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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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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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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — A study guide for important thoughts on strengthening and improving work on ethnic issues by General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping has been published in five ethnic minority languages.

This book, prepared by the United Front Department of the CPC Central Committee and the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the PRC, was published by Minzu Chubanshe Publishing House in the languages of the Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh and Korean nationalities.

The book is available at Xinhua bookstores nationwide. -0-

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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — The proportion of China's patent-protected corporate inventions put into production rose to 53.3 percent in 2024 from 44.9 percent in 2020, Shen Changyu, director of the National Intellectual Property Administration, said Thursday.

At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, the head of the department presented the country's achievements in the field of intellectual property during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) and answered journalists' questions on the matter. -0-

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AMMAN, July 17 (Xinhua) — The Jordanian Armed Forces on Wednesday evacuated the seventh batch of sick children from the Gaza Strip as part of the Jordan Medical Corridor initiative, the military said in a statement.

The group included 35 children, accompanied by 72 family members, who were transported to Jordan for treatment at local hospitals via the King Hussein Causeway.

The evacuation was carried out in coordination with the Jordanian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization and in accordance with strict medical and safety procedures.

According to the statement, this is the largest group of evacuees since the initiative was launched in March.

To date, a total of 112 children and 241 family members have been transported to Jordan for medical care.

In February, Jordan's King Abdullah II announced the country's readiness to accept up to 2,000 Palestinian children from Gaza for treatment. –0–

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LONDON, July 17 (Xinhua) — Britain's annual consumer price inflation rose 3.6 percent in June, the highest since January 2024, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday.

The ONS said the rate stood at 3.4 per cent in May. It attributed the rise mainly to higher prices for motor fuel, air and rail travel, and food.

Food and non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 4.5 percent year-on-year, the highest since February 2024.

Core inflation excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco rose by 3.7 percent in June, up from 3.5 percent in May. Services inflation, a key indicator of domestic price pressure, was unchanged in June at 4.7 percent.

Previous data from the ONS showed that UK real GDP contracted by 0.1% in May 2025, the second month in a row, following a 0.3% decline in April.

In mid-June, the Bank of England decided to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.25%, citing persistent inflationary pressures and heightened global uncertainty.

June inflation remains well above the 2 percent target, and the base rate is expected to be cut in August.

Market analysts believe that in 2025 the regulator will lower the rate at least twice more, which could reach 3.75 percent by the end of the year. –0–

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ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Xinhua) — Heavy monsoon rains and related incidents have killed at least 124 people in Pakistan in the past three weeks and injured 264 others, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Wednesday.

According to him, the deaths were recorded from June 26 to July 16. Over the past 24 hours, eight new deaths and 11 injuries were registered.

The eastern province of Punjab was the worst hit, with 49 people killed and 158 injured, followed by the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 38 people died and 57 were injured. The southern province of Sindh reported 20 deaths and 40 injuries. The southwestern province of Balochistan reported 16 deaths and four injuries.

There was one death and five injuries in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. There were no casualties in Gilgit-Baltistan or the Islamabad Capital Territory. –0–

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