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BaiJiaYun Limited Announces Completion of Merger and New Board and Management

BEIJING, Dec. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — BaiJiaYun Limited (“BaiJiaYun”) today announced the successful completion of the transaction (the “Transaction”) previously announced on July 19, 2022 between BaiJiaYun and Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (“Fuwei Films” or the “Company”). As announced on September 26, 2022, the Transaction and certain additional Transaction-related proposals were approved by Fuwei Films’ shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held on September 24, 2022 (the “EGM”). Among such proposals, the Company’s name will be changed from “Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd.” to “ Baijiayun Group Ltd“. The Company continues to be listed on Nasdaq and its ticker is expected to be changed from “FFHL” to “RTC”.

Completion of Transaction

Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated July 18, 2022, by and between Fuwei Films and BaiJiaYun (the “Merger Agreement”), at the closing of the Transaction (the “Closing”), the then shareholders of BaiJiaYun exchanged all of the issued and outstanding share capital of BaiJiaYun for newly issued shares of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement. As a result of the Transaction, BaiJiaYun has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Immediately prior to the Closing, the third amended and restated memorandum of association and the second amended and restated articles of association of the Company, as approved at the EGM, became effective. Immediately after the Closing, the securities issued and outstanding of the Company will be: (i) 29,201,849 class A ordinary shares, (ii) 54,583,957 class B ordinary shares, and (iii) warrants to subscribe for 17,964,879 class A ordinary shares.

In connection with the Transaction, Linklaters served as legal counsel to BaiJiaYun.

Name and Ticker

As approved at the EGM, the Company’s name will be changed from “Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd.” to “Baijiayun Group Ltd ” effective from the date of entry of the new name in place of the existing name of the Company on the register of companies maintained by the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands. The ticker of the Company is expected to be changed from “FFHL” to “RTC”.

New Board and Management

The Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) and management currently consist of the following members, effective upon the Closing in accordance with the Merger Agreement:

  • Mr. Gangjiang Li, the founder of BaiJiaYun, has been appointed the chairman of the Board, the Company’s chief executive officer, and the chairperson of the compensation committee of the Board.
  • Mr. Yi Ma, previously a director of BaiJiaYun, has been appointed a director and the president of the Company and the chairperson of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board.
  • Mr. Chun Liu has been appointed an independent director of the Company, a member of the audit committee of the Company and a member of the compensation committee of the Board.
  • Mr. Erlu Lin has been appointed an independent director of the Company, the chairperson of the audit committee of the Board and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board.
  • Mr. Lei Yan, previously the chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Fuwei Films, has been appointed a director of the Company.
  • Mr. Yong Fang has been appointed the chief financial officer of the Company.

Ms. Jingjing Cheng, previously the chief financial officer and a director of Fuwei Films, Mr. Tee Chuang Khoo, Mr. Junying Liu, and Mr. Lihang Geng, each previously an independent director of Fuwei Films, have all resigned from their respective roles.

About Baijiayun Group Ltd 

Baijiayun Group Ltd and its subsidiaries (“Baijiayun Group”) is a video-centric technology solution provider with core expertise in SaaS/PaaS solutions. Baijiayun Group is committed to delivering reliable, high-quality video experiences across devices and localities and have grown rapidly since the inception in 2017. Premised on its industry-leading video-centric technologies, Baijiayun Group offers a wealth of video-centric technology solutions including Video SaaS/PaaS, Video Cloud and Software, Video AI and System Solutions. Baijiayun Group is catered to the evolving communications and collaboration needs of enterprises of all sizes and industry, which makes Baijiayun Group a one-stop video technology solution provider.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements.” These statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the parties’ perspectives and expectations, are forward-looking statements. The words “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan” and similar expressions indicate forward-looking statements.

Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and shareholders and other potential investors must recognize that actual results may differ materially from the expectations as a result of a variety of factors. Such forward-looking statements are based upon management’s current expectations and include known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are hard to predict or control, that may cause the actual results, performance, or plans to differ materially from any future results, performance or plans expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking information provided herein represents the Company’s estimates as of the date of this press release, and subsequent events and developments may cause the Company’s estimates to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking information in the future. Therefore, this forward-looking information should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s estimates of its future financial performance as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

A further list and description of risks and uncertainties can be found in the proxy statement filed as exhibit 99.2 to the Form 6-K on August 22, 2022, and other documents that the parties have filed or furnished, or may file or furnish with the SEC, which you are encouraged to read. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate only to the date they were made, and the Company, BaiJiaYun and their subsidiaries and affiliates undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made except as required by law or applicable regulation.

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Five Types of Shoppers You’ll Find This Holiday Season (and the Cyberscams They Must Watch Out For)

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — With the holidays around the corner, we’re smack in the middle of every shopper’s favourite season. Big sales days like Singles’ Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and 12.12 all offer many great opportunities for shoppers to get their fill of good deals.

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cloud company that powers and protects life online, shares five common shopper profiles observed during the year-end shopping period and the cyberscams they should watch out for to help consumers and businesses identify potential blind spots, and learn how to protect themselves this holiday season.

“The number of cyber-attacks continues to rise and mutate all the time. In 2022, the most alarming has been the sharp increase in malicious bot attacks, where we recorded a three-fold increase of such attacks. What this means for the retail industry is the likelihood of increased credential stuffing, where attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach into a system and data scraping attacks, the process of importing information from a website into a spreadsheet or local file saved on your computer.” said Dean Houari, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, APJ, Akamai.

“It is no surprise that attackers are looking to take advantage of the flurry of peak retail activity online during the extended shopping festival season since there’s much to gain financially, especially in Asia that accounts for approximately 60 percent of global ecommerce sales. It’s essential that both shoppers and retailers work together to learn how to watch out for scams and protect themselves,” he continued.

FIVE TYPES OF YEAR-END SHOPPERS

1.     THE PLANNER
You can spot a planner miles away! Planners have their presents wrapped and ready, months before the holidays. Making and planning purchases well ahead of time, Planners often save their credit card information, log ins and other personal information on shopping sites.

Most likely to fall for: Credential Stuffing
During such attacks, attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach into a system via malicious bots, based on the assumption that many users reuse usernames and passwords across multiple services.

Tips to protect against credential stuffing:

  • Be wary of saving payment details on merchant websites. While this may be convenient, it can leave data vulnerable if the merchant is breached.
  • Practice good password hygiene, by setting up different passwords for different sites. Better yet – use a password manager to set up unique, difficult-to-guess passwords.

2.     THE LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLER
The opposite of Planners, Last-Minute Shoppers often remember its sale day on 11.11 or 12.12 itself, just before the clock strikes midnight. They snag their deals, but it’s always down to the wire for them!

Most likely to fall for: Phishing
In their rush, the Last-Minute Shopper is likely to accidentally click on untrustworthy links and fall prey to phishing scams. What appears to be an email from a reputable retailer with a coveted discount may be fraudulent, but the last-minute shopper doesn’t have time to check.

With the rise of online marketplaces, this is becoming more common. Earlier this year, Singapore’s most popular peer-to-peer sales platform was affected when attackers posing as legitimate buyers directed victims to a fake bank website where they would be asked to give their banking details to receive payment. This resulted in at least 72 people losing over $109,000

Tips to protect against phishing

  • Verify the validity of sites before clicking on them or providing any personal information.
  • If emails are unsolicited, be alert to any potential errors. Do not proceed if it includes wrong information, or requests to enable macros, adjust security settings or install applications.

3.     The Bargain Hunter
The price point is the most significant purchase consideration for these shoppers, who would sift through various sites to get a substantial deal.

Most likely to fall for: Social Engineering Attacks
Bargain hunters would be likely to click on spoofed emails or accept malicious extensions that function as price comparison tools.

Attackers prey on buyer’s eagerness for a good deal by sending them fake offers that request for their personal data on a page, even impersonating legitimate tools like Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager to compromise code and steal valuable information, impacting shopping sites.

