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Breaking: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged New Year's greetings

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

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged New Year greetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

In his message, Xi Jinping noted that 2025 marks a concrete step in the Sino-Russian comprehensive partnership of strategic coordination in the new era.

The Chinese leader also stated that he is ready to maintain close contacts with Vladimir Putin for the sake of continuous new progress in bilateral relations in the new era. –0–

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Direct flights between Chengdu and Almaty have been launched.

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BEIJING, December 31 (Xinhua) — Air China officially launched direct flights between Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, the Zhongguo Xinwenwang online portal reported Wednesday.

Flight CA455, carrying 125 passengers, departed Chengdu Tianfu International Airport at 6:30 PM on Tuesday and landed safely at Almaty International Airport at 8:01 PM local time. This is also the first direct air route connecting southwest China with Kazakhstan.

According to the schedule, roundtrip passenger flights on this route will be operated twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays by an Airbus A320. Flight duration is approximately 4.5 hours.

As previously reported by Chinese media, the launch of direct air service between the two cities will fully utilize the advantages of air travel, such as high efficiency and convenience, and will also contribute to the further strengthening of trade, economic cooperation, and humanitarian exchanges between southwest China and the countries of Central Asia.

In recent years, economic and trade cooperation between Sichuan Province and Kazakhstan has become increasingly close. Vehicles, air conditioners, and other goods exported from the province are popular among residents of Kazakhstan, while ferrochrome, zinc concentrate, barley, and other goods from Kazakhstan also enter the Chinese market via Sichuan.

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China saw improvement in women's health in 2024

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BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China's women's health continued to improve in 2024, with maternal health services expanding, according to a statistical monitoring report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.

According to the report on the implementation of the China Women's Development Program (2021-2030), the maternal mortality rate last year was 14.3 cases per 100,000 people, 5.3 percent lower than the 2023 target.

The rate of premarital medical examinations reached 77.1 percent in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous year, the report says.

In 2024, China launched an assessment plan to help local health institutions improve their treatment systems and enhance their capacity to treat pregnant and postpartum women in emergency or critical conditions.

According to the document, this has helped to create a comprehensive, multi-level and effectively coordinated rescue system, thereby improving the ability to provide emergency care to pregnant women to ensure their safety.

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A large-scale high-altitude photovoltaic project has been successfully commissioned in Sichuan Province.

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CHENGDU, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — A pilot project under the Jinsha River Upper Reaches New Energy Initiative was successfully put into operation and connected to the power grid on Tuesday.

The photovoltaic power plant (PVP) in Batan County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, southwest China, was developed by China Huadian Corporation Ltd., a major state-owned power company. The PVP has a capacity of 1.2 million kW and is a key project of China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).

The project, located at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,100 meters above sea level in Batane, covers an area of approximately 25,000 mu (1,666.7 hectares) and consists of 2.17 million photovoltaic modules. The main infrastructure includes 122 kilometers of transmission lines and two 220-kilovolt smart substations.

Throughout construction, the project overcame a number of technical challenges, including exposure to high-altitude conditions, ice, earthquakes, and the stability of frozen soil foundations. These successes provided valuable experience for the development of large-scale photovoltaic projects in high-altitude regions.

As an important part of the clean energy base in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, the project created more than 2,000 jobs for local residents during construction, achieving a balance between construction, environmental protection, and improving the well-being of the residents.

Once operational, the project is expected to provide Central China with 2.1 billion kWh of clean electricity annually. This will offset 640,000 tons of equivalent coal consumption and prevent 1.7 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Its contribution will be critical to ensuring national energy security, optimizing the energy mix, promoting coordinated regional development, and achieving the country's goals of achieving carbon neutrality and peaking carbon emissions.

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On January 1, meteor activity from the comet 255P/Levy cannot be ruled out.

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On January 1, 2026, at around 12:46 UT, weak activity from the trail of comet 255P/Levy, which it ejected in 1897, cannot be ruled out. According to calculations, this trail will pass at a distance of 0.00296 AU from Earth, the particle ejection velocity is high – 42.7 m/s, and the density is quite low – 21.9% of the density of the Leonid trail of one revolution (this means that the particles were ejected by the comet during its next perihelion and managed to make one revolution in orbit on their own, already as meteoric particles).

These parameters indicate a low probability of any noticeable visual activity, but this case is still recommended for observational verification. Estimated radiant: RA=329.9°, DEC=59.6°.

If this burst occurs at the indicated time, it will be visible primarily in the Asian part of Eurasia, as well as across much of northern North America and Greenland. Unfortunately, the nearly full Moon, at 88% phase, could significantly interfere with observations.

If the comet 255P/Levy exhibits meteor activity, meteors can be observed visually or using photo and video equipment with wide-angle lenses.

No meteor activity from this comet had previously been observed, so this event is of scientific interest: astrophysicists have a unique opportunity to record the activity of a new stream.

