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Video Player Close -- To prevent the sporadic resurgence of COVID-19, China encouraged people to stay put over the holiday this year, which lasted from Feb. 11 to 17. Thanks to the stay-put measure, many enterprises were able to continue holiday production or resume production quickly after the holiday break. -- Apart from boisterous production activities, construction of new projects continued or started during the holiday across the country, injecting new impetus to China's economy. By Xinhua Writers Liu Fangqiang, Li Hua, Wang Hao HEFEI/XI'AN/TAIYUAN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Moving back and forth on an automobile assembly line, Zhang Tianshun was conducting function tests for vehicles before they roll off the production line. "My job is to check the functionality of seven parts of the car, including four windows, front and rear wipers and the sunroof. It takes two minutes to test a car for my part, and I need to handle about 200 cars per day. It's even busier than … [Read more...] about China sees acceleration in work resumption after Spring Festival holiday

Asserting that the Biden administration is placing democracy and human rights at the centre of its foreign policy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Feb. 24 that the U.S. will seek election to the Human Rights Council for the 2022-24 term, almost three years after it quit the U.N.’s top rights body. Former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in June 2018, describing it as a “hypocritical and self-serving organisation” that displayed “unending hostility towards Israel”. The Geneva-based Human Rights Council is a 47-member inter-governmental body within the U.N. system tasked with upholding human rights. On Feb. 24, the top American diplomat, in his virtual address to the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council said he sought the support of all U.N. member states America’s bid to return to a seat in the inter-governmental body. “The United States is placing democracy and human rights at the center of our foreign … [Read more...] about U.S. to seek election to Human Rights Council for 2022-24 term: Antony Blinken

IMAGE: Rishabh Pant scored 1,000 runs in just 27 Test innings. Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images Rishabh Pant on Tuesday surpassed the iconic Mahendra Singh Dhoni to become the fastest Indian wicket-keeper-batsman to reach the 1,000-run mark in Test cricket during the final Test against Australia at the Gabba on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Pant achieved the feat in only 27 innings, scoring at an average of 40.04. Dhoni had taken 32 innings to reach the milestone. Congratulate Team India Coming in to bat in India's second innings of the 4th Test, Pant needed only one run to achieve the record and he got to it by pulling Pat Cummins to get off the mark with a double. Besides Pant and Dhoni, five other Indian stumpers -- Farokh Engineer (36 innings), Wriddhiman Saha (37 innings), Nayan Mongia (39 innings), Syed Kirmani (45 innings) and Kiran More (50 innings) have crossed the 1,000-run milestone in Test cricket. South Africa's Quinton de Kock holds … [Read more...] about Gabba hero Pant surpasses Dhoni