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BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — China has made steady progress in green agricultural development, according to the China Green Agricultural Development Report 2024 released at a seminar in Beijing on Friday.

The report was published by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the China Society for the Study of Green Agricultural Development. At the launch of the report, Huang Sanwen, president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the report plays an important role in supporting the further implementation of the country's green development concept and serves as a valuable guide for promoting high-quality agricultural and rural development characterized by lean and intensive, green and low-carbon development with priority on ecological protection.

According to the document, significant progress was made in many areas in 2024. China continued to improve the quality and efficiency of high-standard farmland construction, strengthened the protection of the ecological environment of arable land and combated pollution. In 2024, the area of high-standard farmland was increased by more than 80 million mu (about 5.33 million hectares) through the construction of new farmland and the reconstruction and upgrading of existing arable land.

In 2024, China actively promoted the third national soil survey, which collected 3.11 million samples from 2.872 million sampling points, the document said.

In addition, the system for protecting and managing biological agricultural resources has been improved. According to the results of the All-China Census of Agricultural Genetic Resources conducted in 2024, 580,000 samples of the gene pool of agricultural crops, 1.4 million units of genetic material of agricultural animals and poultry, and 270,000 strains of agricultural microorganisms are permanently preserved in the country.

The reduction in the use of chemicals was achieved by strengthening relevant measures. According to the report, in 2024, China used 49.88 million tons of chemical fertilizers, down 5 percent from 2020. In 2024, the volume of pesticide use in crop production was 242 thousand tons (in terms of pure active ingredient), maintaining a downward trend for the eighth consecutive year.

According to the report, China has continued to improve the level of mechanization in agriculture. In 2024, the overall mechanization level of plowing, sowing and harvesting of agricultural crops exceeded 75 percent.

The report also highlighted the steady growth of rural income. In 2024, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in China was 23,119 yuan (about $3,220), up 6.3 percent in real terms from the previous year and 1.9 percentage points higher than the growth rate of per capita urban income in real terms.

Progress has also been made in digital management of agricultural resources. China continues to systematically digitalize agricultural resource management and strengthens the capacity of long-term fixed experimental observation stations to promote sustainable green agricultural development, the document said. -0-

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UNITED NATIONS, July 19 (Xinhua) — Daily fighting, preventable deaths, worsening fuel shortages, displacement and despair are increasingly turning mass shortages into the norm for residents of the Gaza Strip, the United Nations humanitarian body said Friday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Israeli authorities had issued another population displacement order, this time to northern Gaza. There were also alarming reports of malnourished children and adults in hospitals with insufficient resources to treat them.

According to OCHA, despite the resumption of limited fuel imports, the energy crisis continues to deepen. Due to the depletion of fuel reserves, solid waste collection has had to be suspended in recent days, and a number of water wells have been shut down, mainly in the Deir el-Balah area.

It is noted that specialized medical services such as dialysis have been reduced or completely stopped, and other services may also be disrupted due to fuel shortages. The limited remaining fuel supplies are mainly used to ensure the functioning of health systems, water supply, telecommunications, and transportation.

Humanitarian movements inside the Gaza Strip remain restricted as only seven out of 13 attempts to coordinate the movement of personnel and cargo with the Israeli authorities were successful, allowing humanitarian teams to deliver fuel, collect water, move generators, provide hygiene and sanitation supplies, and deliver much-needed medicines, OCHA said. –0–

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MEXICO CITY, July 18 (Xinhua) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday strongly opposed the construction of a new section of wall on the border with the United States in New Mexico, calling it a unilateral move by Washington.

At a daily press conference, she stressed that Mexico is in no way involved in the project and does not provide funding.

"They are building it themselves. We do not support the wall. We have secured the border through cooperation and coordination, not through walls," said K. Sheinbaum.

According to her, the decision to build the wall belongs exclusively to US President Donald Trump. Mexico gives preference to cooperation based on development and respect for Mexicans living in the US, the head of state noted.

The Trump administration this week began a new phase of construction on an additional border fence between Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico. The project includes 6 miles of 30-foot-tall steel posts installed behind an older 18-foot-tall fence. –0–

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UNITED NATIONS, July 19 (Xinhua) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed an independent scientific panel of experts to study the physical impact and social consequences of a nuclear war, a spokesman for the world body said on Friday.

“The creation of this group of 21 experts is a response to a global situation in which the risk of nuclear war has reached its highest level since the Cold War,” UN Secretary-General’s deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said at a daily briefing.

Experts will need to study the consequences at the local, regional and planetary levels, both in the first days and weeks and for decades after a nuclear war, he said.

F. Hack noted that the group members are leading experts in their scientific fields and represent all regions of the world.

The group's first meeting will take place in September this year, and its final report will be presented to the UN General Assembly in 2027, he added. –0–

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WASHINGTON, July 19 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against several news companies on Friday, according to court records.

