China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project topped the annual target in 2023 with 8.53 bln m3 of water transferred via the eastern and middle routes. A total of 68 bln m3 of water has been transferred since Dec 2014, benefiting over 176 mln residents in 44 cities.
Southwest China's #Tibet received a total of 49.66 million tourist trips in the first nine months of 2023, up 67.4% YoY, while the #tourism revenue topped 59.3 billion yuan (about $8.1 billion), a YoY increase of 46.2%, a regional govt press conference introduced Thursday.
China saw some 40% of its minerals posting an increase in reserve in 2022, including copper, lead, nickel, cobalt and lithium, while another 132 new mineral fields were discovered last year, a latest report said, noting the country is home to 173 kinds of minerals. #minerals
Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, passed away on Friday in Beijing, aged 60.
Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and their cub Xiao Qi Ji, the three giant pandas at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, will return to China by mid-November, the zoo announced.
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