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The Ministry of Agriculture announced this week that it will roll out a pilot scheme to "standardise" the transfer of rural property rights, as well as "strengthening supervision and management" over the use of rural land in China, which is typically leased to farmers on 30-year "household responsibility" contracts, with the ownership remaining with the government, Radio Free Asia reported.

Responding to media queries about India overtaking China in population, Wenbin emphasized that talent resources matter most. He explained that although size matters, what matters more is the quality of a country's talent resources. He cited statistics, stating that nearly 900 million of China's 1.4 billion population are of working age and have received an average of 10.9 years of education.

The promotional video, put out by a local propaganda office, features a bare-armed Uyghur woman as a dancer from 'Women's Kingdom', a fictional polity whose queen sought to marry the Chinese protagonist of the classic Ming Dynasty novel 'Journey to the West', RFA reported.

In an interview to the Associated Press of Pakistan, COPHC chairman Yu said, "the number one obstacle is security precariousness" in making the Gwadar Port and the free economic zone functional. However, he also added that security has improved over the last many months but there is a bigger room to bridge security gaps.

"Today's society has driven young people to the point of desperation," commented one social media user, adding, "I want a place to live, but I can't afford one. I don't have time for fun, and I can't afford to raise a child   this comment from this expert is so arrogant!"

The documents also said Taiwan feared moving its aircraft to shelters could take up to a week, leaving them vulnerable to missile strikes, and that China's use of civilian ships for military purposes was hampering US intelligence's ability to predict an invasion, The Guardian reported.

In the last few months, President Xi Jinping has met Russia's Vladimir Putin; hosted several world leaders, including Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who arrived this week; sent a top envoy to court Europe; and presented a 12-point solution to the Ukraine war, BBC reported.

China's hawkish relationship with India can be well defined by the border clashes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and Beijing's close eye on New Delhi's economic growth. And to counter the Indian element, China has actively been banking, investing and supporting countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan with economic activities amid desperate and dire economic conditions for both Islamabad and Kabul.

The Dalai Lama recently courted controversy over a video in which the spiritual leader kisses a child on the lips and then asks him to "suck my tongue". The Dalai Lama later apologised to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his action may have caused. "His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras. He regrets the incident," an official statement quoting the Dalai Lama said.

"We call on commercial and multilateral creditors to take part in Sri Lanka's debt restructuring based on fair burden-sharing," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said while adding the Beijing would work with relevant countries and international financial institutions to jointly play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka navigate the situation, ease its debt burden and achieve sustainable development.