ZHENGZHOU, April 12 (Xinhua) -- China's leading bus maker Yutong has implemented the "5G-enabled intelligent mobility solution" in central China's Zhengzhou, the city where Yutong has its headquarters.

To the extent of demonstrating the system, Yutong showcases an intelligent bus terminal where buses park, charge, move and depart with no human operation.

The intelligent mobility solution is built on new mobility infrastructures, such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

In addition to intelligent vehicles, there are smart roads.

Currently, there are 34 space capsule-shaped bus stops along the intelligent driving route of autopilot bus line 1 in Zhengzhou, which was put into trial operation in June 2020.

The autopilot bus carries a combination of technologies including autopilot driving, internet of vehicles, platform supervision, safety control and autonomous door operating and parking systems.

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China's currency Renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, has seen wider acceptance in international usage as the country's resilient economic growth bolstered global demands and opening-up measures facilitated foreign investment.

The business volume of cross-border payments of the Chinese currency renminbi (RMB) grew rapidly in 2021, a report from the People's Bank of China showed.

Last year, over 3.34 million transactions were handled through China's RMB cross-border payment system, surging 51.55 percent year on year, according to the central bank.

The total value of these transactions stood at 79.60 trillion yuan (about 12.53 trillion U.S. dollars), jumping 75.83 percent from a year earlier.

"If China can develop the confidence to all people in the world and especially the main trading partners of China," its currency also could "help the stability of the currency in the developing countries, especially the main trading partners of China in the world," said Dendi Ramdani, an economist of Bank Mandiri in Indonesia.

The Chinese currency formally became the fifth currency in the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket on Oct. 1, 2016, joining the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen, and the British pound.

The SDR, an international reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries' official reserves, can be exchanged among governments for freely usable currencies in times of need.

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SHANGHAI, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A short video of an American drummer putting on a drum show on balcony in a community under temporary closed-off management in Shanghai has gone viral on social media. Find out why the player decided to stage the show.

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Foreign companies in China's economic hub Shanghai said they operated normally and gave full support to the city's closed-off management amid the latest COVID-19 resurgence.

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Moscow said the draft agreement submitted by Ukraine demonstrated a shift in Kiev's negotiating positions.

NATO members have agreed to ramp up the supply of weapons to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia.

Xinhua reporters in Moscow and Brussels bring you the latest.

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Smart technologies and products are aiding China's megacity of Shanghai to fight against the recent COVID-19 resurgence.

The city has been placed under temporary closed-off management after surging COVID-19 infections were logged in recent days.

The first batch of 28 intelligent robots are busy disinfecting the environment inside the Shanghai New International Expo Center in the Pudong New Area, the city's largest temporary quarantine site.

In Anting New Town of Jiading District, unmanned vehicles are used to deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to local communities. The load capacity of each vehicle is equivalent to three to four deliverymen.

Police in Huangpu District are employing drones equipped with a broadcasting system to patrol key areas and to publicize latest news and anti-pandemic prevention and control measures to the local communities.

Firefighters in Xuhui District have also launched drones to deliver medicine to nearby residents.

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Shanghai's temporary hospital in the Shanghai New International Expo Center opened the city's first parent-child quarantine area on Monday evening.

Medics from Shanghai Children's Medical Center have been sent here to better take care of children patients.

The makeshift hospital with 15,000 beds has over 2,200 medical staffers from 11 medical teams.

Shanghai is sparing no effort to contain its latest resurgence of COVID-19.

A total of 62 temporary quarantine sites have been designated in hotels, stadiums, exhibition centers and training centers.

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Paris/London/Athens, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Europe has suffered from surging inflation and fuel shortage since the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, experts have said.

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URUMQI, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Senbat Beybit, a teacher in a kindergarten in Egiztobe of Burqin County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, lives a happy life as she enjoys being with lovely children in the preschool.

The children love Senbat very much, as she is always gentle and patient to them.

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Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam said on Monday that she would not run in the upcoming election of the HKSAR's sixth-term chief executive.

The nomination period for the once-in-five-year chief executive election of the HKSAR began on Sunday and will run through April 16. The election will be held on May 8.

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