What goals China's provincial-level governments set for 2024

STORY: What goals China's provincial-level governments set for 2024 SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: Feb. 1, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:54 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of China STORYLINE: China's provincial governments are eyeing new economic engines from AI to new energy vehicles, with a continuous focus on consumption, as indicated by their development plans for 2024. To date, all provincial-level regions have unveiled their growth targets for 2024 in government work reports delivered to people's congresses. Their 2024 GDP growth targets range from 4.5 percent to 8 percent, with the majority expecting to expand economy by over 5 percent. Most of the government work reports explicitly pledged to foster or expand "new productive forces" in their 2024 road maps. First put forward by the Chinese leadership in September 2023, this concept is believed to refer to sci-tech breakthroughs and innovation that drive strategic emerging industries and future industries. For example, Guan

Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor looks at a copy of Japan's first maps based on an actual coastal survey by Ino Tadataka, a geographical surveyor in the Edo period, on display at an exhibition that began July 3. The event at the Tokyo Big Sight showcases copies discovered in 2001 in the United States of 207 of Ino's maps, which were drawn some 200 years ago.

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Ireland - Lesley Roy - Maps (Emelie Eriksson/Lesley Roy/Lukas Hallgren/Philip Strand). - Eurovision song contest first semi-final, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 18, 2021. Photo by Sander Koning/Pool/Bruno Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Ireland - Lesley Roy - Maps (Emelie Eriksson/Lesley Roy/Lukas Hallgren/Philip Strand). - Eurovision song contest first semi-final, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 18, 2021. Photo by Sander Koning/Pool/Bruno Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Eurovision First Semi-Final - Rotterdam

Ireland - Lesley Roy - Maps (Emelie Eriksson/Lesley Roy/Lukas Hallgren/Philip Strand). - Eurovision song contest first semi-final, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 18, 2021. Photo by Sander Koning/Pool/Bruno Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

Exhibition of maps from Edo period starts in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor looks at a copy of Japan's first maps based on an actual coastal survey by Ino Tadataka, a geographical surveyor in the Edo period, on display at an exhibition that began July 3. The event at the Tokyo Big Sight showcases copies discovered in 2001 in the United States of 207 of Ino's maps, which were drawn some 200 years ago.

WW1 - OXO War Map

WW1 - OXO War Map

WW1 - OXO War Map, with portraits. (1 of 2)1914-1918

Tokyo landscape: Statue of pioneer cartographer stands at shrine

Tokyo landscape: Statue of pioneer cartographer stands at shrine

Photo taken on July 10, 2015, shows a bronze statue of pioneer cartographer Ino Tadataka along the approach to the Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Tokyo. He completed the first maps covering the whole of Japan based on a unified survey system in the early 19th century. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo