2025-08-15
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Examining the events that impact and shape China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour.
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Shane Begum with you on this Friday, August 15th, 2025.
You're listening to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program,
China's marking 20 years of its lucid waters and lush mountains green development.
Friday marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
The Russian president suggested Moscow could reach a nuclear arms control deal when he meets his U.S. counterpart in Alaska.
In business, China releases strong economic numbers for July.
And today began a six-part series called The Unyielding East,
China's World War II Relics,
bringing you stories about the nation that stood its ground against fascism.
We're now checking the day's top stories.
China is marking 20 years of its vision for green development.
Xi Jinping proposed that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets in 2005 when he served as secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The country has been making efforts to improve the quality of the environment.