Screenshot: Video clip of 75th anniversary celebration across China
Xi vows greater national achievements, contributions to world peace - CGTN
President Xi Jinping said on Monday that Chinese people will score more remarkable achievements and make greater contributions to the noble cause of peace and development of humanity.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
China's National Day falls on October 1.
Foreign officials, experts send founding anniversary wishes to China - CGTN
Officials from the Chinese embassy in numerous countries have held activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Guests from around the world at these events expressed their congratulations on the developments and achievements the country has made in the past 75 years.
How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China (bloomberg.com)
Washington blames China’s dominance of the solar industry on what are routinely dubbed “unfair trade practices.” But that’s just a comforting myth. China’s edge doesn’t come from a conspiratorial plot hatched by an authoritarian government. It hasn’t been driven by state-owned manufacturers, subsidized loans to factories, tariffs on imported modules or theft of foreign technological expertise. Instead, it’s come from private businesses convinced of a bright future, investing aggressively and luring global talent to a booming industry — exactly the entrepreneurial mix that made the US an industrial powerhouse.
Car dealers in crisis - by Mingyin Xie and Yuxuan JIA (eastisread.com)
The report also highlights that automobile dealers are currently experiencing significant losses in new car sales, with widespread cash flow deficits and an increasing risk of liquidity breakdowns, making it difficult for them to escape the survival crisis. Two primary issues are currently at play: first, weak consumer demand combined with pressure from manufacturers' wholesale volumes is keeping dealer inventories high. In an attempt to alleviate financial pressure and reduce borrowing costs, dealers are forced to sell at low prices to survive. Second, the "price wars" have led to severe "upside-down pricing," whereby the purchase price exceeds the sale price. As the number of transactions condealers conduct increases, their losses intensify, while they simultaneously encounter challenges in fulfilling their financing obligations. This situation has resulted in a severe cash flow crisis for dealers, with their available working capital reduced to the bare minimum.
Seventh Chinese Medical Team Ready To Assist At QEH | GIS (gisbarbados.gov.bb)
As part of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in October 2016 between Barbados and the People’s Republic of China, the seventh medical team from China has arrived to assist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
The medical team, comprising 13 persons, arrived September 22, led by the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission’s Deputy Director-General, Xing Yaxi.
H. E. YAN Xiusheng, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Barbados for the past seven years, demits office and returns to Beijing next week. On behalf of the ABCF, the Executive of the Association records its gratitude for the unwavering support we have received from Ambassador Yan and the staff of the PRC embassy in Barbados, for our inaugural reception and for every one of the Association’s activities ever since.
ABCF delegates are in Beijing for the Sixth China-Latin America and the Caribbean Friendship Forum
Aliah-Rose Taitt arrived in Beijing early Friday morning to join Joshua Johnson, who is currently a graduate student at Tsinghua University in Beijing. They are the ABCF delegates to the Friendship Forum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, October 13 – 16. The delegates to the forum will first attend the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, to be held in Beijing from October 9 to 16.
Tips for travel to China from Reading the China Dream - Blog
A couple of notes for readers planning trips to China.
For phone service, I used eSim (you have to have a fairly recent, top-end phone) and Airalo (a company that provides eSim services) and my phone was perfect throughout (you don’t have a Chinese phone number, or any phone number, but you have WeChat and WhatsApp and can phone through them if necessary). I use Astrill VPN, but did not turn it on for my phone, because what eSim and Airalo do is connect you to Internet service providers in China, so of course I did not want to block that. I don’t know why, but Google services worked like a charm on my phone from start to finish; I could even listen to Spotify on the Beijing subway. The only downside was that a Chinese phone number remains necessary for certain apps, and you don’t have one, but there are sometimes workarounds if you are persistent. I turned the Astrill VPN on for my laptop, otherwise no Google, so for me, no life. Everything worked like a charm most of the time.
In order to promote tourism, the Chinese government now allows foreigners to pay via WeChat (Weixin) and Alipay (here’s a Youtube video that I did not watch on how to do this). All you have to do is enter your credit card number and you’re ready to go. You may have to do things twice, and there are a couple of bugs here and there (you can order cars and cabs through the Alipay service, but not Weixin, because Weixin requires a Chinese phone number, which a friend might loan you), but in my case it was worked 99% of the time, a very welcome change from last year.
Table tennis and road tennis will be the focus of the sixth forum in the webinar series organised by youth of the ABCF and students of the Zhejiang International Studies University in Hangzhou, China. The forum will be convened by Zoom on Friday November 29, 2024 at 9:00pm in Barbados (Atlantic Standard Time), which is 9:00am November 30 in Hangzhou, exactly twelve hours ahead of Barbados. Mark your calendar and keep an eye out for details of the event.
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This compilation is put together by DeLisle Worrell, President of the ABCF. Visit us at Association for Barbados China Friendship | (abcf-bb.com).
Thanks to everyone who sent contributions for this week’s Update. Please send items of interest to me via the contact page at ABCF-BB.com or to info@DeLisleWorrell.com.
The ABCF mission is to build a deeper understanding between the Chinese people and Barbadians and Caribbean people from all walks of life. The association’s focus is on personal experiences, people-to-people contact, cultural exchanges and exchanges of ideas, and the facilitation of travel, business and study. From the outset we aim to learn from and build on the experiences of the Caribbean and China, and to develop mutual understandings and support that will be to the benefit of both sides.