The lawsuit was filed in a Miami, Florida, court against two Wall Street Journal reporters, as well as news companies Dow Jones, News Corp and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

The reason for this step was an article in the Wall Street Journal describing a congratulatory letter, allegedly from D. Trump to financier Jeffrey Epstein. It was sent in 2003 for the birthday of J. Epstein, who was accused of sexual exploitation of minors. The letter contained a drawing that allegedly had a sexual connotation.

D. Trump denied the article and said the congratulatory message was fake. He warned on social media that he planned to sue.

"Mr. Murdoch said he would take care of this, but apparently he had no authority to do so… Instead, they publish a false, malicious, defamatory story anyway. President Trump will soon sue the Wall Street Journal, News Corp, and Mr. Murdoch," Trump wrote earlier on Truth Social. -0-

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GUANGZHOU, July 19 (Xinhua) — South China's Guangdong Province's import and export volumes hit a record high in January-June 2025, compared with the same periods in previous years, according to data from the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs.

Guangdong Province's total foreign trade reached 4.55 trillion yuan (about 633.9 billion U.S. dollars), up 4 percent year on year and 1.1 percentage points higher than China's average growth rate. Exports totaled 2.89 trillion yuan, up 1.1 percent year on year, while imports surged 9.5 percent to 1.66 trillion yuan.

Since the third quarter of 2023, Guangdong Province has maintained positive growth for eight consecutive quarters. Trade forms have been continuously optimized. In the first half of 2025, the proportion of imports and exports carried out in the form of general trade was about 60%. The import and export volume of bonded logistics business was 912.62 billion yuan, an increase of 14% year on year, exceeding that of processing trade.

During the reporting period, Guangdong Province registered 130,000 foreign trade enterprises that actually carried out imports and exports, more than 9,000 more than the same period a year earlier. In particular, the number of non-state enterprises reached about 110,000, accounting for 84 percent of the total number of foreign trade enterprises, and their turnover exceeded 60 percent of the province's total foreign trade.

Guangdong Province's trading partners are becoming more diversified. In the first half of the year, Guangdong's foreign trade with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative amounted to 1.79 trillion yuan, up 3.8 percent. At the same time, the province's trade with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the European Union, Taiwan, Japan and the Republic of Korea also increased. In addition, trade with Africa and the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan) grew by 8.5 percent and 23.1 percent, respectively, exceeding the overall figure.

Guangdong Province's high-tech and branded product exports continue to grow. The export volume of electromechanical products increased by 7.2 percent to reach 1.96 trillion yuan, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the province's total export volume. Meanwhile, the export volume of products under its own brands amounted to 655.27 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2 percent.

Thanks to the expansion of domestic demand, imports of electromechanical products increased by 19.3 percent in January-June 2025, reaching 1.16 trillion yuan, accounting for 70 percent of the province's total imports. In addition, imports of consumer goods including food, cosmetics and personal care products also increased. -0-

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HANGZHOU, July 19 (Xinhua) — Lishui International Airport in southern east China's Zhejiang Province officially opened for business on Friday.

On the same day in the afternoon, the first flight, CA1873, from Beijing Capital International Airport arrived at the airport and landed successfully.

The new facility, which has the status of a domestic regional airport, is designed to service up to 1 million passengers and handle 4 thousand tons of cargo per year. The runway is 2800 meters long, the area of the terminal buildings is 12 thousand square meters.

The opening of Lishui Airport will enhance the city's role as an important transportation hub, improve services for 470,000 overseas residents and 2.7 million local residents, attract more tourists to Lishui's scenic areas, and create conditions for increased investment in the city and surrounding areas, said Luo Xiaolin, head of the local transportation bureau.

On its first day of operation, the airport opened flights to Beijing and Shanghai. Flights to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Guiyang, Chongqing and Chengdu are planned to be launched by the end of the year. The number of air routes is expected to exceed 10 by the end of 2025, and reach 14 in 2026. -0-

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 19 (Xinhua) — The BRICS mechanism is becoming a powerful driving force for reform of the global governance system, British scholar Martin Jacques said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

While existing global institutions “largely privilege the West,” Jacques noted, “the goal of BRICS is not to replace them, but to reform the system – the way it functions, the forms of representation, and so on.”

The scholar called the group's expansion in recent years "a very important development," noting that it now "represents the vast majority of the world's population who live in developing countries." Its role as a platform for exchange and cooperation between countries in the Global South is therefore becoming increasingly visible, he said.

However, M. Jacques acknowledged, this wider platform also creates new difficulties.

“How does BRICS – which has recently expanded, so it has changed a lot, its dynamics are different – give shape and strength to the BRICS views on the reforms that are needed?” he asked.

“The association must find forms of representation and channels through which it can exert its influence,” he added.

Looking to the future, M. Jacques noted that the long-term goal of BRICS is to enable developing countries to play a more significant role in shaping global governance.

“Let’s say the ultimate goal is for the Global South to become a core element of global governance,” he suggested.