Comet 255P/Levy is a short-period comet (with an orbital period of approximately 5 years) of the Jupiter family. It was discovered on October 2, 2006, by Canadian amateur astronomer David Levy. The comet's next perihelion is expected in 2027.

Material prepared by: Mikhail Maslov, engineer at the Vega Observatory of Novosibirsk State University

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China to see sustained improvement in child health in 2024

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BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China's child health indicators continued to improve in 2024, along with the country's steady progress in preschool education, according to a statistical monitoring report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.

According to the Report on the Implementation of the National Child Development Program of China (2021-2030), in 2024, the neonatal mortality rate in China will decrease to 2.5 per thousand (the number of deaths per 1,000), and the infant mortality rate and the mortality rate of children under five will decrease to 4.0 per thousand and 5.6 per thousand, respectively, which is 0.3, 0.5 and 0.6 per thousand less than in 2023.

The report said that by the end of 2024, there were 3,073 maternal and child health institutions and 162 children's hospitals in China.

According to the document, the rate of passing random inspections of infant formula for food safety reached 99.88 percent in 2024.

The report notes that China's pre-primary education gross enrollment rate in 2024 was 92.0 percent, up 0.9 percentage points from 2023.

According to the document, in 2024, 5.485 million messages containing illegal and harmful online information threatening children were brought to the attention of competent authorities and appropriate measures were taken. -0-

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China's manufacturing PMI in December 2025 was 50.1

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BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.1 in December 2025, up 0.9 percentage points from November, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. -0-

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The digital economy, cultural industry, and tourism sector's share of China's GDP increased in 2024.

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BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — The added value of China's major industries, the digital economy, cultural industry and tourism sector, increased its share in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.

In 2024, the added value of the main sectors of China's digital economy reached 14 trillion yuan (approximately 1.99 billion trillion US dollars), accounting for 10.5 percent of the country's GDP, compared to 9.9 percent in 2023.

The added value of the country's cultural and related industries amounted to about 6.2 trillion yuan, or 4.61 percent of GDP, an increase of 0.02 percentage points compared to 2023.

By the end of 2024, the similar indicator of the tourism sector and related industries in China reached 5.86 trillion yuan, amounting to 4.35 percent of GDP and increasing by 0.11 percentage points year-on-year. -0-

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China successfully launched two new satellites

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WENCHANG, HAINAN, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China successfully launched two new satellites from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province on Wednesday.

The Shijian-29A and Shijian-29B satellites were launched by the Long March-7A carrier rocket at 6:40 a.m. Beijing Time and successfully entered their planned orbits.

The new satellites will primarily be used to conduct validation tests of new technologies for detecting space targets.

This launch was the 623rd for the Long March family of launch vehicles. -0-

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Top stories today | Tuesday: Children in conflict, Ukraine, DR Congo, Sudan

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December 30, 2025 UN

The top news of the day at the UN and around the world: the UN calls for improving the situation for children in crisis zones by 2026; Ukraine has suffered nearly 43 percent of all attacks on healthcare facilities worldwide; sexual violence against children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become systemic; and tens of thousands of children in Sudan's Northern Darfur suffer from acute malnutrition.

Children in armed conflicts

"My place is not in armed conflict." These words from a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are addressed to world leaders. They were quoted in a New Year's message by the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Vanessa Fraser. She noted that in 2025, children in conflict zones, including the DRC, Gaza, Haiti, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, and Ukraine, were victims of horrific violations. And in 2024, the highest number of grave violations against children was recorded. Fraser called on the international community to act decisively to improve the situation of children in crisis zones in the coming year.

Ukraine: Attacks on medical facilities

Ukraine's healthcare system continues to suffer as a result of the fighting. Last weekend, a strike damaged a medical facility in the city of Izmail in the Odessa region. Overall, in 2025, Ukraine accounted for nearly 43 percent of all attacks on healthcare facilities worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), attacks on medical personnel and healthcare facilities limit access to essential care, especially in frontline areas where primarily elderly people with chronic illnesses reside.

Violence against children in the DRC

Sexual violence against children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become a "systemic and entrenched crisis" that is rapidly worsening, according to a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Cases of violence are being recorded in all provinces of the country, and their number has increased sharply since 2022. It is estimated that over 35,000 cases of sexual violence against children were recorded in the DRC in the first nine months of 2025 alone. In 2024, this figure reached almost 45,000, tripling the figure two years earlier.

Malnutrition in North Darfur

Data from the latest health survey of children in the Um Baru district of Sudan's North Darfur state shows that more than half of the children there suffer from acute malnutrition, experts from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported today. Many residents of the district are recently displaced families who fled the escalation of fighting in El Fasher in late October. North Darfur remains the epicenter of the crisis in Sudan: by November of this year, nearly 85,000 children in the state had been hospitalized with severe malnutrition. UNICEF calls on all parties to ensure immediate and unimpeded humanitarian access so that civilians can receive the assistance they need.

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