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Reuters Wang Wenbin: Regarding the issue you mentioned, I currently do not have any information that I can provide.
Shenzhen TV's Wang Wenbin: From August 16th to 20th, the 7th China South Asia Expo was held in Kunming, Yunnan. The South China Expo is a shining business card for China to exchange and cooperate with South Asian countries and even countries around the world. The theme of this expo is "Unity and Cooperation, Seeking Development Together", attracting representatives from 85 countries, regions, and international organizations, as well as more than 30000 exhibitors online and offline, achieving full coverage of South Asia, Southeast Asian countries, and member countries of regional comprehensive economic partnership agreements. Wang Yi, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office, attended the opening ceremony of the South China Expo and delivered a speech. Director Wang Yi also met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Gonawadna, Lao Vice President Bani, Nepalese Vice President Yadav, and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Chen Liuguang as invited to attend the South China Expo in China.
Over the past decade, China and South Asian countries have consolidated solidarity and cooperation, continued to jointly build the "the Belt and Road", carried out in-depth friendly exchanges, and written a new chapter of China's friendship in South Asia. The Chinese side welcomes South Asian countries to continue riding the fast train of China's development and sharing the dividends of China's development. We are willing to work with South Asian countries to seize historical opportunities, strengthen unity and cooperation, continuously cultivate new driving forces for development, build a development community, and contribute to the long-term peace, stability, and prosperity of the region.
Director Wang Yi also put forward four suggestions on deepening cooperation between China and South Asian countries: first, deepen strategic mutual trust, support each other in international and regional affairs, work together to advocate open regionalism, build closer regional cooperation, jointly safeguard the interests of developing countries, and jointly defend international fairness and justice. The second is to deepen connectivity, promote the construction of backbone channels such as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the China Nepal Cross border Railway, accelerate the construction of key channels, key nodes, and key projects, and promote the smooth upgrading of regional economic circulation. The third is to deepen economic and trade cooperation, further promote trade facilitation and institutional standard docking, drive investment cooperation through consultation, joint construction and sharing, and closely connect global production and supply chains. The fourth is to deepen cultural exchanges, tighten ties, elevate traditional friendship, and create a more cohesive and diverse social foundation for regional cooperation.
The parties expressed that South Asian countries have actively promoted the high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" with China and achieved fruitful results. The theme of this Expo is in line with the trend of the times and the development needs of various countries. We appreciate China for creating an efficient cooperation platform and helping South Asian countries ride the fast train of China's development. We look forward to strengthening unity and cooperation with China, and making contributions to regional openness, inclusiveness, peace, stability, and common development.
This year's South China Expo will have a total of 15 exhibition halls and will host 14 events during the conference. We believe that all participating parties can explore more cooperation opportunities, form more cooperation achievements, and jointly promote the development and revitalization of Asia through this grand event.
Wang Wenbin from Agence France Presse: I do not have any information on this matter.
Bloomberg's Wang Wenbin: "Freedom" is an important content of the common values of all mankind and the core socialist values. China is a country under the rule of law, and the personal freedom of Chinese citizens is protected by the Constitution and is sacred and inviolable. Under the leadership of the CPC, China has achieved two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and the Chinese people's sense of happiness and security is growing day by day. If Mr. Milley comes to China to take a walk and take a look, I believe he will come up with a completely different answer to the question of "Chinese people are not free, China is not safe".
Wang Wenbin from China News Agency: We have noticed relevant reports. The legitimacy and safety of Japan's Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharge plan have always been questioned by the international community. The nuclear contaminated water stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has once again leaked, exacerbating international concerns about Tokyo Electric Power Company's incompetence in management and ineffective government regulation.
Fukushima residents have repeatedly pointed out that since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Tokyo Electric Power Company has had numerous loopholes in its aftermath handling work, and has been repeatedly exposed for concealing and tampering with data. Its ability to dispose of nuclear contaminated water is questionable. Can Tokyo Electric Power Company handle Fukushima nuclear contaminated water safely and responsibly from beginning to end? Can we ensure that there are no mistakes or mistakes in emissions management for up to 30 years? Can we ensure the long-term effectiveness and reliability of the purification device? Can sampling and monitoring activities for nuclear contaminated water be strictly carried out in accordance with regulations? The international community has to place a big question mark on these issues.
China once again urges Japan to address the reasonable concerns of the international community and domestic people, stop forcefully promoting plans to discharge into the sea, communicate fully with neighboring countries in a sincere manner, effectively and responsibly dispose of nuclear contaminated water, and accept strict international supervision.
Agence France Presse Wang Wenbin: The question you mentioned has been answered by the spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics. You can refer to it.
What I want to say is that China's economic data release has always adhered to openness and transparency, continuously releasing various statistical data to the society, and has been highly recognized by all parties, including international organizations. In recent years, with the development of the economy and society, relevant departments have kept pace with the times and continuously reformed and improved statistical systems and methods, gradually increasing new indicators reflecting high-quality economic development. At the same time, some statistical indicators that do not conform to the actual situation have been reduced, which is a normal situation for the improvement of statistical work.
China has always been committed to promoting statistical openness and transparency, actively responding to public concerns, continuously enriching the content of statistical data release, and timely increasing statistical indicators of public concern. Now, in August, the service retail sales index has been increased, effectively meeting the data needs of the public.
CCTV Wang Wenbin: We have noticed the relevant reports. China's new energy vehicles are driving towards the world, which is a beautiful scenery for the Chinese economy to move towards greenery.
In recent years, China has continuously promoted the transformation and upgrading of its economic and social development, writing a new "green answer sheet" for high-quality development. In the first half of this year, China's new installed capacity of renewable energy reached 109 million kilowatts, accounting for 77% of the total new installed capacity. The national installed capacity of renewable energy reached 1.322 billion kilowatts, historically surpassing coal-fired power. In July this year, the production of new energy vehicles and solar cells increased by 24.9% and 65.1% year-on-year, respectively, and the production of charging stations increased by 26.6% year-on-year. China is focusing on building a modern industrial system and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with new technologies and formats. The number of coal-fired boilers and kilns nationwide has decreased from nearly 500000 to less than 100000, reducing the use of coal by over 400 million tons. The cumulative decrease in value-added energy consumption of industrial units above designated size over the past 10 years has exceeded 36%.
The green development of China's economy has contributed to the global green transformation. The China Green Trade Development Report shows that in 2021, China's green trade volume reached 1161.09 billion US dollars, becoming the world's largest green trade economy. The production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first globally for 8 consecutive years. China's production scale of clean energy equipment such as wind power and photovoltaic power generation ranks first in the world, with polycrystalline silicon, silicon wafers, batteries, and modules accounting for over 70% of global production. In the past decade, China's wind power equipment manufacturing output has accounted for more than two-thirds of the global market, exporting to 49 countries and regions worldwide. In the first half of this year, more than 40% of the world's newly installed wind power came from China. We also initiated the establishment of the "the Belt and Road" Green Development International Alliance with our partners, implemented green and low-carbon transformation cooperation, and provided an in-depth exchange and cooperation platform for the green development of the "the Belt and Road" countries.
Promoting green development is a common cause of all humanity. China will continue to adhere to the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing, accelerate the construction of a modern harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, promote higher quality, more efficient, more fair, more sustainable, and safer development, and inject more "green energy" into promoting global sustainable development and jointly building a clean and beautiful world.
Original question: On August 17, 2023, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Wenbin presided over a regular press conference
