CCTV News:On March 7, the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of Customs announced that China’s financial operation was generally stable in 2023, and foreign trade achieved a "good start" in the first two months of this year. On the same day, News Network also reported the "thriving" situation in China’s foreign exchange reserves, energy development, people’s livelihood security and other fields. Combined with the good news in the development of new energy vehicles and major projects, the quality of China’s economic development has been further improved.
【March towards the "new" The economic operation is steadily improving.】
At the end of February, the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves was $3,225.8 billion.
According to the latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, at the end of February, the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves was $3,225.8 billion, up $6.5 billion from the end of January, and the scale of China’s foreign exchange reserves rose steadily.
The overall financial operation is stable and powerful, which promotes the economic operation to be good.
On March 7th, the Ministry of Finance issued the Report on the Implementation of Fiscal Policy in China in 2023. The report shows that in 2023, China’s financial operation was generally stable, which played an active role in expanding domestic effective demand, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and strengthening the protection of people’s livelihood, effectively promoting the sound and high-quality development of China’s economic operation.
According to the report, China’s fiscal revenue will achieve a recovery growth in 2023; The fiscal expenditure remained necessary, and support for key areas such as tackling key scientific and technological problems, rural revitalization, and ecological and environmental protection was strengthened. The annual budget implementation was generally good. At the same time, the central government takes the lead in living a tight life, strictly controls general expenditures, and reduces administrative operating costs. In 2023, the budget for the "three public" funds at the central level decreased by 20% compared with 2019.
In terms of efforts to expand effective domestic demand, in 2023, the vehicle purchase tax reduction and exemption policy for new energy vehicles will be continued and optimized, and the annual sales of new energy vehicles will increase by 37.9%. Newly added support for 10 cities to implement the national comprehensive freight hub to supplement the chain and strengthen the chain. Newly supported 15 cities to carry out demonstration of sponge city construction. We will speed up the issuance and use of local government special bonds. A total of 3.7 trillion yuan of new special bonds were issued for project construction throughout the year, and more than 35,000 projects were supported, which led to the expansion of effective investment.
In terms of strengthening the protection of people’s livelihood, in 2023, we will continue to reduce unemployment insurance and industrial injury insurance rates, optimize and adjust the one-time employment subsidy policy, and promote the overall improvement of the employment situation. The average unemployment rate in urban surveys in the whole year decreased by 0.4 percentage points over the previous year. We will continue to implement the policy of interest-free national student loans and deferred repayment of principal, and greatly increase the upper limit of the national student loans for undergraduate and graduate students. We will raise the funds for basic public health services and the per capita financial subsidy standard for urban and rural residents’ basic medical insurance, steadily implement the national overall planning of basic old-age insurance for enterprise employees, and timely release 156.683 billion yuan of relief subsidies for people in need, so as to further secure social security.
In promoting rural revitalization in an all-round way, in 2023, a one-time subsidy of 10 billion yuan will be given to the actual grain farmers, and the scope of full cost insurance and planting income insurance for the three major grain crops will be expanded. The central government’s convergence will further increase the subsidy funds for rural revitalization, giving priority to the development of rich agricultural industries in the agricultural belt. We will implement a new round of policies to develop a new rural collective economy and further promote comprehensive rural reform.
The import and export scale of China’s goods trade reached a record high in the same period.
On March 7, the General Administration of Customs released data showing that in the first two months of this year, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade was 6.61 trillion yuan, up 8.7% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 3.75 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; Imports reached 2.86 trillion yuan, up 6.7%. The import and export scale of China’s goods trade reached a new high in the same period of history, and foreign trade achieved a good start.
According to the foreign trade data released by the General Administration of Customs, in the first two months of this year, China’s exports grew rapidly and its competitive advantage was consolidated. The export of superior products such as automobiles, household appliances and ships increased by 15.8%, 24.3% and 180.6% respectively.
["Flowing China" shows great vitality]
During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the charging capacity of new energy vehicles increased by nearly 70% year-on-year
The reporter learned from the smart car networking platform of the State Grid that during the period of Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, the national expressway charging capacity of new energy vehicles reached 134 million kWh, a year-on-year increase of 69.35%. Geographically, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other provinces rank in the forefront of expressway charging; From the perspective of expressways, Shenhai, Beijing-Shanghai, Changshen, Daguang and Shanghai-Chengdu expressways are the busiest.
