Talking about New Economic Opportunities in China | Injecting valuable increment and innovation vitality into the world economy.

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 30thTitle: Inject valuable increment and innovation vitality into the world economy continuously.

  Xinhua news agency reporter

  Editor’s Note: Under the background of weak world economic recovery, China’s economy has attracted worldwide attention for its remarkable development resilience and certainty. Xinhua News Agency will open a column entitled "Talking about New Economic Opportunities in China" from now on, inviting people from political circles, business circles and academic circles from all over the world to talk about new economic opportunities in China, discuss new economic vitality in China, and tell a new win-win story between China and foreign countries, so as to present the vigorous vitality and bright prospects of China’s economy from a global perspective and multiple perspectives.

  Recently, the 2023 Annual Meeting of China Development Forum and the 2023 Annual Meeting of Boao Forum for Asia were held in Beijing and Hainan. At a time when the world economy is struggling to recover, the bright future of China’s economy has attracted much attention and expectation from all walks of life.

  Many overseas guests and executives of multinational companies in China said that from a global perspective, China’s economic development this year has shown remarkable resilience and certainty, which has continuously injected valuable incremental and innovative vitality into the world economy and constantly created new opportunities for win-win cooperation between China and foreign countries.

  Development prospect: effectively hedging global instability

  Since the beginning of this year, international organizations have intensively raised China’s economic growth expectations, among which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that China’s economy will grow by 5.2% this year.

  IMF Managing Director Georgieva, who attended the 2023 annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia, said on the 29th that China’s economic development momentum is good, and its contribution rate to world economic growth is expected to exceed one third this year, which will provide important opportunities for other countries.

  According to the latest research report of Citigroup, under the recent banking crisis in Europe and America, China will be more distinctive due to the accelerated economic growth, which may become a "major hedging factor" conducive to global economic growth and highlight its role as a "safe haven".

  "Anchor of stability!" Kang Yong, chief economist of KPMG China, an internationally renowned accounting firm, described the role of China’s economy in global challenges. He told reporters that during the COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, China withstood the pressure and effectively guaranteed the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain. This year, China’s strong economic growth will be very commendable and contribute greatly to the stable recovery of the world economy.

  Gu Yushao, global senior vice president of Medtronic, a fortune 500 company headquartered in the United States, said that China has continuously improved its business environment in recent years, and enterprises are full of confidence in China’s economic development prospects. In the new year, the international community expects China to continue to play an important role in the global industrial chain supply chain and inject more vitality into economic globalization.

  Market vitality: sharing new development opportunities with the world

  In recent years, China has made great efforts to promote high-quality development, expand high-level opening to the outside world, and constantly release innovation vitality and opening dividends, which has been praised by overseas people, especially investors from all over the world.

  "I am willing to continue to develop in China and make progress with China." Kang Linsong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of German Mercedes-Benz Group Co., Ltd., said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency that China has the largest automobile market in the world, and the pace of innovation is very fast. Consumers have shown high acceptance of technological innovation, which is one of the markets that truly test the frontier advantages of the automobile industry.

  At present, Mercedes-Benz has set up R&D centers in Beijing and Shanghai, and has the most comprehensive R&D network in the innovation field outside the German headquarters in China. Kang Linsong believes that China’s opening-up strategy has released market vitality and helped market participants to flourish in China. R&D and innovation in China are very important for multinational enterprises.

  According to Fabry, President of L ‘Oré al North Asia and CEO of China, China is not only an important engine for business growth, but also a driving force for open innovation.

  Today, China has become one of L ‘Oré al’s most important markets in the world. Last year, the global cosmetics giant also announced the establishment of its first investment company in China, aiming to explore potential innovative enterprises with more China partners, foster forward-looking innovations and promote their commercialization.

  Carl Fei, a strategy professor at BI Norwegian Business School, told reporters at the annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia that China has a huge market and is open to new things, and the application of new technologies in China is very fast.

  He believes that the achievements made by China in the field of science and technology in the past decade are amazing, showing the great potential of China. In recent years, China has continuously promoted the construction of a green "Belt and Road" and helped many developing countries in the fields of light rail transportation and green energy.