Tips to protect against social engineering attacks

  • Always verify the validity of the offer and the legitimacy of the sender.
  • Use a good spam filter for emails, as a first barrier of defence against suspicious files and links.

4.     The Impulse Buyer
Driven solely by emotions, impulse shoppers often do not have a specific product in mind before placing an order. They often respond to time pressure to access a coveted item on a limited time offer, at a price too good to refuse.

Most likely to fall for: Brand Impersonation Attacks
Via fraudulent links, cybercriminals impersonate popular brands, tricking victims into sharing personal information, buying contraband products, visiting a fake website, downloading malware, and more. Exacerbating these trends is social media, where attackers can easily impersonate brands, engage with customers seeking to purchase items, and request for their personal details.

Tips to protect against brand impersonation

  • Scrutinize links provided in emails and be on high alert if they are not pointing to the correct location or direct to a third-party site not affiliated with the brand.
  • If in doubt, reach out to the brand on their official channels to verify offers before clicking on any links to make payments. Make sure to check that accounts are verified.

5.     The Researcher
Researchers extensively compare products and offers before purchasing. They often have various browser extensions installed on their browsers to make quick comparisons.

Most likely to fall for: Extension Malware Attacks 
Cybercriminals hide viruses behind add-ons, which can then install adverts, gather users’ browsing history, and seek login credentials by impersonating famous apps and extensions. Malicious extensions could go undetected especially if security software programs treat known extensions as trusted applications.

Most recently, attackers have been using information-stealing malware like FB Stealer, which mimics the harmless and standard-looking Chrome extension Google Translate, to prey on users. Financially motivated, attackers after effectively locking a user out of their Facebook account, abuse access to ask the victim’s friends for money.

Tips to protect against extension malware attacks

  • Only install extensions from official Web stores.
  • If permissions that extensions require even before installing seem suspicious, it’ll be best not to install them.

Retailers must do their part too!
For a cybersafe shopping experience, retailers have a part to play as well.

Attacks on popular retail behemoths in the last few years have revealed important lessons for merchants. Prevention is better than cure. Taking proactive steps to monitor potential threats and being ready to block unauthorised access and keep shoppers safe throughout their retail experience is essential.

“As web traffic increases, attackers similarly increase their attacks. Case in point,  malicious bot attacks tripled during Single’s Day last year. These attacks could, immediately or in future, drain customer accounts, damage site functionality, and hold encrypted data ransom — all at enormous costs to businesses,” explained Houari.

“To ensure loyalty long term, retailers must make every effort to keep shopper data safe. This could include deploying a bot solution to stop credential stuffing attempts early and using password managers and multi factor authentication to secure users,” he concluded.

About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Learn more about Akamai’s security, compute, and delivery solutions at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Source: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

The 29th China International Advertising Festival opened in Xiamen boosts the iteration and upgrading of the advertising industry in the Web3.0 era

XIAMEN, China, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The 29th China International Advertising Festival (29th CIAF), which is sponsored by China Advertising Association (CAA) and supported by Xiamen People’s Government, launched in Xiamen on December 21, 2022.

The opening of the 29th CIAF also attracts close attention of the advertising and media industry worldwide. To express the support of the international advertising industry for China’s advertising and media industry and his warm congratulations to this Festival, Mr. Sasan Saeidi, Chairman and Global President of the International Advertising Association (IAA),  recorded a video to wish the 29th CIAF a complete success and shown his expectation of presenting at the 30th CIAF next year. He said the close relationship between CAA and IAA is crucial and significant, and he is looking forward to expand the fields of cooperation and update the content of cooperation in order to create a greater interaction.

With the opening of the 29th CIAF, CAA Chairman Zhang Guohua announced two influential and favorable projects about the advertising industry, i.e., the advertising alliance chain and the Metaverse Circle, a “national green consumption brand metaverse” platform.

