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Sunil Chhetri scored his 100th goal for Bengaluru FC (BFC) even as the club ended its Indian Super League (ISL) campaign on a disappointing note, crashing to a 3-2 defeat to Jamshedpur FC on Thursday. Following its eighth loss of the season, BFC finished seventh out of 11 teams with 22 points from 20 games. Chhetri scored his side’s second goal with a powerful header but couldn’t inspire a comeback from 0-3 down. The India skipper is the highest Indian goal-scorer in the history of ISL (40 goals for BFC and seven for Mumbai City FC). He is second in the overall list behind erstwhile FC Goa player Ferran Corominas (48). Also, on Thursday, Spanish midfielder Dimas Delgado led the team out for what appears to be his last ISL game for the club. Parth Jindal, BFC Director, tweeted a warm goodbye on Twitter but later deleted it. In the post-match interaction, interim coach Naushad Moosa said that Delgado “will be with the team” but was not sure if the Spaniard figured in new coach ... » Learn More about Indian Super League | BFC ends campaign on a disappointing note

President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at a gathering in Beijing to mark the country's accomplishments in poverty eradication on Thursday. Here are the highlights: 'Complete victory' * China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty ( Read more ) * 98.99 million Chinese in rural areas helped out of poverty from 2012 to 2020 * 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 impoverished villages have been removed from the poverty list * Some 25.68 million poor people in China from 7.9 million households have seen their dilapidated houses renovated since late 2012 * 9.6 million Chinese people have been relocated from impoverished areas since late 2012 * 28 ethnic minority groups with relatively small population have shaken off poverty collectively since late 2012 * 770 million rural residents have shaken off poverty since the beginning of reform and opening up over 40 years ago * All of China's impoverished rural population lifted out of poverty * ... » Learn More about Xi: Shaking off poverty ‘starting point’ of new life

Video Player Close by Xinhua writers Li Laifang, Lou Chen and Lyu Qiuping BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's most populous country, on Thursday declared that it has eliminated absolute poverty. The feat means China has solved absolute poverty, which has existed for thousands of years. The nation's people have now realized their long-cherished wish for ample food and clothing as well as comfortable housing. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty and accomplished the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, hailing the achievement as another miracle of mankind that will "go down in history." Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the announcement while addressing a grand gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's poverty alleviation accomplishments and award model poverty fighters. ... » Learn More about China Focus: China takes historic step by eliminating absolute poverty

Video Player Close HAIKOU, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) will hold its annual conference from April 18 to 21 in Boao, a coastal town in China's southernmost province of Hainan, the secretariat of the forum said on Thursday. This year's conference will focus on global governance and the Belt and Road Initiative, and aims to build further consensus on and inject further impetus into global development and governance in the post-pandemic era, according to the secretariat. The conference will be mainly held offline but parts will be held virtually in view of pandemic control and travel restrictions. The 2020 BFA annual conference was canceled due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. Founded in 2001, the BFA is a non-governmental and non-profit international organization committed to promoting regional economic integration and bringing Asian countries closer to their development goals. Enditem ... » Learn More about Boao Forum for Asia to hold annual conference in April

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China hopes that the United States can abandon the zero-sum game mindset, view China and China-U.S. relations in an objective and rational manner, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the comments at a press briefing when asked to respond to remarks made by U.S. President Joe Biden's nominee for CIA director William Burns regarding bilateral ties. Zhao said that, over the past few years, out of political purposes, the former U.S. administration made severe miscalculations and misinterpretations on China's goals and policies, and took many containment and oppressive measures that caused immeasurable damage to China-U.S. relations. "It went against the fundamental interests of the two peoples," Zhao said. China always believes that the bilateral relationship is not a zero-sum game, and both countries share broad common interests, said Zhao, adding that it is natural that there are ... » Learn More about China hopes U.S. will view bilateral relations in objective, rational manner

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- When Mao Zedong stood on Tian'anmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas. "Poverty is not socialism," "socialism means eliminating poverty," and "we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform," said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of China's reform and opening-up which began in 1978 when the country's incidence of rural poverty was 97.5 percent. Eradicating poverty is a war China must win, with the hardest and most arduous tasks lie in the country's rural areas and poverty-stricken regions. In 2020, all of China's nearly 100 million rural residents living below the current poverty line shook off poverty after eight years of arduous efforts. The historical feat of eradicating absolute ... » Learn More about China Focus: Is China’s poverty cure replicable?

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China has announced new targets for tackling air pollution over the next five years, an environmental official said Thursday. The country vowed to reduce the average PM2.5 density by 10 percent in 337 major cities between 2021 and 2025 compared with that of the previous five years, said Liu Bingjiang, an official with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, at a press conference. The 337 cities should also reach the new target of enjoying good-quality air for 87.5 percent of the period, Liu said. Liu said that China has achieved the goals of its three-year action plan released in 2018, with days with good air accounting for 87 percent of 2020 in 337 major cities. Cities that failed to meet the national standards for average PM2.5 density saw the indicator decline by 28.8 percent last year from the 2015 level. To further mitigate air pollution, the ministry will prioritize cutting vehicle emissions amid its ... » Learn More about China sets new air-quality targets for next five years

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