China has over-fulfilled three of the 2020 global biodiversity targets (the Aichi targets) and made progress on 13 targets, none of which have been fully met globally. Our solutions are in nature.

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China's deep-sea manned submersible "Fendouzhe," has finished the first leg of its 21st voyage to the Western Pacific. It has completed 28 dives, seven of which exceeded a depth of 10,000 meters. #GLOBALink

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MiaoVlogs: Meet China's beloved "Panda Papa" Prof. Hu Jinchu!

The 92-year-old retiree is a leading global expert on the giant panda. Hu headed a team to investigate the rare species discovered in southwest China's Sichuan Province over 40 years ago.

What was that experience like? How did the group carry out its mission? And what is his one regret? Xinhua's Miao Xiaojuan and British researcher Alice Hughes had a chat with him at his home.

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Lavish costumes, elaborate makeup, and dynamic acrobatics...Chinese operas are famous for their visual elements. But the quintessential focus of one of China's most famous art forms is far beyond that. Xinhua's Dale Fox discovers why Chinese operas have kept their vitality throughout history. #GLOBALink

(Courtesy: Beijing's Fengtai Media Convergence Center, Jingju Theater Company of Beijing)

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The military pact among the United States, Britain and Australia, known as AUKUS, poses a risk of nuclear material and technology proliferation, and threatens peace, stability and security in the Asia-Pacific, a Thai expert has said.

"I'm quite sure that the AUKUS poses a risk of proliferation of nuclear material and technology," Surasit Thanadtang, director of the Thai-Chinese Strategic Research Center under the National Research Council of Thailand, told Xinhua in an interview.

The pact will let Australia build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, Surasit said, adding that with the technology provided by the United States, it would go further to weapon technology that might have more impacts on regional peace, stability and security.

"The AUKUS pact is probably the most significant security arrangement among the three nations since WWII, and it focuses on military capability," he said.

Surasit noted that the United States is sharing the submarine technology for the first time in 50 years, and this time it might be more challenging to the region because of the highly enriched uranium material.

"It's already the weapon-grade nuclear. It's not a nuclear for peaceful development," the expert said.

To more effectively safeguard regional peace, stability and development, Surasit said countries should uphold promoting and seeking security cooperation based on a new concept that emphasizes joint and comprehensive cooperation in ensuring sustainable security and creating a security governance framework with regional characteristics.

Countries in the region should jointly build a road of peace, while the key factors of success would include an environment of relative stability and concerted efforts to build development networks, both hard skills and soft skills for youth society, with contribution to regional peace and stability, he said.

He noted that instead of nuclear-powered submarines, what the region needs most is marine research and development in humanitarian, seaside disaster relief, countering terrorism and transnational crime as well as green development of the sea.

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About 20,000 Ethiopians have received healthcare service given by the 22nd batch of the Chinese medical team over the last nine months at Tirunesh Beijing Hospital on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. #GLOBALink

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At crossroads in life, how would you make a decision?

In a country with 1.4 billion people, difficulties and challenges abound.

How could rife corruption be rooted out?

How could absolute poverty be eradicated?

How could a damaged eco-system be restored?

How could a pandemic be put under control?

And, who can make the final decision?

Xinhua publishes documentary "Xi Jinping as crisis manager," unveiling stories behind each and every difficult decision made at crucial moments faced by the Chinese nation.

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Shanghai, China's economic hub, launched a freight train service to Hamburg, Germany on Tuesday, marking the first cross-border railway service between Shanghai and Europe.

The "Shanghai Express" is loaded with 50 containers with cargoes such as apparels, auto parts, solar panels, tableware, furniture, daily necessities, machine parts and lamps.

It will leave China via the Alataw Pass in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and arrive in Hamburg about two weeks later.

According to Shanghai Customs, trains along this route will run regularly every week, while new routes will be opened, providing new logistics options for enterprises at home and abroad.

According to China Railway, Europe-China freight trains have made a total of 10,030 trips in the first 8 months of the year, up by 32 percent.

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China's independently developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft performed a flight at the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China 2021, which opened Tuesday in the southern port city of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province.

The aircraft displayed its capabilities of aerial water-dropping by opening the hatch door underneath and dropping nine tonnes of water during the flight.

Code-named Kunlong, the AG600 is a key piece of aeronautical equipment in China's emergency rescue system.

It completed its maiden flight from land in 2017, its first takeoff from a water reservoir in 2018, and its first sea takeoff in 2020.

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The track-laying work for the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway, the final section of the Taklimakan Desert railway loop line, was completed on Monday morning in Minfeng County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Construction on the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway started in December 2018. As a key national railway project extending over 825 km, it links up Hotan City in Hotan Prefecture with Ruoqiang County in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture.

When the railway goes into operation, it will fully encircle the Taklimakan Desert when connected with the existing Golmud-Korla Railway, the Kashgar-Hotan Railway and a number of other southern Xinjiang railways.

"This railway line runs through the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. Sandstorms pose a serious threat to railway construction and operation as tracks can be buried," said Yang Baorong, chief designer of the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway.

Wang Jinzhong, chairman of Xinjiang Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway Co., Ltd., said anti-desertification programs and railway construction were carried out simultaneously, which is unprecedented in China. A total of 50 million square meters of grass grids were laid and 13 million seedlings were planted. Where the threat of sandstorms is greatest, viaducts were built to allow for safe passage.

As an important regional railway included in the national medium- and long-term railway network plan, the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway is expected to open in June 2022.

At that time, five counties in southern Xinjiang and certain towns of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps will be connected to the provincial rail network, which is of great significance to promoting the economic and social development of southern Xinjiang.

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