Ten summit forums, five launch events and five professional exhibitions will be held during the Festival. Also, there will be free exhibitions for all the visitors. Welcome all the advertisers to enjoy the exclusive carnival and witness the prosperity of the Chinese advertising industry.

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Tencent Cloud Empowers Pakistan’s Top Livestreaming Portal ARY to Provide High Quality Streaming Experience to Viewers

HONG KONG, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud – the cloud business of global technology company Tencent – announced its collaboration with ARY ZAP, Pakistan’s top live broadcast platform owned by ARY Digital Network, where Tencent Cloud Media Services will be enabling ARY ZAP to deliver high-quality and low-latency streaming experience to its users.

Responsible for streaming the world’s top soccer championships such as the World Cup and the LaLiga to Pakistani users, ARY ZAP also won the rights to broadcast the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, the most popular cricket tournament globally. To cope with the large number of concurrent view access requests and high demand for the content distribution bandwidth of these events, Tencent Cloud Media Services have provided a full suite of live sports streaming solutions that support ARY ZAP to livestream a total of 136 matches of global sports events, with a peak bandwidth utilization of around 1Tbps and peak concurrent views of nearly 1 million.

Leveraging Tencent Cloud’s expertise built over the past 20 years, ARY ZAP managed to deploy its live broadcast service on cloud within 20 days, delivering ultra-high definition sports events to its users. ARY ZAP also benefitted from Tencent Cloud’s products and services including Cloud Streaming Services, StreamPackage and StreamLive, which improve its capability to provide stable live video streaming and reduced ‘stuttering rate’ by 40%.

Furthermore, the multi-input auto-failover capability of Tencent Cloud ensured stable transmission service for the original live feeds, and the multi-region and multi-availability zone cloud design provided a reliable media service center, where professional video processing capabilities such as multiple video codecs, streaming protocols and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) were utilized to ensure the live video quality. These industry-leading technologies helped ARY ZAP provide a top-notch user experience, while reducing bandwidth and storage costs when compressing video bitrates, increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of ARY ZAP’s business operations.

Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President, Tencent Cloud International, said, “Tencent Cloud is committed to helping media and communications companies all around the world provide the best, high-quality streaming experiences to their viewers. Through our collaboration with ARY ZAP, viewers and sports fans in Pakistan can be assured of a continuous, uninterrupted and real-time experience while watching their favorite, most exciting entertainment and athletic events. We strive to support more media groups from other countries in the future.”

Tencent Cloud is committed to providing a professional, stable, and high-quality live streaming media processing platform for global users. With live audio and video streaming such as live sports, esports, and other live shows requiring high-quality transcoding, accelerated delivery services, instant loading of live streams, and more, Tencent’s streaming services combine its self-developed audio and video technology platform and the computing resources of Tencent Cloud’s global deployment of 70 availability zones and over 2,800 acceleration nodes, to support stable live streaming services with a latency as low as 800ms and under.

About Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel and transportation.

About Tencent Cloud Media Services

Tencent Cloud Media Services has accumulated over 20 years of experience in audio & video technologies, providing industry-leading, comprehensive one-stop media solutions from PaaS to SaaS, including real-time communication, video on demand, live streaming, global acceleration and security. It provides support for customers from content creation, processing, to distribution, enabling real-time and engaging audience experiences worldwide.

Media, think tanks urged to contribute to China-Arab community with shared future

BEIJING, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn on the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future and the responsibilities of media and think tanks:

More than 50 experts and scholars called for media and think tanks to contribute to the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future at an online seminar on Dec. 15.

The seminar was hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG) and jointly organized by its Center for Europe and Africa, China.org.cn, and Egypt’s Bayt Al-Hekma Cultural Group. 

An online seminar on the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future and the responsibilities of media and think tanks is held on Dec. 15.
An online seminar on the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future and the responsibilities of media and think tanks is held on Dec. 15.

Gao Anming, vice president of CICG, said via video link that the first China-Arab States Summit and the first China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit recently held in Riyadh represent an epoch-making milestone in the history of China-Arab relations.

