2023 has just gone, and we are now embracing 2024. Over the past one year, which video of us impressed you the most? Let's look back together.

With China's aging and shrinking working population posing challenges for the country's job market and economic development, experts have urged for more efforts to optimize the population structure and education system to ensure social stability and sustainable development.

In light of this, the Global Times is launching a series that elaborates on this unique path through the stories of ordinary people's New Year wishes.

The rapid evolution of technologies and innovations has made e-commerce, which was initially a convenient tool to buy low-priced household goods, personal accessories or services like food delivery, integral to consumption in recent years, experts said.

Boosting untapped consumption and expanding effective investment will be high on China's work agenda next year, the country's top financial and economic policymaking body said on Monday, as the country pushes ahead with efforts to sustain the sound momentum of its economic upturn.

At the port of China-Vietnam border in Hekou Yao autonomous county, southeast Yunnan province, the first wave of guests arriving each day are Vietnamese border residents who come to China for business or employment. Some of them shuttle on the same day, while others obtain temporary residence permits and choose to live in China.

Chinese products have traversed a journey from inception to prosperity in recent decades, with their popularity evolving into an unstoppable trend.

In the wake of the Central Economic Work Conference, expectations among business leaders, former officials and luminaries of academia are rising that China will seek to enhance the confidence of foreign-funded companies and further engage them in the country's pursuit of high-quality economic development.

China's emphasis on resolving cross-border data flow issues and developing digital trade and cross-border e-commerce exports will further unleash the value of massive data resources and inject fresh impetus into the digital economy, demonstrating the country's firm determination to advance high-standard opening-up, experts said.

More efforts are needed to promote exchanges among the youth of China and Vietnam, as the younger generation is the future of the bilateral friendship, said Vietnamese experts and students.

Economic and trade ties between China and Vietnam will be bolstered further as they capitalize on their complementary industrial structures and collaborative frameworks, ushering in new growth points for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Belt and Road Initiative, officials and business leaders said.

China's consumer prices dropped for the second consecutive month in November, indicating still-weak demand and backing the case for further policy support, including a likely reduction in the reserve requirement ratio for banks, economists said on Sunday.

China is building out the digital infrastructure of its countryside. Yunnan province offers a case study of how to get the best results.

At first glance, new industrialization sounds like one of those big, empty words that only policymakers and macroeconomists love to mouth. As one who has been reporting on China's top industry regulator's policies for more than eight years, even I found it to be quite a mouthful. That apart, until recently, I barely grasped its essence. But once I did, I wished I had done so much, much earlier. Let me explain by telling you a story.

The State Council, or China's Cabinet, adopted a package of policy measures on Friday to integrate its domestic and foreign trade at a faster pace, as part of the country's efforts to create a new development paradigm and promote high-quality growth.

In the Cangyuan Wa autonomous county sits in southwest Yunnan’s Lincang city, there is special choir. Named “Washan Shaonian”(Young Children from the Wa Mountain), the choir consists of over 130 local pupils from three different elementary schools.

Chinese chipmaker Loongson Technology's latest self-developed central processing unit marks a big stride in China's homegrown chip technology, but greater efforts are needed to build a software ecosystem to promote its use, experts said.

At the entrance to the Kunming Flying Tigers Museum in Yunnan, visitors are often seen taking pictures in front of a very special aircraft nose.

A flight jacket with bullet holes is displayed at the Kunming Flying Tigers Museum. The jacket’s owner, Chen Bingjing, was one of 12 Chinese “Flying Tigers” of the 14th Air Force.

To make the smart grid really smart and stable, more relentless efforts are needed from both companies and industrial regulators.