The British scholar also highlighted China's role in forming and maintaining the BRICS mechanism, noting that Beijing played a decisive role in guiding its development, especially before the expansion of the association.

"China's role was decisive. Without China, this would not have happened and could not have happened," he commented.

"China's weight – its economic weight – is decisive," said M. Jacques. "But also China's strategic concept. Because of its power and independence, China has a very independent mentality," the scientist added.

Speaking at the BRICS Media and Think Tank Forum this week, M. Jacques noted the importance of promoting a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the BRICS mechanism.

Intellectual and media interaction can play a decisive role in shaping its evolving identity, he stressed.

“I think we need to understand BRICS better. We need to listen to people from different countries – how they see it and what they bring to it,” he said. “That’s how you can develop the culture of the organization,” the scientist noted.

Like any significant international institution, BRICS needs a constant process of reflection and self-determination, he added.

“The organization must have some kind of self-realization – a constant renewal of the understanding of what it is,” said the British scientist. “The association of journalists, reporters, editors, intellectuals and so on is a very good idea for this. I think it is necessary,” added M. Jacques. –0–

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BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — The Tianjin Vocational Institute (TVI) in northern China recently completed training for the first group of teachers who will work at the second Lu Ban Workshop in Kazakhstan, the Tianjin Daily newspaper reported.

The course participants included 15 teachers from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) in Astana, Kazakhstan. During the artificial intelligence (AI) training, which started on June 23, they studied four core disciplines – data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and industrial internet – and also received practical training in AI-related technologies, a collaborative robot, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Last year, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between TPI and ENU on the joint creation of the second Lu Ban Workshop in Kazakhstan, which will focus on AI. The first such institution in this country, founded with the support of TPI and aimed at training specialists in the field of transport and communications, was put into trial operation in 2023.

As the teacher of this training, TPI teacher Li Guohui said: “We specially designed these training courses aimed at the industrial development of Kazakhstan. In particular, according to the scenarios of UAV technology application in local agricultural activities, the cadets from Kazakhstan not only learned flight control, but also completed a series of practical tasks, including mapping agricultural land.”

He added that the first batch of training equipment intended for the second Lu Ban Workshop in Kazakhstan had already been delivered to the country, and installation and commissioning work would soon begin.

Lu Ban Workshop, named after the famous ancient Chinese craftsman Lu Ban, is a brand of international vocational education initiated and promoted by Tianjin City Government.

To date, China has built 34 Lu Ban Workshops in 30 countries and regions around the world. 10 of them were established in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Pakistan, Cambodia, Egypt and other SCO countries. -0-

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BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — With global supply chains undergoing major restructuring, the ongoing China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) acts as a catalyst for enhancing supply chain resilience, Zhou Xing, head of public affairs at PwC China, told Xinhua on Thursday.

As the world's first national-level platform dedicated to supply chains, the expo helps build connections between Chinese and international companies, promote technical coordination and deepen economic cooperation, Zhou Xing said.

According to her, CISCE provides a highly effective meeting platform and enables companies to align technologies, standards and markets, promoting global collaboration.

For Chinese companies, the expo provides an opportunity to expand their international presence and directly connect with global supply chain hubs. For multinational companies, it provides an opportunity to gain access to China’s vast market, mature industrial ecosystem, and strong policy support.

Global supply chains are shifting from a model focused solely on efficiency to one that prioritizes sustainability. Companies are diversifying their supply networks to balance cost and security, turning to regional clusters while maintaining global coordination, Zhou Xing argues.

According to her, in the context of accelerating digital transformation, technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are breaking down information barriers, increasing the speed and accuracy of the entire supply chain.

“Green standards, including carbon tracking and sustainability metrics, are becoming necessary across all industries. Supply chains are evolving from linear models to cross-industry ecosystems, especially in emerging sectors such as the low-altitude economy,” said Zhou Xing.

“China is playing an increasingly important role in this shift,” she said. “It is no longer just a manufacturing base, but an innovation hub. By integrating digital tools and investing in strategic sectors such as electric vehicles, renewable energy, and biotechnology, China is strengthening its position in global value chains.”

The government's commitment to developing new-quality productive forces is also changing corporate strategies. According to her, this policy priority is driving environmental and digital transformation across all industries.

Zhou Xing expressed confidence that China's business environment remains very attractive for multinational companies looking to restructure their supply chains.

The country's institutional openness, market scale and leadership in green and digital technologies provide a solid foundation for transformation, she added.

Identifying growth areas such as advanced manufacturing, low-carbon industries and digital and physical integration, Zhou Xing said they are in line with both China's industrial upgrading goals and global trends, making the country a key destination for supply chains in the future.

“China offers the space, political stability and innovative momentum that global businesses crave,” she said, adding that “venues like the China International Supply Chain Expo are helping businesses from all sides navigate uncertainty and achieve new growth.” –0–

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