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.
More than 350,000 international visitors entered Hainan province visa-free last year, a 283 percent increase year-on-year, according to Yu Wenzhong, deputy director of the Office of the Free Trade Port Working Committee of the Communist Party of China Hainan Provincial Committee.
Hunan, a major grain production hub in China, is ramping up efforts to ensure food security, with plans to maintain its grain sown area above 4.76 million hectares this year while adding or upgrading more than 200,000 hectares of high-quality arable land, Governor Mao Weiming said on Tuesday.
Optimizing the industrial structure and promoting the integration of industry and technology to develop new productive forces contributed to steady economic growth in Guangdong province in 2024, a senior official said on Wednesday at the province's annual legislative meeting in Guangzhou.
Shanghai's GDP is expected to grow around 5 percent in 2025, with science and technology innovation serving as a key engine to drive growth toward a prosperous and resilient future, Mayor Gong Zheng said on Wednesday.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Chinese capital, Beijing, increased about 5.2 percent year-on-year in 2024, mayor Yin Yong said Tuesday.
Beijing has been expanding its green spaces with new parks built and more trees planted in 2024, government figures show.