Gao said that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aligns with the development vision and future plans of many Arab countries. The all-round, multi-tiered and wide-ranging practical cooperation between China and Arab countries has been accelerated and upgraded under the framework of the BRI. 

Gao noted that as China-Arab relations enter a new historical stage, the two sides should adopt a higher historical perspective and a broader global vision, further leverage their advantages, map out more precise, efficient and practical paths for media and think tank exchanges and cooperation, build more platforms for cooperation and exchange, and promote mutual visits and dialogue.

Gao urged the two sides to continue to increase the frequency, scale and level of exchanges, strengthen discussions and exchanges on common topics, and make joint contributions to the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future oriented to the new era through close cooperation between media and think tanks.

Ahmed Al-Saeed, CEO of Bayt Al-Hekma Cultural Group, pointed out that China-Arab friendship and cultural exchanges date back to ancient times, with historical relations always being based on mutual respect. As the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, it is necessary for China and Arab countries to continue friendship and enhance cooperation. China has set an example for Arab countries to explore their own development path, and China also needs the support of Arab countries, he said. 

He added that think tanks and media will play a positive role in the development of China-Arab relations, consolidate mutual trust, and promote the transition from a unipolar stage to a multipolar one in a turbulent world, so as to create a future of unity rather than division.

Wu Sike, former Chinese representative to the League of Arab States and former Chinese special envoy to the Middle East, pointed out that media exchanges are an important way to promote mutual understanding between the peoples of China and Arab countries and an important bond for boosting people-to-people ties. 

In the face of profound and complex changes in the international and regional situation, Chinese and Arab media should adhere to the concepts of mutual respect, exchanges and mutual learning, solidarity and mutual assistance, understand and support each other on issues concerning each other’s core interests, strengthen solidarity and cooperation on international and regional issues, practice multilateralism in the true sense, and uphold international fairness and justice and the common interests of developing countries, he said.

Experts at the meeting agreed that over the past years, China-Arab relations have made great progress in various fields, but there remains a certain information deficit. In the process of building a China-Arab community with a shared future oriented to the new era, media and think tanks of the two sides should consciously undertake the mission and responsibility of promoting China-Arab communication and exchanges, and use their respective strengths to advance people-to-people exchanges between China and Arab countries. 

They added that media and think tanks should jointly amplify their voices to the outside world, break the distortion and smearing of China-Arab cooperation by the United States and other Western powers, remove the path of dependence on Western studies and the dualistic narrative mode, introduce the real situation of China-Arab cooperation to the world, and give a strong voice for China and the Middle East to the international public, and jointly safeguard the image and interests of developing countries to create a favorable international public opinion environment for China-Arab friendly exchanges and common development. 

They concurred that media and think tanks should strengthen exchanges and cooperation, increase mutual visits and dialogue, build more platforms for cooperation and exchanges, and pool and leverage their strength.

Based on the consensus reached among the event’s attendees, Hu Baomin, director of the Center for Europe and Africa, delivered a closing speech for the seminar. He said he hoped that both sides can take the seminar as a new starting point to advance people-to-people exchanges between China and Arab states, and make their due contributions to the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future, the common good of the two peoples, and the future development of China-Arab relations.

Media, think tanks urged to contribute to China-Arab community with shared future

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Guizhou Satellite TV released a video: Kazakh sisters experience Bouyei culture in an immersive way


GUIYANG, China, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Xingyi finds itself in the southwest region of Guizhou Province, China, has always been a commercial distribution center, pivoting point and fortress in the intersection area of provinces Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi. It is known as “pivoting point of three provinces” and an important node city on the great sea route in southwest China.

Located in the world-recognized golden climate ecological zone, Xingyi has beautiful mountains and rivers, a pleasant climate and deep cultural heritage. The ethnic customs are rich and the ethnic culture is colorful. The “Eight-Tone Sitting Singing” of the Bouyei music enjoys the reputation of “Sound of Nature” and “Living Fossil of Sound” both at home and abroad. It has been included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage along with the Twelve Compositions with Bouyei Bronze Drums, the Bouyei Opera and the Leyou of the Bouyei people.

