Recently, CCTV has released a number of good news involving high-quality development, aerospace, medical technology, etc., and the positive factors and favorable conditions supporting the steady and positive economic development have increased significantly, from which the development vitality of China's economy can be truly felt.
China's high-quality economic development has accumulated multiple benefits.
A new round of "trade-in" action plan was deliberated and approved.
On March 1, the executive meeting deliberated and approved the "Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in", which is a major decision made by focusing on the overall situation of China's high-quality development. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to combine the differentiated needs of various equipment and consumer goods upgrading, increase fiscal, tax, financial and other policy support, orderly promote the renewal and transformation of equipment in key industries, construction and municipal infrastructure equipment, transportation equipment and old agricultural machinery, education and medical equipment, and actively carry out the trade-in of consumer goods such as automobiles and home appliances to form a scale effect of upgrading. At the same time of exchanging the old for the new, it is necessary to establish and improve the first-class utilization system, promote the remanufacturing of waste equipment, and improve the level of resource recycling.
In planning and building affordable housing, it is necessary to find out the needs of wage and salary groups.
In order to promote the construction and supply of affordable housing with high efficiency and quality, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development requires all localities to speed up the establishment of a waiting mechanism, find out the needs of wage and salary groups, and accelerate the start of construction of the first batch of projects. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development also requires that all localities should clarify the timetable, roadmap, and responsible person, and should build according to the needs and explore and practice in combination with local conditions.
China Eastern Airlines' fifth C919 large passenger aircraft was delivered.
On the morning of March 2, China Eastern Airlines' fifth C919 domestic large passenger aircraft was officially delivered to the China Eastern Airlines fleet, which also means that the world's first order for C919 large passenger aircraft has been delivered. On May 28, 2023, China Eastern Airlines' world's first C919 made its commercial maiden flight. From May 29, C919 began to operate the route between Shanghai Hongqiao and Chengdu Tianfu. It is understood that from the start of commercial operation on May 28, 2023 to January 31, 2024, the four C919 passenger aircraft that have been delivered to China Eastern Airlines have accumulated 2,666 hours of commercial operation, carried a total of 918 commercial flights, and carried more than 11 passengers60,000 people.
The development of scientific and technological innovation has entered the fast lane.
For the first time, Chinese astronauts have completed extravehicular maintenance tasks.
According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 13:32 on March 2, after about 8 hours of out-of-orbit activities, Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked closely together, with the cooperation and support of the space station's robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, to complete all the scheduled tasks of the second out-of-orbit activity, and the out-of-orbit was a complete success. This is the first time that Chinese astronauts have completed the maintenance of extravehicular facilities of an in-orbit spacecraft.
The Chinese research team has successfully conducted clinical trials of wireless minimally invasive brain-computer interface.
In recent years, with the continuous development of brain-computer technology, people with aphasia have frequently appeared in our field of vision to "speak" and command machinery through "ideas". The research team of Tsinghua University recently announced the progress of two clinical trials of brain-computer interfaces.
Snow Eagle 601 completed its 40th Antarctic expedition.
China's first polar fixed-wing aircraft, "Snow Eagle 601", has successfully completed all the flight missions of China's 40th Antarctic expedition and has now transferred away from Antarctica. During this expedition, "Snow Eagle 601" completed a total of 44 flights, among which the implementation of the international cooperation "Ring" plan for the international cooperation of aviation subglacial survey around the edge of the Antarctic ice sheet won high praise in the world, and also provided personnel and material transportation support and emergency support in China's East Antarctic expedition activities.
Play a good spring ploughing "first move" to lay a solid foundation for a bumper harvest.
The main chemical fertilizer varieties of spring ploughing are stable.
During this year's spring ploughing, the national supply and marketing cooperative system will purchase about 35 million tons of fertilizer. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of the end of February, the national provincial and county-level fertilizer rates were in place. 5%, the main chemical fertilizer varieties of spring ploughing are stable.
2024 Minimum Paddy Purchase** Announced.
With the approval of ***, the state will continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy in the main rice producing areas this year, and the minimum purchase prices of early indica rice (third class), middle and late indica rice and japonica rice produced in 2024 will be 127 yuan, 129 yuan and 131 yuan per 50 kg respectively. The total amount of rice purchased at the minimum purchase price in 2024 is 50 million tons, including 20 million tons of indica rice and 30 million tons of japonica rice.
Do a good job in people's livelihood "heart-warming things" and hold up the people's "great happiness".
Five departments have carried out special actions for children to participate in basic medical insurance.
On March 2, the National Health Insurance Administration, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and other five departments issued a notice to carry out a special action for children to participate in basic medical insurance, improve the level of children's insurance coverage, and strive to by the end of 2024, more than 80% of newborns will be insured in the year of birth.
Since the establishment of the medical insurance system for urban and rural residents in China, the number of children insured has increased steadily, and the number of insured children in 2023 will be 25.6 billion people. However, at the same time, there are also problems such as many procedures and long processes for newborns to participate in insurance, a small number of parents do not have a strong sense of participation in insurance, and the restrictions on household registration of permanent residents in individual cities have not been fully relaxed. The special action requires that on the premise of maintaining the relative stability of the children's insurance policy, focus on optimizing the insurance participation process for newborn children, simplify the insurance registration process, and improve services. The "Notice" clearly states that it is necessary to effectively increase the participation rate of children, and strive to ensure that by the end of 2024, more than 80% of newborns will be insured in the year of birth, and by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the participation rate of children will increase steadily.
*: CCTV.