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NATION On Office June issued 7, the State a white Council paper Information on China's battle against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Titled Fighting COVID-19: China in Action, the white paper gives a detailed, chronological account of the government and the people's efforts to contain the epidemic. "China's fight against the COVID-19 epidemic is a shared memory of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, and will always be remembered by the Chinese people", said Xu Lin, director of the State Council Information Office, at a press conference during which the white paper was released. [Extracted from the article]

President Xi Jinping made an important contribution to the world by sharing his knowledge and ideas through three books collecting his thoughts on the governance of China. Poverty elimination, high-quality development and a community with a shared future for humanity are among the main themes in Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume III. According to the white paper China and the World in the New Era published in September 2019 by the State Council Information Office, "China's rural population living under the current poverty line decreased from 770 million in 1978 to 16.6 million in 2018, and China's rural poverty incidence dropped from 97.5 percent to 1.7 percent, down by 95.8 percentage points. [Extracted from the article]

Tax Cuts The State Taxation Administration (STA), China's top tax watchdog, said on March 31 that tax and fee cuts topped 402.7 billion yuan ($56.8 billion) in the first two months of this year. NEV Boom There will be a huge demand for new-energy vehicle (NEV) charging poles in China as the country is expected to have more NEVs on the road in the next five years, China Securities Journal reported. By January, China had built 531,000 public charging poles and 712,000 private ones, with one charger per 3.5 NEVs on average, the paper said, citing data from the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance. [Extracted from the article]

PACIFIC DIALOGUE "Do a Google news search for 'vaccine diplomacy": All the top results are about China. Vaccine diplomacy was originally coined by Dr. Peter Hotez, an American vaccine scientist, in his 2014 paper Vaccine Diplomacy: Historical Perspectives and Future Direc-tions. He described vaccine diplomacy as referring to "almost any aspect of global health diplomacy that relies on the use or delivery of vaccines and encompasses the important work of the GAVI Alliance.". [Extracted from the article]