  Win-win vision: a new chapter of multi-field collaborative development spectrum

  This year marks the tenth anniversary of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative. In the past ten years, the international influence and coverage of China’s programs represented by the "Belt and Road Initiative" have been expanding, which has made the concept of coordinated development and win-win cooperation more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

  Bei Zhemin, managing partner of Oliver Wyman Consulting, is the author of The New Silk Road: How the Arab World Rediscovers China. He told reporters at the 2023 annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia on the 29th that many countries in the Middle East are willing to cooperate with China in the fields of digital economy and clean energy.

  Bei Zhemin said that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has effectively promoted multilateral cooperation and promoted the coordinated development of Asia and regions along the route. Especially in Southeast Asia, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has brought a large number of industrial parks, ports and other facilities, which has strongly supported the development of global manufacturing.

  Hu Yishan, chief consultant of Malaysian Pacific Studies Center who has participated in Boao Forum for Asia for many years, said that China attaches importance to multilateralism and fair economic cooperation, especially through the Belt and Road Initiative, which has established a solid foundation for cooperation and effectively promoted regional development. At the same time, the practice and experience of high-quality economic development in China are also worth learning from many countries.

  Rehnert Bekotur Wolfe, President of Astana International Financial Center, said that China has made great achievements in economic development in the past few decades, showing the world a successful development story. Nowadays, under the guidance of high-quality "One Belt, One Road", new projects and new investments have landed in Kazakhstan and other countries, which continue to help improve local economic development and people’s living standards. (Participating reporters: Fu Yunwei, Xu Chao, Su Liang, Shan Yiyi, Wang Pingping, He Lili, Wang Xiangjiang, Liu Yanan, Mao Pengfei, Wang Yi, Liu Fang, Chen Yushan)

Immersive drama "1927 Guangzhou Uprising" audience actors performed a red drama.

  Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Huang An

  "This comrade, would you like to join me … …” As soon as the voice fell, the actor took the audience’s hand and walked into the museum, returning to the stormy Guangzhou Uprising in 1927 — — The 1927 Guangzhou Uprising, which is being performed in Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall, is an immersive drama created by Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum, which combines red culture education with art popularization. In just 45 minutes of performance, the audience shuttled with the actors in different areas of the museum, watching, feeling and experiencing the plot at zero distance. This innovative attempt made the memorial hall glow with new vitality and the number of receptionists surged.

  "Zero distance" touches history, and the audience becomes part of the performance.

  The Guangzhou Uprising in 1927 carried the banner of "Red Army of Workers and Peasants" for the first time in history, which set a precedent for urban-rural cooperation and armed uprising jointly held by workers, peasants and soldiers. The Soviet government in Guangzhou established in the uprising is known as "Paris Commune in the East".

  Guangzhou Uprising in 1927 is an immersive drama created by Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum based on the history of Guangzhou Uprising. The whole drama is based on the place where the Guangzhou Uprising once took place — — Guangzhou Commune is the stage, and the audience is there, touching the grandeur and passion of history at zero distance.

  In the first act of the performance, the Guangzhou uprising started. In the courtyard, characters such as "A Hui", "A Zheng", "Qiang Zi", "Hui Fang" and "Guo Hua" appeared one after another, calling on the audience to join their team. "Comrades, would you like to join me in the Guangzhou Uprising?" "I do!" The audience, already immersed in the historical situation, let go of their voices. Wearing the red cloth belt with the symbol of Guangzhou Uprising and taking the sickle and axe, the audience opened the door of history and started a dialogue with the revolutionary ancestors through time and space.

  With the development of the plot, there are more and more interactions between actors and audiences, and the viewing scenes are constantly changing. Sometimes, in the Tianzi Wharf where bullets rained, I felt the fierce struggle between the female soldiers and the enemies several times as many as myself; Sometimes in front of the bright red party flag, I relive the solemnity of the pledge to join the Party. In order to rescue the revolutionary, the audience divided into two ways, and all the way followed the workers and peasants in the play to attack the fortress. All the people felt the tension of the great shift of the battlefield in the hurried footsteps. After hard fighting, the Soviet government in Guangzhou was finally established. Amid the cheers, the audience and the leading actor sang "The Internationale" passionately, and the passionate songs fluttered high above the memorial hall.