China-Europe Train (Xi ‘an) Cross-border Public-Rail Intermodal Train has been normalized.
March 7, China-Europe train (Hanoi, Vietnam — China Xi ‘an — Budapest, Hungary) Cross-border public rail combined transport train starts from Xi ‘an International Port Station, which marks the normalization of the cross-border public rail combined transport train of China-Europe train (Xi ‘an), and it is planned to run once a week in the future.
[Major engineering construction is changing with each passing day]
The first unit runner of Yangqu Hydropower Station in Qinghai Province was hoisted.
The reporter learned from the State Power Investment Corporation that the first unit runner of Yangqu Hydropower Station in Qinghai Province was successfully hoisted a few days ago, marking that the unit has fully entered the final assembly stage of the turbine. Yangqu Hydropower Station is an important supporting peak-shaving power supply for the first 800 kV "Qinghai-Henan DC" UHV transmission channel in China, which will provide strong support for building a clean energy base in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
[Small incision, great livelihood]
In 2023, there were more than 1.6 billion "cross-provincial general offices" for government services of people’s social organizations nationwide.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that the national people’s social government service has realized the whole process of high-frequency affairs in the fields of employment and entrepreneurship, social security, talent and personnel, and in 2023, the number of "inter-provincial general affairs" services exceeded 1.6 billion.
"Birds flock together to protect wetland ecology"
Manas Wetland is about to usher in a small peak of migratory birds in spring.
Manas Wetland in Xinjiang is a habitat and wintering place for migratory birds. At this time of the year, migratory birds who have wintered in winter have not left, and migratory birds passing by here also regard it as a "supply station". As the weather gets warmer these days, the swans wintering in the core area of the wetland are in groups of three or five, swimming leisurely and comfortably in the lake that has not completely melted, flapping their wings in the water and bathing in the sunshine, which is particularly harmonious and beautiful against the golden ten thousand mu of reeds.
Recently, the wetland has welcomed thousands of migrating geese, wild ducks and other migratory birds to roost in the shallow area of the wetland to feed and replenish energy. It is understood that in the following month, Manas National Wetland Park in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang will also usher in a small peak of migratory birds in spring.
In the place where birds gather in clear water, plum blossoms are on the top in spring.
In Tianhan Wetland Park in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, thousands of "rare" red-billed gulls from afar hover over the water, bringing vitality and agility to the Han River in early spring. In half a month, they will fly back to Siberia after wintering. According to observation, there are 89 species of birds inhabiting and breeding here. On the shore, ten thousand plum blossoms have smelled the breath of spring and quietly bloomed in the branches. Taking advantage of the fine weather, the citizens strolled in the garden, exercised, swam in the sea of flowers and enjoyed the spring.
[The land of China shows colorful spring pictures]
Enshi, Hubei Province: The peaks in the misty place of rain and clouds are covered with green and majestic.
After a spring rain, a magnificent sea of clouds appeared in Enshi Grand Canyon, Hubei Province. Surrounded by the peaks of Daise, the sea of clouds is magnificent and magnificent, which constitutes a painting of "clouds take mountains as the body and mountains take clouds as the clothes". Enshi Grand Canyon is about 1700 meters above sea level, which integrates geological landscapes such as sinkholes, ground fissures, cliffs, rock pillars and caves. Clouds linger, and the karst stone pillars stand proudly, majestic and steep. When the wind blows and the clouds open, the rivers and villages in the distance all show their faces, as if opening a landscape and pastoral picture.
Yingjiang, Yunnan: Rhododendron is in full bloom and singing Haruka in the deep mountains.
Located in Yingzui Mountain, Yingjiang County, Dehong County, Yunnan Province, more than 20,000 mu of Rhododendron macranthoides is in full bloom. In the mountains at an altitude of 2,200 meters, pieces of red azaleas are competing to bloom, and the red is strong and unrestrained. Rhododendron maying trees have different shapes, some are as straight as pine, some are as curved as dragon, and each tree is a work carefully carved by nature. In the deep mountains, there are few tourists, and the rhododendrons with their own warm colors decorate the spring.