The short video series “Be My Guest” produced by Guizhou Satellite TV invites foreigners to visit Guizhou in the form of a reality show to record their real life on the spot. In this episode, Yelshibek Botakoz and Yelshibek Tomiris, sisters from Kazakhstan were full of yearning for Guizhou’s scenery and culture. They came to Xingyi and followed the Bouyei sisters Hani and Xiduo to see the distant mountains, taste specialties, and listen to the ethnic music. They winessed Guizhou’s unique karst topography, tasted the unique food made from glutinous rice of the Bouyei people and heard the “Living fossil of Sound” of the Bouyei people – “Eight-Tone Sitting Singing” lingering, so that they have experienced of the various ethnic cultures of the Bouyei people in an immersive way.

“The Bouyei people are truly one with nature.” The sisters Yelshibek Botakoz and Yelshibek Tomiris are deeply touched by the life state of the Bouyei people that is closely related to nature. The sisters hope that they could bring their family members come and experience the unique customs of Guizhou next time.

Contact:
Yu Xiaoying
Tel.: 0086851-85377412
Email: guizhou1gc@163.com

Case study collection unveils Gansu’s development in past decade

BEIJING, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by China.org.cn: A collection of case studies highlighting best poverty alleviation and rural development practices that have been implemented in Gansu province over the past 10 years known as “Building a Better Life in China: Gansu Practice” was unveiled.

On Dec. 15, a collection of case studies highlighting best poverty alleviation and rural development practices that have been implemented in Gansu province over the past 10 years known as “Building a Better Life in China: Gansu Practice” was unveiled at the online South-South Cooperation Dialogue on Rural Youth Development Invigorated by E-commerce event.

Located in western China and home to the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the administrative area had a poverty rate of 26.5 percent, or 6.92 million people, in 2012.

“Once one of the most impoverished areas in China, Gansu province achieved the dream of eliminating poverty on schedule through arduous efforts,” Carlos Watson, FAO representative to the People’s Republic of China, remarked. “Its experience demonstrates that strong government leadership, innovative approaches and technologies, and development models involving undertakings such as dryland farming and e-commerce have the ability to effectively promote and facilitate poverty reduction and rural vitalization and are enlightening for other developing countries.”

Capturing aspects of China’s development in the new era, the 10 sustainable development solutions contained in the book vividly depict methods Gansu has used to reduce extreme poverty and improve living standards in its borders for readers around the world and cover areas such as specialty foods, water resources, ecological restoration, rural education, cultural preservation, intangible cultural heritage and development of characteristic industries.

WFP has been participating in, contributing to, and witnessing the agricultural and rural development and poverty reduction that have been occurring in China, noted Dr. Qu Sixi, representative and country director of WFP China. “We are willing to strengthen cooperation with Gansu province, explore innovative methods of achieving sustainable agricultural development and general rural development with it, and share successful experiences achieved and applicable practices employed in Gansu and other parts of China with other developing countries in order to help them improve food security and nutrition.”

Chinese and English versions of the case studies were compiled by the Information Office of the Gansu Provincial People’s Government and the Global Center on Development Knowledge Sharing – a thinktank that was co-established by China Internet Information Center (CIIC) and the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies (ACCWS) and operates under the supervision of their parent company, China International Communications Group (CICG).

“All the people living in rural parts of Gansu who were impoverished have escaped from poverty,” explained Zhang Binqiang, head of the Information Office of Gansu Provincial People’s Government. “The problem of absolute poverty, which has plagued us for hundreds of years, has come to a historic resolution. I believe that our experience in the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects can serve as useful wisdom and reference for the international cause of poverty reduction on top of the profound impact that has been made in China.”

