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AI offers lifeline to developing economies in an era of weak growth

Artificial intelligence (AI), announced in Washington on August 4, 2026, could allow developing countries to do in a decade what might otherwise take a century—provided that governments act swiftly to close the gaps in power, connectivity, skills, and institutional quality that threaten to leave them behind, according to the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence.

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Government Policy

The meeting, the largest and most significant event in Chinese politics and closely watched by the rest of the world, is to determine China's future policy direction, its leadership, and its national goals.

Environment

Major progress has been made in promoting the Beautiful China Initiative over the past decade thanks to combined efforts to improve the country's ecology and environment, a senior official said Friday.
 

China's Rural Vitalization

 

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Gannan video series 3
Gannan video series 2 -- Formerly impoverished village becomes tourism hotspot

Targeted Poverty Reduction

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[ Ecological Compensation ]
 

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China releases reports on budgets, national economic and social development plans
 

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Govt's 36 goals and achievements in 2018
 

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Poverty Relief Projects
 
 
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