China News Express: Zimmerman will play in Shanghai

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Photos in Xi's office

During the fresh Year's Message of president Xi Jin Pinga (chin. 习近平), broadcast for the tenth time by all media, and registered in the same interior, the visitors drew fresh photos on library shelves in the background. The number of these photos increased importantly compared to a speech registered a year ago.

In addition to the pictures of Xi's past, photographs taken during major Xi farm visits appeared on the shelves erstwhile he visited Chinese villages and towns in 2023. There were besides pictures of crucial moments of political character. For example, from the 20th legislature of the Communist organization of China, from the 3rd Forum of the Belt and Road Initiative, whether representing Xi making the presidential oath (third term). There was besides a joint photograph with erstwhile presidents and general secretaries of the party, Jiang ZeMin (died last year) and Hu JinTao. The pictures of Xi's father, his wife and his only daughter were not missing.

Source: https://baijiahao.baidu.com

BYD Number 1

The BYD (chin. 比亚迪) company with the production of 3,024,000 electrical vehicles in 2023 was one more time the largest maker of this kind of cars in the country. And not only due to the fact that it's global. BYD besides overtakes Tesla in the past year, for the first time, in this inactive short past of the race for dominance in the electrical car market.

The first 3 largest home electrical car manufacturers are

BYD (chin. 比亚迪),
GuangZhou Automobile Group (chin. 广州汽车集团) – 480,000 cars produced,
Li car – 376,000 vehicles manufactured.

China is presently the largest automotive marketplace in the world, and at the same time the largest maker of electrical vehicles on a global scale.

Source:

https://wallstreetcn.com
https://www.nbd.com.cn

Huawei Harmony in attack

According to Canada's TechInsights investigation firm, HuaWei Harmony OS will defeat IOS Apple as an operating strategy for smartphones in China this year. This is the consequence of HuaWei's return to the 5G mobile telephone segment. Although Google's Android and Apple's IOS operating systems will proceed to dominate the global market, as TechInsights predicts, Harmony will surely take over any of the marketplace shares.

Harmony is an operating strategy developed by HuaWei and launched in August 2019.

TechInsights besides predicts that Harmony will scope another milestone in 2024 with the launch of HarmonyOS Next, which will not support Android-based applications. HuaWei is already working with the largest Chinese companies to make fresh applications based on this system, which has the chance to become a Chinese OS standard.

Currently, Harmony OS provides more than 700 million devices and over 2.2 million external developers make applications for this platform,

Source:

http://www.mnw.cn
https://finance.sina.cn

PMI December 2023

According to the State Bureau of statistic (chin. 国家统) data, in December 2023 the PMI activity rate for manufacture fell 3rd period in a row, this time to the level of 49 points. In November, the reading of this index was 49,4 points.

For the record, reading PMI below 50 points means stagnation. Last year only in January, February, March and September, the reading of Chinese PMI for manufacture exceeded 50 points.

It was better in services, where throughout 2023 readings indicated activity and development. According to the State Bureau of Statistics, in December the PMI index for services in China reached 50,4 points erstwhile in November it was 50,2 points.

According to data collected by think-tank CaiXin (chin. 财新) PMI for manufacture in December was 50.8 points (in November 50.7). Why the differences in reading? Mainly due to the origin of data: State Bureau of statistic retrieves data from large companies and state enterprises, CaiXin deals with small, average and private companies.

Source:

https://wallstreetcn.com
https://www.stats.gov.cn

Zimmerman will play in Shanghai

On January 19, Shanghai will be the site of a major artistic event. The fresh period will inaugurate 上Shanghai Oriental Art Center (chin. 海东方艺术中心) the city's first solo performance by Krystian Zimerman. Shanghai media thus describes the Polish pianist:

"One of the most outstanding piano virtuosos on the global music scene, the favourite conductor pianist specified as Bernstein and Karajan will play the works of Chopin, Debussy and Szymanowski.

All tickets to this performance were sold out on December 29, 2023. Ticket prices ranged from 280 RMB (approx. 156 PLN) to 1680 RMB (approx. 938 PLN).

Source: https://www.shobserver.com

Tourism at the turn of the year

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (chin. 文化和旅游部) published data on tourism during the vacation period 30.12.2023-01.01.2024. During these 3 days, the tourist services achieved revenues of RMB 79.73 billion (about PLN 44.52 billion), an increase of 20.7% year-on-year and by 5.6% compared to the same period 2019.

The most popular in this period were tourist trips to Harbin (chin. 哈尔滨), ChangChun (chin. 长春), UrUmQi (chin. 乌鲁木齐) and ZhangJiaKou (chin. 张家口).

Tourists were besides eager to take a short vacation in GuangDong, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Source: https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn

The defeat of Chinese footballers

The start of the fresh year was not successful for Chinese football staff. In a friendly match, the country's representation lost to Hong Kong squad 1:2 and received 3 red cards.

It was the first defeat of the national squad with the Hong Kong squad since 19 May 1985, which is 39 years! The black series of Chinese football continues.

Source: https://news.sina.cn

GDP growth in 2024 – IMF forecasts

According to the forecasts of the global Monetary Fund, the largest global GDP growth in 2024 will scope China's peculiar Administrative Region AoMen/Macao (chin. 中国澳门特别行政区). That's 27.2%.

According to the same forecasts, the GDP of continental China will increase by 4.2%, the US by 1.5%, France by 1.3%, Russia by 1.1%, Japan by 1.0%, Germany by 0.9%.

Source: https://www.imp.org

Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China

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Editorial: Leszek B.

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