Podcast: Words of President Xi (13)

11:25, December 12, 2020

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  Meeting Xi presided over calls for efforts to consolidate achievements of poverty alleviation

  Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that China has accomplished its poverty alleviation target of the new era as scheduled and achieved a significant victory that impresses the world.He made the remarks while presiding over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.The meeting said China still faces acute problems of unbalanced and inadequate development. It called for efforts to:

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  France follows own road in cooperating with China

  Photo: VCG Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron reached a number of important consensuses on the next stages of China-France cooperation during a phone conversation on Wednesday evening. This shows that both China and Europe have a strong will to expand coop

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  Moments of the week (12/7-12/13)

  A demonstrator holds an umbrella and a sign reading For your safety you will have no more freedoms during a protest against the Global Security Bill'', that rights groups say would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer's face and infringe journalists' freedom in the country, in Paris on Monday. (Photo: Xinhua)A tourist feeds a red-beaked gull by mouth at the Haigeng Dam in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Thursday. (Photo: China News Service)The picture shows an examiner at a local high school confirming the identity of candidates in Busan, South Korea, on Monday. The Korean college entrance examination, originally scheduled for mid-November, was held after a delay of nearly a month with a record-low 493,400 candidates appearing this year, according to the South Korean Ministry of Education. (Photo: CGTN)A graphic simulation shows the orbit of the orbiter and returner combination of China's Chang'e-5 probe after its separation from the ascender. (Photo: CNSA)A sportsman on a bicycle performs during the Proryv (Breakthrough) extreme sports festival in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. (Photo: Xinhua)The new height of Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, is 8,848.86 meters, China and Nepal jointly announced on Tuesday. (Photo: Xinhua)A cat wearing costumes are seen at a costume workshop in Bogor of West Java province, Indonesia, on Monday. (Photo: Xinhua)A vendor sells Christmas lanterns at a market in Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday. (Photo: Xinhua)Aerial photo taken on Friday shows snow sculptors processing an artwork in the compound of the 33rd Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Exposition in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo: Xinhua)Aerial photo taken on Wednesday shows the winter scenery of metasequoia at Baidishi Village in Qidong County of Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province. (Photo: Xinhua)