  Walking out of the theater, the audience Ms. Su is still red-eyed. She told reporters that she was very moved: "I couldn’t help crying when I saw the scene of Huifang’s sacrifice. Without the sacrifice of revolutionary ancestors, there would be no happy life for us today." Xiao Wang, a post-90s generation, believes that replacing historical explanations with dramas is more vivid and lively, which makes young people closer to that period of history and realizes the revolutionary spirit of heroic ancestors who struggled hard and were not afraid of sacrifice.

  Speaking of the creation of this drama, Wang Yuhan, the general director of the drama, said that unlike the artistic concept of "above life" in traditional drama, works with red themes must strictly follow historical facts, and nothing inaccurate or untrue is allowed. To this end, the crew visited historical experts and related units, constantly combing, and finally changed eight drafts before setting the script.

  The bigger challenge is the design of the circuit. During the performance, the actors must lead the audience to shuttle up and down different exhibition halls. However, the space of the memorial hall is limited, and the beauty of music and dance is also limited. How to make the plot coherent under the constraints of the objective environment, and even a tree, a staircase and an exhibition hall can be used reasonably to serve the plot? In this regard, the crew went to the field for many times to explore and design, and finally solved the problems one by one.

  The main creation comes from the local folk troupe, and the post-90 s young people are the main force.

  Li Yuehui, the leading actor, recalled that there was a scene where he was standing by without his part. Suddenly an acquaintance came over and greeted him: "But I can’t jump out of the scene to talk to him. I have to be a role in the play. I can only pretend not to hear him and ignore him." "In the middle of another performance, a child suddenly hugged my thigh. He just liked your performance. At this time, I had to use the experience of the actor to improvise."

  Li Yuehui, who has been engaged in drama for more than 20 years, believes that immersive drama breaks the "fourth wall" of traditional drama viewing mode in performance form and blends actors and audiences in one atmosphere. Facing the audience close at hand and within reach, this tests the actor’s sense of faith and professionalism.

  Except Li Yuehui, most of the actors in the play are from Guangzhou folk professional drama performance groups — — Greek Troupe, which is dominated by young people, and 90% of them are professional actors who graduated from acting classes. Among them, Wang Fang, who plays "A Zheng", is a "post-90 s" who graduated from the Performance Department of Shenzhen University. In order to prepare for his role, he not only deeply understood the history of the Guangzhou Uprising, but also required himself to practice walking posture and eyes according to the standards of a soldier.

  Wang Fang said that acting in this drama is actually a vivid patriotic education for himself. He recalled that in a performance, he once met an old audience: "I needed to salute the audience in the play. When I saluted him, the old man gave me a military salute in particular, and my tears stopped."

  Speaking of this group of young people, the general director Wang Yuhan admits that he can feel their progress every day: "This performance requires the actors to have strong energy. At first, I was a little worried, but later I found that they were not bad at all. Some just graduated from college, and some came to apply for this troupe after working for several years, but they all had a passion for young people and their eyes were full of a desire to learn."

  Wang Yuhan said that these post-90 s and post-95 s actors will have a certain distance from that period of history. In order to let the actors understand the choices of the young people in the play, the actors first conducted training and study for about three months, and went to Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall and Huangpu Military Academy to study before they started rehearsing. In order to cultivate the actor’s ability to deal with the crisis, Wang Yuhan chatted with the actor every day ten days before the premiere to simulate possible problems. These young people are very active in thinking and will propose a good solution: "The experience of these twenty performances is not only valuable experience for them, but also a win-win thing."

  Activating history, the "red explosion" has received enthusiastic response.

  Together with Nanchang Uprising and Autumn Harvest Uprising, Guangzhou Uprising became a great beginning for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to lead the revolutionary war independently and create the people’s army. Guangzhou Uprising represents the revolutionary spirit of the people of Guangzhou who dare to fight and be the first, and also reflects the important historical position of Guangzhou in the modern revolutionary history, which is an important part of Guangzhou’s history and culture.

