakhstani branch of NWPU. Already in October of the same year, eight Kazakhstani students, including Dilnaz, became the first master's students of this branch in Almaty. They studied in the specialties of materials science, information and communication engineering, computer science and technology, which are the strongest disciplines at NWPU.

In recent years, as China deepens cooperation with Central Asian countries under the Belt and Road Initiative, education has become a key area of bilateral cooperation. A number of Chinese universities have opened branches in Central Asian countries, giving new impetus to the development of higher education cooperation between China and Central Asia.

For example, in July 2024, a branch of Beijing Language and Culture University was officially opened in Kazakhstan, and in the same month, a branch of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University was opened in Tashkent, which became the first Chinese university branch in Uzbekistan. In May of this year, Xi'an University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Osh Technological University of Kyrgyzstan (OshTU) signed an agreement in Xi'an to establish an architectural institute at OshTU.

In the more than 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the five Central Asian countries, bilateral relations have achieved leaps and bounds, as evidenced by the continuous strengthening of political mutual trust and the intensification of trade and economic exchanges and people-to-people contacts, which has created conditions for the opening of branches of Chinese universities in Central Asian countries, noted Gu Wei, a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

According to her, the entry of Chinese universities into the international arena with the establishment of foreign branches meets the needs of Central Asian countries in training highly qualified personnel and will contribute to the deepening of cooperation between China and Central Asian countries.

In May 2025, SZPU, together with KazNU, established the China-Kazakhstan Elite Engineering Institute, signing an agreement on joint training of bachelors in artificial intelligence under the “2 2” scheme with the issuance of double diplomas. This project became a new breakthrough for the two universities in the field of training specialists, creating a new architecture of high-level international cooperation.

“These achievements clearly demonstrate the deep coordination and joint development of the parties in the field of training specialists and scientific and innovative activities, actively promoting cultural mutual enrichment and scientific cooperation,” noted Vice-Rector of SZPU Yue Xiaokui.

As the Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China Huai Jinpeng reported in May at the first Meeting of Ministers of Education "China-Central Asia", at present more than 18 thousand young people from Central Asia are studying in Chinese universities. -0-

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BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Wednesday called on the European Union (EU) to take a more objective and rational approach to China and pursue a more positive and pragmatic policy toward it.

Mao Ning made the statement at a regular press conference, commenting at the request of the media on recent statements by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding relations between China and the EU.

Noting that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the EU, Mao Ning stressed that this is an important year for continuing the good traditions of bilateral relations and opening the way for their future development.

The diplomat called on the EU to truly develop a more objective and rational understanding of China and pursue a more positive and pragmatic policy towards it.

"China hopes that the EU will realize the need to rebalance its own thinking, not the trade and economic relations between China and the EU," Mao Ning said.

“In the current unstable global environment, we hope that the EU will meet China halfway, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, properly manage differences and frictions, and promote the sustainable, healthy and stable development of China-EU relations,” she added. -0-

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QINGDAO, July 9 (Xinhua) — The first conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on standardization cooperation was held in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on Tuesday, marking the establishment of the first standardization cooperation mechanism within the SCO to provide institutional guarantees for such cooperation within the organization.

The event was jointly initiated by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart).

The conference participants held an in-depth exchange of views on the creation of a mechanism for cooperation in the field of standardization within the SCO, strengthening cooperation on standardization in key areas, creating an information platform on standardization and building capacity in this area.

Following the event, the Qingdao Initiative was adopted to strengthen cooperation between national standardization bodies of the SCO member states.

As experts point out, the conference will help to build an information platform for SCO member states on standardization, facilitate the creation of working groups on cooperation in the field of technical standards in key areas, promote cooperation on standardization within the SCO in such important areas as artificial intelligence and low-altitude economics, and facilitate the alignment of standards between the countries of the organization. -0-

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