Beijing plans to proactively cultivate new tourism paradigms, such as incorporating sports and integrating film and television into the tourism industry, according to the government work report presented during the third session of the 16th Beijing Municipal People's Congress this week.
The annual plenary session of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, the city's legislative body, concluded on Saturday.
Shanghai is expected to invest 240 billion yuan ($32.74 billion) in major construction projects in 2025, according to the Shanghai Municipal Government Work Report delivered by Mayor Gong Zheng.
Beijing plans to add 20,000 primary and secondary school seats in 2025 to reduce the placement squeeze and ensure access to quality education for more students, according to Yin Yong, Beijing's mayor, who spoke during the third session of the 16th Beijing Municipal People's Congress on Tuesday.
Chang'an township in Dongguan, a major manufacturing hub in Guangdong province, has joined the"100 billion yuan town" club in the province, propelled by robust industrial growth, according to a local government work report.
Hunan province aims to further enhance its technological development and self-reliance this year by achieving breakthroughs in its 10 most important technologies, Governor Mao Weiming said.
Despite facing a complex and challenging external environment, Zhejiang achieved its main socioeconomic development targets in 2024, with the province's GDP growing by approximately 5.5 percent.
In the freezing winter, on the fringes of the Kubuqi Desert in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, dedicated sand control workers are busy mending and reinforcing defenses in the form of straw checkerboards -- featuring straw placed in a checkerboard pattern on the desert surface to secure dunes.