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(Xinhua)09:16, September 14, 2020

BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — The index for Chinas cloud usage surged 118 percent in 2019, which indicates that more traditional industries are moving their businesses online, according to a new report.

The report, released by Tencent Research Institute and Tencents cloud service qcloud, investigates the indices for the digitalization of Chinese cities and city clusters.

It found that industries such as automobiles, radio and television, and culture and tourism have seen their cloud usage index soar more than 400 percent as they start to move operations to the cloud.

The report also noted that cloud usage in the first half of 2020 was significantly higher than that of the same period last year, as digital applications such as remote working and online education stimulated the demand for cloud resources.

Over half of Chinese city clusters saw their digital industries grow more than 100 percent, with rapid digitalization in sectors such as education, health care and life services, the report showed.

(Xinhua)09:20, September 14, 2020

HAIKOU, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — South Chinas Hainan Province on Sunday started construction on a new batch of 151 projects, which are meant to advance the free trade port program.

With a total investment of 40.3 billion yuan (5.89 billion U.S. dollars), the projects include infrastructural facilities, first phase of an aircraft engine maintenance base in Haikou, the provincial capital, a high-end intelligent commodity manufacturing park in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, and a yacht dock project in the tropical resort of Sanya.

By the end of this year, an investment of 8 billion yuan will be made in these projects.

On June 1, China released a master plan for the Hainan Free Trade Port, aiming to build the whole of Hainan Island into a globally influential high-level free trade port by the middle of the century.

Previously, the province had launched 221 projects in two groups, with a total investment of 77 billion yuan this year for building the free trade port.

(Xinhua)09:21, September 14, 2020

BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese banking institutions have pooled their resources and increased financial support for the countrys battle against poverty amid COVID-19.

In the first eight months of this year, the Agricultural Development Bank of China, an agricultural policy bank, provided 351.1 billion yuan (about 51.3 billion U.S. dollars) in loans for poverty relief.

The figure was up by 71.75 percent, or 146.7 billion yuan, from the same period last year, according to the bank.

The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of Chinas biggest commercial lenders, has stepped up credit support for 832 poverty-stricken counties nationwide.

The total outstanding lending amount reached 1.24 trillion yuan by the end of August, up by 151 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, said the ABC.

(Xinhua)09:23, September 14, 2020

LANZHOU, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — Data from Chinas Ministry of Culture and Tourism shows that the number of tourists and total income of rural tourism in July and August have recovered to more than 90 percent of that of the same period in previous years.

Traveling to citys suburban areas has become the first choice for people to go out and have fun under the current situation, according to the ministry.

At a meeting on rural tourism held in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, Hu Heping, the minister of culture and tourism, said that the rural tourism revenue dropped 77.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, but the industry quickly recovered in the second quarter.

From January to August, a total of 1.207 billion trips to rural areas were made across the country, with a total revenue of 592.5 billion yuan (about 86.7 billion U.S. dollars), data shows.

About 94.5 percent of the business in rural tourism has returned to operation, hiring 10.61 million employees.

In 2019, the total number of trips to rural areas in China was 3.09 billion, accounting for more than half of the total domestic trips, and the total revenue of rural tourism was 1.81 trillion yuan.

(Peoples Daily Online)14:40, September 03, 2020

A Chinese deliveryman has earned the nickname father kangaroo” for taking his daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy, along with him during work.

(Photo/Chutian Metropolis Daily)

Yang Bi, a deliveryman from Wuhan, central Chinas Hubei province, has been working in a logistics company for five years. His second baby was born just a few weeks ago, and since then he has taken Tongdong, his elder daughter with cerebral palsy, on his rounds.

Dad will take you for a ride right away, Yang Bi said to his daughter, placing a small wooden stool on the pedal of the electric motorcycle. Tongtong raised her head and looked at her father, showing a sweet smile, as her father put a helmet on her.

Tongtong, now 4 years and 9 months old, suffers from cerebral palsy, and is unable to talk or walk. Now, she has to spend all day with her courier father.

Her intelligence is equivalent to that of a 6-month-old baby, Yang Bi explained. But in his eyes, she will always be his favorite.

(Photo/Chutian Metropolis Daily)

Five and a half months after Tongtong was born, she was found to be stunted and later diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy. The doctor said in the best case scenario, she would be able to take care of herself. In order to achieve this goal, Tongtong basically spent the last four years in the hospital.

From Monday to Friday, she would have to undergo rehabilitation treatment in the hospital during the day, Yang explained. As the cost of treatment is a great burden on Yangs family, for the past five years, Yang Bi has worn his work uniform every day and has hardly bought any new clothes; his 34-year-old wife, who used to be a beautician, now hardly wears any cosmetics.

Residents of the communities where Yang works are quite tolerant and sympathetic to the little girl on the electric motorcycle, and Yang has become known to them as father kangaroo.