China holiday railway trips exceed pre-pandemic numbers

A staffer at Hongqiao Railway Station provides guidance to passengers [SHINE]
A staffer at Hongqiao Railway Station provides guidance to passengers [SHINE]
SHINE | 16-Jun-2021 | By Hu Min

The number of railway trips recorded in the Yangtze River Delta region during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday has surpassed the number of trips prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the China Railway Shanghai Group announced today, the last day of the three-day holiday. Between Friday – when the holiday travel rush began – and Sunday, an average of more than 2.5 million daily railway trips were recorded in the region, more than the same period in 2019. Continue reading “China holiday railway trips exceed pre-pandemic numbers”

A view on Ningbo joining the one-trillion-yuan GDP club

A view on Ningbo joining the one-trillion-yuan GDP club [CGTN]
A view on Ningbo joining the one-trillion-yuan GDP club [CGTN]

CGTN | 14-Jun-2021

East China’s coastal city of Ningbo is one of the country’s key gates to converge in global economic activities. Despite turbulent external factors over the past decade – China-U.S. trade war, COVID-19 pandemic, financial crisis, the trade-dependent city has maintained the ascending trajectory of its economic growth. How did Ningbo make it? Continue reading “A view on Ningbo joining the one-trillion-yuan GDP club”