The South-South Cooperation Dialogue on Rural Youth Development Invigorated by E-commerce was co-organized by the World Food Programme Centre of Excellence in China (WFP China COE) in collaboration with AliResearch with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA). The event was designed to facilitate sharing of developing countries’ experiences with e-commerce and corresponding good practices and provide a platform for young entrepreneurs to discuss and explore this important topic and exchange useful information.

Case study collection unveils Gansu’s development in past decade
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Chris Lee Sings the Promotional Song for BBC’s Frozen Planet II, a Co-production with MIGU Video

BEIJING, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Now, 11 years later, the annual BBC Earth series, Frozen Planet II, co-produced by MIGU Video, will be exclusively aired on the Chinese online video platform at 10:00 am Beijing time on December 17. The music video of the international promotional song for the series, Send Them Home, co-created by famous Chinese pop singer Chris Lee and award-winner German composer Hans Zimmer, will first premiere on MIGU Video and MIGU Music on December 16, giving audiences everywhere an opportunity to enjoy the elements of nature in the music.

Chris Lee sings the promotional song for Frozen Planet II, a co-production of BBC and MIGU Video
Chris Lee sings the promotional song for Frozen Planet II, a co-production of BBC and MIGU Video

Lee has long devoted herself to the cause of environmental protection and served as both the Sichuan Panda Ambassador and Earth Hour China Ambassador, roles that gave her a platform from which she has called on the public to pay attention to climate change and build environmental awareness in practice. Lee’s unremitting efforts at raising the alarm about the need for environmental protection fit perfectly with the central idea of Frozen Planet II. On the track, Send It Home, she interprets the intended message of the documentary’s various episodes, expressing the fascination she feels as she observes the diversity of nature and of the creatures that inhabit the world’s coldest regions, while evoking the spirit of reverence and respect for nature… and reminding us of how important it is to protect those revered creatures and the environment that they need to survive.

Frozen Planet II is another masterpiece from BBC’s powerful Earth series. The film crew spent three years traveling to 18 countries and regions around the world, using the most advanced photography to make the six episodes – Frozen Worlds, Frozen Oceans, Frozen Peaks, Frozen South, Frozen Lands, and Our Frozen Planet, each of which allows viewers to experience the wonder of our planet’s frozen realms from different perspectives. Going further than Series 1, the lineup of episodes explores the frozen worlds beyond the Poles – witnessing the unknown natural mysteries in our high mountains, frozen deserts, snowbound forests, and ice-cold oceans, while documenting in vivid detail the wildlife in each chilly habitat and the evolution of the local natural ecology. The changing frozen planet is a recurring theme highlighted by the series, which will also showcase how regions covered in ice and snow for millennia have been altered as a result of global warming. Through the documentary, viewers can learn about the severe effects of these unprecedented changes on the local habitat, raising their awareness of the significance of these frozen areas in Earth’s ecology as well as of the critical importance of environmental conservation.

In addition to the six-part series, every Wednesday at noon starting on December 21, China Mobile MIGU, which has exclusive rights to the series, will release 6 mini episodes of Frozen Planet II, to which Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng, women’s football goalkeeper Zhao Lina and singer Wu Jiacheng, among other guests, have been invited and where they will lend their voices to the animals in the documentary such as the king penguins, skeleton shrimps and wolves that populate the habitat, bringing to life the best and most vivid moments that belong to each of these species.

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Puzzles & Survival Has Released Its Holiday Update “Dinosaur Resurgence” and the First Episode of a Live-action Video Series

GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 37 Games, the publisher of the zombie-themed match-3 game Puzzles and Survival is releasing the Dinosaur Resurgence update for the winter holidays today.

Along with the Dinosaur Resurgence update, the first episode of the official Puzzles and Survival live action video series, titled “The Mysterious Footprint”, has also been released. Each of the 4 episodes in the video series will follow development in the game’s narrative and will be released alongside future content updates.

Link to the First Video: https://youtu.be/ubPtrMepw2k

Dinosaurs Awakened on Tomoyo’s Birthday

Tomoyo thought her birthday would be the same as it was the previous few years, and she expected to celebrate her good fortune with the other survivors in her sanctuary. However, her festivities would be disrupted by a mysterious letter from Origin Technologies.

