Tibet funds nearly 3.8b yuan for students in 2019

17:58, May 07, 2020

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  Nearly 40% of students in China back to school

  A teacher takes the temperature of a student at Beijing Yuying Middle School on May 11, 2020. (Photo: China Daily)More than 100 million students, nearly 40 percent of the total, have returned to school in China, according to the Ministry of Education.

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  Student seeks to alter public view of blind people in Tibet

  Tsering Choekyi, a senior student at Tsinghua University, is making a documentary about Tibetan blind masseur Tsering Dhondup and his colleagues. (Photos: China Daily)In the documentary Land of Silence and Darkness, German director Werner Herzog portrays the life of disabled people by focusing on a deaf and blind woman. His care for the woman and their communication deeply touched Tsering Choekyi, a 23-year-old girl from Shannan city, Southwest Chinas Tibet autonomous region.When the journalism major from Tsinghua University saw a public service advertisement on Tibet Satellite TV, she was attracted by the story of Tsering Dhondup, a blind masseur who dreams of organizing a band with six of his peers and decided to film a documentary about Tsering Dhondup and his colleagues as her graduation project."I want to make this documentary to improve the visual representation of the disabled in Tibet and enable them to reveal to the general public a side of their lives rarely seen. On the other hand, I also hope it will encourage more people to pay attention to the disabled, especially when it comes to their employment."She set about searching for information online about Tsering Dhondup before going directly to his massage shop in Lhasa, to request an opportunity to record their daily life."I was very tense and anxious before I met them, since I was worried they would be very sensitive, but to my surprise, they immediately agreed and said they felt happy to help me. I was really moved," Tsering Choekyi tells China Daily.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, she postponed filming until March 5, but has visited the massage shop nearly every day since. So far, under the simple working title of Tsering Dhondup, she has half of the footage she wants "in the can", and plans to edit the documentary in May."I follow a relatively fixed schedule. They live on the third floor and work on the second in a house on Bakuo Street in Lhasa. I usually go t...

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  Beijing, Shanghai see 1t yuan in 2019 consumer goods sales

  People go shopping at a creative market in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on May 4, 2020, during the five-day Labor Day Holiday. (Photo: Sipa)The total retail sales of consumer goods in Shanghai and Beijing both exceeded 1 trillion yuan in 2019, registering 1.35 trillion and 1.23 trillion, respectively, followed by Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu, according to news portal Yicai.com.Shanghai witnessed the strongest consumption capacity across the country in 2019, up 6.5 percent from the previous year. The online retail sales volume reached 189.65 billion yuan, increasing 15.8 percent year-on-year, which accounted for 14.1 percent of the total.Beijing took the second spot with total retail sales of consumer goods at 1.23 trillion yuan, rising 4.4 percent from a year earlier. The retail sales of enterprises above the designated size went up 23.6 percent year-on-year to 336.63 billion yuan, accounting for 27.4 percent of total consumption volume.Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province in southeastern China, consumed 997.56 billion yuan in retail sales last year, very close to surpassing 1 trillion.With a population of 300 billion and a total area of 82,400 square kilometers, the southwestern city of Chongqing saw total retail sales of consumer goods at 867 billion yuan. Chengdu and Wuhan ranked fifth and sixth, respectively, with retail sales both surpassing 740 billion yuan in 2019.Although Shenzhens GDP ranked third around the country, its retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 658.29 billion yuan, landing in seventh place.Analysis from Yicai.com concluded that Shenzhens consumer attraction is partly divided by Hong Kong, the world-renowned shopping center. Peng Peng, the executive chairman of the Guangdong Society of Economic Reform, said people in Guangdong province prefer to go shopping in either Hong Kong or Guangzhou, while Shenzhen has less shopping attraction than other cities.On the other hand, he noted Shenzhen residents poured the maj...