Monthly archives: January, 2019

China’s aviation industry embraces digital era

  A passenger tests paperless services for a flight to Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific Airways in Shanghai Pudong Airport in October of 2018. Photo:VCG   A girl from China Southern Airlines introduces paperless services to customers in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in May of 2018. Photo: VCG China’s civil aviation industry is accelerating its …

Man in Gansu sentenced to 5 years for illegally publishing 9,750 books

Photo: VCG   A farmer in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, has been sentenced to five years in prison for illegal business operations after he printed more than 9,000 illegal books.  The Intermediate People’s Court of Linxia recently handed down its final verdict, confirming the original sentence given to Ma Wenwen, the …

Operation Earth seeks teenage volunteers for its climate change conservation programs

International Forum of Operation Earth on Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation. Photo: Operation Earth  A plan to recruit teenagers as volunteers to help tackle global climate change was launched by Operation Earth at an international forum on climate change and biodiversity conservation held Thursday in Beijing. Operation Earth is a non-profit organization committed to global …

AirAsia banks on Chinese demand for Southeast Asian

Tail of AirAsia X plane as seen at the Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia in Tangerang, Indonesia, September 20, 2017. Photo: VCG Malaysian budget airline group AirAsia is ramping up efforts to expand flights between Chinese mainland cities and Southeast Asian destinations, banking on the booming demand of Southeast Asian travel destinations for Chinese tourists.  Shirley …

China’s property tax plan could emerge for 2019: top expert

China’s long-delayed plan to collect property tax, one of the country’s biggest efforts to curb a swelling real estate market, could make headway this year, according to a top tax law expert in China.  Property tax legislation could be submitted for review by China’s top lawmaking body, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), said …

Shaanxi forest coverage rate to reach 45 pct by 2020

The forest coverage rate of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province will reach 45 percent by 2020, according to Shaanxi forestry bureau. The province’s forest growing stock volume will reach 500 million cubic meters by 2020, with areas of nature reserves under protection accounting for over 7.4 percent of its land area. The area of its wetlands …