Moments of the week (03/21-03/27)

11:43, March 27, 2022

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  Beijing: Then and now

  China has gone through incredible changes in past decades and nowhere is that more true than in Beijing, the capital of China. (File photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's Daily)In 2018, Beijing for the first time reported GDP of over 3 trillion yuan ($446.6 billion). Authorities said the volume at comparable prices was nearly 700 times that of 1952. In 2021, the city's GDP exceeded 4 trillion yuan ($627.7 billion). (File photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's Daily)Check out these now and then photos to see Beijing's changes over the past seven decades. (File photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's Daily)File photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's DailyFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Li XuxiangFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: CFPFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's DailyFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: CFPFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's DailyFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: Lu Dong/People's DailyFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: CFPFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: CFPFile photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design; Present photo: CFP

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  Siwa Oasis in Matrouh Governorate, Egypt

  Siwa Oasis in Matrouh Governorate, Egypt

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  Hangzhou's Yongchang sends Shanghai 50,000 kg bamboo shoots daily to ensure food supply during COVID-19 resurgence

  Five trucks loaded with bamboo shoots left Yongchang, a town located in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, and arrived in Shanghai in support of the city’s fight against the COVID-19 resurgence and to stabilize its food supply on Monday. (Photos: Hangzhou Daily and Qianjiang Evening News; Compiled by Bai Yujie)Yongchang town is known as the “hometown of bamboo” and boasts of more than 533 hectares of edible bamboo species. The bamboo shoot is commonly used in Shanghai cuisine--for example, bamboo shoot soup.Local CPC members and volunteers load the truck with sacks of fresh harvested bamboo shoots in Yongchang. Yongchang pledges to supply Shanghai with 50,000 kg of bamboo shoots daily for more than 10 days. More than 100 local Party members and volunteers in Fuyang joined in the work of collecting and loading bamboo shoots on Sunday evening. Yongchang pledges to supply Shanghai with 50,000 kg of bamboo shoots daily for more than 10 days.

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  Police officer's day on epidemic frontline

  Zhang Jie, a policeman, is on duty in a vocational college, one of the checkpoints for epidemic prevention in Tongling, Anhui Province, on Saturday. (Photos: People's Daily)For civilians, 15 minutes might be a brief break surfing short video platforms on a mobile phone, whereas for Zhang, this is a rare and precious break from a long working day. Zhang graduated from a police academy and started work in January. His mission has been on the frontline of epidemic prevention since March 16. He is in charge of a vocational college under closed management due to the epidemic. There are about 4,000 teachers and students on campus. For those aged citizens, when they are keen to get out of the community, I receive an alert and get to the spot as soon as possible, Zhang says. Each day Zhang has to handle more than 10 such situations. He is learning to talk people down and tamp down the stress. Zhang also patrols the teaching building, canteen, dormitory and campus supermarket on foot twice a day: more than 30,000 steps. (Compiled by Dong Feng)