2025-08-06
59 分钟Examining the events that impact and shape China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour, one hour of news and information brought to you every weekday.
Now here's your host.
Shane Bigel with you on this Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
You're listening to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program,
a UN official says Gaza will need aid deliveries in huge numbers for months or even years to come.
A report from Shizhong notes environmental improvements in the ecologically sensitive region in southwest China.
Many European officials say the EU's trade deal with the US gives them no reason for celebration.
In business, China's guidelines for supporting new industrialization.
In sports, China names its flag bearers for the World Games in Chengdu.
In culture and entertainment, an exhibition featuring art masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.
Now checking the day's top stories.
A UN spokesperson says a huge number of aid trucks must enter Gaza daily for months or years to ease severe shortages.
Jens Larke from the UN Humanitarian Office warned that current aid is far too little to meet desperate need as people starve daily.
The needs inside Gaza is such that there should be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and more hundreds of trucks.
Not only every day, not only every week, but for months, possibly years to come.
This has been building up.
We are now at the brink of famine, as you know.
That is not something that happens overnight.