  As a story about the city and people of Guangzhou, The 1927 Guangzhou Uprising combines a lot of cultural elements of Guangfu. Participants can find familiar Guangzhou place names, classic songs, daily necessities and costumes with a sense of the times.

  It is reported that "1927 Guangzhou Uprising" has received enthusiastic response since its premiere in July, and the drama schedule in July will expire as soon as it is announced. Due to the limited space, 40 people are expected for each game, but in the end, 70 or 80 people will come. There is an old man the same age as New China — — Mr. Kong, after knowing the performance, specially came from Huangshi Road to watch it. In addition, the Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall also launched a special session for disabled people, primary school students, retired military personnel and other groups. As of August 14th, there were 20 performances, 46 reception groups and 1668 audiences.

  Chen Heyi, director of the mission department of Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum, said that the combination of red theme and immersive drama can be said to be the first in the country. At the end of each performance, volunteers will distribute questionnaires to the audience to collect their opinions and suggestions, and the museum will also hold meetings to discuss, exchange and constantly polish. Now this version has made great breakthroughs in all aspects, which can be said to be a leap from version 1.0 to version 3.0.

  Participation Mode of Guangzhou Uprising in 1927

  "1927 Guangzhou Uprising" was performed free of charge at the Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall. Interested audiences can pay attention to the performance schedule and make an appointment to participate through WeChat WeChat official account "Modern Guangzhou".

Anger is burning! Protest against black people being shot seven times by the police, and many sports events in the United States were postponed!

  [Global Network Reporter Hou Jiaxin] Black man Jacob Blake was fired seven times by the police, causing the anger caused by paralysis to spread to American sports. Three Major League Baseball (MLB) games were postponed because the team refused to play; Major League Soccer (MLS) announced the postponement of five games and American Men’s Professional Basketball League (NBA) announced the postponement of three playoff games … …

  According to a comprehensive report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Reuters, three MLB matches were postponed because the participating teams refused to play. According to reports, Major League Baseball Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Redskins all announced their refusal to attend Wednesday’s game to protest Blake’s violent law enforcement by the police.

  On the evening of 26th local time, MLB issued a statement saying: "Considering the pain and injury experienced by the Wisconsin community after the shooting of Jacob Blake, we respect the decision of many players not to participate in the competition tonight." The statement also mentioned: "MLB is still United and working hard to change our society, and we will be allies in fighting racism and injustice."

  In addition, MLS also announced the postponement of five games on the same day. Tennis star Naomi Osaka also announced on social media that she will not play in the 27 th match. She said: "It makes me uncomfortable to watch the police continue to slaughter black people."

  According to previous reports, the NBA playoffs between Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic scheduled for the afternoon of 26th were suspended because the Bucks refused to play. The NBA immediately announced that all three games of the day were postponed. Subsequently, a number of players tweeted to support the NBA decision and protest against police brutality. James, the star of the Lakers, directly condemned: We demand change! We’ve had enough!

  All these protests originated from a recent case of police brutality in Wisconsin. On August 23, local time, the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA fired at least 7 shots at the back of an African-American man, causing serious injuries. This incident subsequently led to a large-scale demonstration in the local area.

  A video widely circulated on local social media shows that on the afternoon of 23rd, when Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, walked to the driver’s seat and opened the door to get on the bus, he was grabbed by two policemen who followed him and fired at least 7 shots at his back at close range. Blake’s three children were sitting in the car at the time of the incident. Blake is seriously injured and is currently being treated in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

  According to previous news from the US media, Blake’s father revealed to the media that Blake was paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors don’t know whether paralysis is permanent.

Pensions in all 31 provinces have been raised. How much have you increased?

  Beijing, June 30 (Reporter Li Jinlei) With the announcement of the pension adjustment plan for 2021 in Sichuan, the pensions of 31 provinces have all been raised. How much did your pension go up?

  31 provinces raised pensions.

