(ChineseToday)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-RURAL REVITALIZATION-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(ChineseToday)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-RURAL REVITALIZATION-NPC DEPUTY (CN)

(240222) -- HANGZHOU, Feb. 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Liu Jianming (R) learns about orchid growth in Tangdi Village of Keqiao District in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 19, 2024. Liu Jianming, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the Party chief of Tangdi, a hilly village in east China's Zhejiang Province. He led locals to ride the wave of agritourism and made Tangdi a popular tourist destination for market-oriented gardening. In the past year, Liu, along with the villagers, continued to promote integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, having completed a batch of construction projects including cultural landscapes, country roads, and the main body of a tourist service center. In June 2003, Zhejiang launched the Green Rural Revival Program. With the concept of green and sustainable development at its core, the program has greatly improved local living conditions. It has also strengthened rural governance and explored a development path that balances economic growt

BOJ maintains ultra-loose policy, Fukui upbeat on economic growt

BOJ maintains ultra-loose policy, Fukui upbeat on economic growt

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui speaks at a press conference on Sept. 8 after the bank's nine-member policy-setting panel decided to maintain its ultra-loose monetary policy. Fukui showed confidence about economic growth in Japan and abroad despite rising crude oil prices. (Kyodo)

Miyazawa axes Summers' plea for speedy deliverance of 3 pc growt

Miyazawa axes Summers' plea for speedy deliverance of 3 pc growt

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (R) says Japan rejected a suggestion by U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to set a sharply higher economic growth target for fiscal 2000 than the officially avowed real 1 percent growth. Miyazawa attends a news conference along with Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami (L) after a meeting of financial chiefs from the Group of Seven (G-7) economic powers, held in downtown Tokyo on Jan. 22. Both co-chaired the G-7 meeting.