Great achievements have been made in various fields. China’s high-quality development has "broken the waves and moved forward"
CCTV News:On April 24th, the latest news of China Aerospace was released, and the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft was planned to be launched at 20: 59 on April 25th. For more than 60 years, from "two bombs and one satellite" to "Chang ‘e" to explore the moon, "Zhu Rong" to explore the fire and "Tiangong" to roam the stars … … China Aerospace always dreams of the stars and the sea, and will fly to a wider deep space this year.
China space accelerates exploration to new heights.
The launch window of Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft confirmed that astronauts appeared in groups.
On April 24th, the press conference of Shenzhou-18 manned mission was held in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It is planned to launch the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft at 20: 59 on April 25th, and three astronauts will make a collective appearance.
At the press conference, a spokesman for China’s manned spaceflight project introduced the relevant situation of this mission. At 11 noon, the flight crew of Shenzhou 18 met with Chinese and foreign journalists in Wentian Pavilion. The crew consisted of astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu. Commander Ye Guangfu has carried out the manned mission of Shenzhou XIII, and Li Cong and Li Guangsu are the third batch of astronauts in China, both of whom are flying for the first time.
Shenzhou 17, which is carrying out its mission in the space station, is in orbit to watch the press conference and press conference of Shenzhou 18 manned mission.
At present, the state of the space station assembly and all equipment are working normally, the product quality of the Shenzhou-18 rocket assembly is controlled, the ground system facilities and equipment are running stably, and all preparations are ready before launch.
China’s manned moon landing is being developed and built as planned.
April 24 is the ninth "China Aerospace Day" with the theme of "Looking at the vast expanse of the sky and working together with the stars".
Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, said that at present, major flight products such as the Long March 10 carrier rocket, the Dreamboat manned spacecraft, the lunar lander, and the moon landing suit have all completed the program development work, and the production of prototype products and various tests are being carried out in an all-round way. The construction of Wenchang manned lunar exploration launch site has been fully implemented.
In 2024, China Aerospace is expected to launch about 100 missions, and the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, Chang ‘e-6 mission, Shenzhou-18 manned mission and Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft replenishment mission will be advanced as scheduled. Not only that, with the "commercial aerospace" being written into the government work report for the first time, new quality productivity in the aerospace field is also gestating.
In January this year, Kuaizhou Rocket created the fastest networking record of domestic commercial satellite constellations. This year, the company will also complete eight space launch missions.
Accord to that national space administration, at present, there are nine types of commercial launch vehicle that can provide launching services, and a number of remote sen constellations of 100 orders of magnitude initiated by commercial enterprises are under steady construction. With the active arrangement of local governments and enterprises, it is estimated that the scale of China’s commercial space market is expected to exceed 2.3 trillion yuan this year.
China’s economy will make greater contributions to the world economy.
After the National Bureau of Statistics released the economic data for the first quarter of this year, many international financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank raised their economic growth forecasts for China this year. In response, Wang Wenbin, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular press conference held on April 24th that looking ahead, the trend of China’s economic recovery for the better and the longer term will not change, and it will make greater contributions to the world economy.
Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that in the first quarter of this year, China’s economy got off to a good start, the "troika" indicators of consumption, investment and export were running well, and the four macro indicators of growth, employment, inflation and balance of payments remained generally stable, releasing a "strong sense of spring" of sustained recovery. In the first quarter, China’s GDP increased by 5.3% year-on-year, of which domestic demand contributed 85.5% to economic growth, which is the main force to promote economic growth. The UNCTAD report predicts that China’s economy will achieve the growth target of around 5% this year. The 2024 global foreign direct investment confidence index released by American management consulting service company Kearney shows that China’s ranking jumped from the seventh place last year to the third place. According to a Bloomberg report, China will rank first in the world in the proportion of new economic activities in the next five years. Looking into the future, the trend of China’s economic recovery to be good and long-term good will not change. It is believed that with the continuous promotion of high-quality development and high-level opening up, China’s economy will accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading on the basis of steady progress and make greater contributions to the world economy.
China set up a national overseas intellectual property dispute response guidance center to save 6.89 billion yuan for enterprises.
The State Council Press Office held a press conference on April 24th. China National Intellectual Property Administration introduced that the National Guidance Center for Dealing with Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes has been set up with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and 43 local sub-centers have been set up in 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and work guidance stations have been set up in countries and regions with intensive trade exchanges to provide professional and efficient overseas rights protection guidance services for enterprises. In 2023, 1,706 enterprises were instructed, which saved 6.89 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises and helped enterprises reduce the cost of rights protection by 390 million yuan.
110 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds support flood control and disaster relief in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Emergency Management Department urgently pre-allocated 110 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds to support flood control and disaster relief work in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, focusing on emergency treatment such as search and rescue, relocation and resettlement of affected people, danger elimination, investigation and emergency rectification of hidden dangers of secondary disasters, and repair of damaged houses.
The cultural tourism market continues to heat up, and "fancy" in various places stimulates consumption enthusiasm.
There is still a week before the May Day holiday. These days, air ticket booking has reached a peak, outbound travel has also ushered in a substantial increase, and the cultural tourism market has continued to heat up.
In the big data system of this online booking platform, the reporter found that since mid-April, the air ticket booking curve has obviously increased, and the air ticket booking volume of popular cities has increased day by day, with a one-day increase of 40%. Fifteen days before the holiday, the number of air ticket bookings has exceeded the same period in 2023. The reporter found on a number of online booking platforms that during this year’s "May 1" holiday, medium and long-distance travel was hot, with orders accounting for 56%. The rapid growth of long-distance travel has driven the volume and price of the holiday civil aviation passenger transport market to rise.
Shang Kejia, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said: "The main reason for the popularity of the civil aviation passenger transport market is the continuous release of consumer demand, and transportation production has returned to natural growth, and it has entered the stage of improving quality and increasing efficiency."
The online booking platform data also shows that at present, the number of inbound and outbound airline tickets booked during the May 1 holiday exceeds 690,000, an increase of about 17% over a week ago. Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore rank among the top five popular outbound destinations, and the number of outbound travel bookings has nearly tripled year-on-year.
"May Day" is approaching, and Air China will open new Beijing one after another from April 28th — Riyadh, Beijing — Dhaka route, return to Beijing — Madrid — Sao Paulo, Beijing — Madrid — Havana route. By then, the domestic airline route network will cover six continents again.
At the same time, the launching ceremony of the national cultural and tourism consumption promotion activities in 2024 and the home event of the National May Day Cultural and Tourism Consumption Week were also held in Zhuhai on April 23rd. With the theme of "Cultural tourism benefiting the people and sharing a better life", all localities will launch special cultural tourism activities, new consumption scenarios and measures to benefit the people around traditional festivals, legal holidays and summer holidays to stimulate the enthusiasm of cultural tourism consumption.
With the coming of the May 1 holiday, from May 1, Hainan launched the "air ticket is the ticket" travel coupon distribution activity, and tourists outside Hainan Island can exchange tickets for 21 scenic spots in Hainan Island with their tickets for the corresponding time period. During the holidays, Hainan Province will hold more than 150 cultural and artistic, sports events and tourism festivals to welcome tourists from all over the world.
In 2023, the level of residents’ health literacy will increase to 29.70%.
On April 24th, the National Health and Wellness Commission released the health literacy monitoring of China residents in 2023. In 2023, the health literacy level of Chinese residents reached 29.70%, 1.92 percentage points higher than that in 2022, and continued to show a steady improvement trend. 29.70% means that among every 100 people aged 15-69, nearly 30 people have basic health literacy, know basic health knowledge and concepts, master healthy lifestyle and behavior content, and have basic health skills.
The monitoring results show that in 2023, the health literacy level of urban residents in China was 33.25%, and that of rural residents was 26.23%, increasing by 1.31 and 2.45 percentage points respectively compared with 2022. The level of basic knowledge and concept literacy of urban and rural residents is 42.00%, the level of healthy lifestyle and behavior literacy is 32.21%, and the level of basic skills literacy is 26.76%, which is 0.74, 1.58 and 0.76 percentage points higher than that in 2022 respectively. The literacy level of six kinds of health problems from high to low is: safety and first aid literacy 59.33%, scientific health concept literacy 54.71%, health information literacy 41.05%, chronic disease prevention literacy 30.43%, basic medical literacy 28.84% and infectious disease prevention literacy 28.02%.
Carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP are expected to drop by 3.9% this year.
On April 23rd, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the main target of ecological environment protection in 2024. This year, the average concentration of PM2.5, the ratio of days with excellent air quality, the ratio of surface water quality sections I to III and other eco-environmental quality indicators in cities at prefecture level and above will be better than the schedule requirements of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP will be reduced by about 3.9%, and the total emissions of nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen will continue to decrease.