  On April 16, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance issued a notice on adjusting the basic pension for retirees in 2021, which kicked off the rise of pensions.

  According to the notice, the overall national adjustment ratio is determined according to 4.5% of the monthly basic pension for retirees in 2020. Each province takes the national overall adjustment ratio as the upper limit, and determines the adjustment ratio and level of the province.

  This is the "17 consecutive rises" of pensions. Since then, Shanghai was the first to announce the pension adjustment plan on May 12, and various places have also announced the pension adjustment plan one after another. By June 28, Sichuan announced the pension adjustment plan, and all the pension increases in 31 provinces have landed.

  How much did your pension go up?

  "I retired in 2020 and participated in the increase of pension for the first time this year. Before the increase, the pension was 3,631 yuan per month. In June, the amount of pension received was 4,353 yuan, and a total of 822 yuan was reissued, which means that the monthly pension increased by 137 yuan, an increase of about 3.8%." A retiree from Hunan shared with reporters the situation of his pension increase.

  According to the data of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in 2020, the per capita pension of enterprise retirees nationwide will be around 2,900 yuan. Some provinces have announced the per capita increase in pensions this year. According to the data released by Qinghai, after the adjustment, the monthly per capita basic pension of retirees in enterprises, institutions and institutions increased by about 196 yuan.

  It should be noted that 4.5% is the overall per capita level of basic pension adjustment for all retirees. The People’s Social Welfare Department of many places explained that for each retiree, due to different payment years and pension levels, the actual increase in the absolute amount of pension is different, and the corresponding proportion of personal pension is also different.

  Raise the pension in the way of "three combinations"

  At present, most provinces have reissued the increased pensions to their accounts. Sichuan, the last province to announce the pension adjustment plan, will pay the adjusted and increased pensions to retirees one after another from 19: 00 on June 28 to ensure that the adjusted and increased pensions will be paid to retirees before July 1.

  After receiving the rising pension, retirees should pay attention to the fact that the rising pension is not simply an increase of 4.5% on their own pension base, but a "three-in-one" method combining quota adjustment, hook adjustment and appropriate tilt.

  Among them, quota adjustment refers to the unified increase of the same amount of pensions for all types of retirees in the same area, reflecting social equity; Hook adjustment means that the increased pension is linked to the individual payment period and pension level, which embodies the incentive mechanism of "paying more and getting more" and "paying more for a long time", so that people who pay more and pay more for a long time can get more pensions; Appropriate tilt reflects key care, mainly for the elderly retirees, retirees in hard and remote areas and other groups to take care of.

  Take the pension adjustment scheme in Sichuan Province as an example. Li, a retiree in six kinds of hard and remote areas, is 71 years old and has a payment period of 35 years. In December 2020, the basic pension was 5,600 yuan, and the adjusted and increased basic pension was as follows:

  Quota adjustment: 42 yuan; Adjustment of payment period: 15 years ×0.7 yuan/year +20 years ×1.8 yuan/year =46.5 yuan; Adjustment of pension level: 5600 yuan ×1.3%=72.8 yuan; Old age tilt adjustment: 35 yuan; Tilt adjustment in hard and remote areas: 80 yuan; Total: 42+46.5+72.8+35+80=276.3 yuan.

  Basic pensions for urban and rural residents in these places have also increased.

  In addition to raising the basic pension for retirees, some provinces have also raised the basic pension standards for urban and rural residents this year.

  The Hubei Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security announced on the 28th that from January 1st, 2021, the basic pension standard of basic old-age insurance for urban and rural residents in Hubei Province will be raised from 108 yuan per person per month to 115 yuan per person per month, that is, the 7 yuan will be raised on the basis of the original standard.

  In addition, Shanghai will adjust the basic pension standard of urban and rural residents’ old-age insurance (including the minimum standard of basic pension determined by the central government) from 1100 yuan per person per month to 1200 yuan per person per month. This standard is the highest in the country.

  Beijing has also raised the basic old-age pension for urban and rural residents. From January 1, 2021, new people will receive basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents. The basic pension standard is 850 yuan per person per month. (End)