Origin had been secretly conducting experiments on fossils, and the dinosaurs they had resurrected escaped into the wild, where many of them were turned into zombies, including the Tyrannosaurus variant known as the Invictus Rex. However, the escape was no accident, and had been planned by Origin Technologies for quite some time. Now, long-extinct creatures from 65 million years ago have been found outside of the sanctuary.

How will the survivors cope with these creatures from another timeline?

Play the game and watch the live action series to find out.


Seven Holiday Themed Events

In Dinosaur Resurgence, players will have to protect themselves and other survivors from the dinosaurs over seven holiday themed events. They will have to raise dinosaurs, help escort unmutated dinosaurs home, and work together with alliance members to defeat the Invictus Rex.

Multiple All-new Skins & Items

For players who enjoy item collection, this new update features both dinosaur-themed and holiday-themed items and skins, as well as items with anime and science fiction themes. Every player can choose an awesome new look this new year.

Celebrating Major Milestones with a Gift Code

Puzzles and Survival has been downloaded over 50 million times, has been featured on the iOS and Google Play app stores multiple times, and is one of the top grossing games in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

To celebrate these milestones, and to express their heartfelt gratitude, the Puzzles & Survival team is offering the following gift code PNSREX so that every player can celebrate along with them.

The Dinosaur Resurgence update for Puzzles and Survival has been officially released! You and all of your friends should hurry up and experience all of the awesome content as soon as possible.

For more updates about events and activities, please visit the following links below:

Download Link on Store: https://pse.is/4lcd3j

Official Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/PnS.37Games

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CGTN: Infrastructure, vaccines and space: China-Arab sci-tech cooperation

BEIJING, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China-Arab cooperation in the fields of infrastructure, space and health has been continuously developed in a sustainable manner.

China has vowed to accelerate the development of the China-Arab inter-governmental science and technology innovation cooperation mechanism.

The country will implement more partner projects, and continue to improve the sci-tech capabilities of Arab states.

Lusail Stadium: first China-built World Cup venue

Lusail Stadium, the main venue for this year’s World Cup, was constructed with China Railway Construction Corporation as the main contractor.

Shaped like a date palm bowl or an enamel lantern, the stadium will host the World Cup final, scheduled for December 18.

It is the first time a Chinese company has built a World Cup venue, which is featured on the new 10-riyal banknote of Qatar.

“The Lusail Stadium is by far the world’s largest, most advanced and most complex professional football stadium built to FIFA standards,” Li Chongyang, head of the Chinese side of the engineering team, told the China Media Group (CMG).

Lusail Stadium, which can host 80,000 spectators, shows Chinese enterprises’ technical capabilities and service levels, Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy for 2022 FIFA World Cup, told CGTN.

China-UAE joint vaccines projects

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) helped China with the clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine and later established localized production lines.

In 2020, the UAE approved registration of an inactivated vaccine developed by China’s Sinopharm.

“The UAE was the first country to approach a Chinese vaccine,” Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, the UAE ambassador to China, told CGTN. “The production facility can produce 200 million doses per year. The vaccine is not for the UAE, not for China, but for the rest of the world.”

Space cooperation

China is pushing forward space cooperation with countries participating in the BRI.

China and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding on March 16, 2017, sharing the scientific data in space cooperation.

The two then jointly unveiled three lunar images acquired through cooperation on the relay satellite mission for Chang’e-4 lunar probe, according to the China National Space Administration.

In 2018, the China-Arab States BDS/GNSS Center, the first overseas center for China’s indigenous Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), was inaugurated in Tunisia. BDS-related cooperation expanded to more Arab states in 2021 as they agreed to implement more pilot projects.

In addition, Kuwait’s national satellite team looks forward to cooperating with China.

Link: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-10/Infrastructure-vaccines-and-space-China-Arab-sci-tech-cooperation-1fDKJNs4QuI/index.html