Temple restored; VR boom; tax relief; migration corridors: China Quick Take - CGTN

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Six stories from China this week.

Wanshou Temple successful Beijing has reopened pursuing a five-year restoration project.

The royal Temple was built for the Empress Dowager Cixing of Wanli during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Later, done the Ming and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the temple was renovated and expanded, forming a ample past architectural analyzable that integrates a temple, a plot and a royal palace. Some of the trees successful the plot are much than 400 years old.

The temple is astir 450 years aged /CFP

Migration protection

A migration extortion web strategy crossed China volition support up to 50 cardinal birds of 36 species.

The Institute of Forest and Grassland Survey and Planning nether the country's National Forestry and Grassland Administration took the pb successful organizing the strategy during the ongoing 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention connected Wetlands (COP14).

VR boom

China's virtual world (VR) manufacture attracted beardown concern and financing past twelvemonth arsenic marketplace players raced to pat the burgeoning high-tech sector.

The standard of concern and financing successful VR much than doubled successful 2021, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Currently, determination are implicit 10,000 VR-related firms successful China, pushing the technology's applications into assorted scenarios successful industry, culture, and education, among others.

Tax breaks

China's taxation refunds, arsenic good arsenic taxation and interest cuts and deferrals, topped 3.7 trillion yuan (about $525.8 billion) successful the twelvemonth done November 10, arsenic the state continued efforts to trim the load connected enterprises.

Among the total, value-added taxation recognition refunds reached astir 2.31 trillion yuan, much than 3.5 times the yearly magnitude of past year, Wang Daoshu, lawman caput of the State Taxation Administration, told a property conference.

Preferential taxation and interest simplification policies saved taxpayers 789.6 cardinal yuan successful this period, portion deferred payments of taxes and fees came successful astatine 679.7 cardinal yuan, according to Wang.

Satellite network

A rocket made by Beijing-based aerospace institution Galactic Energy has go the archetypal commercialized rocket successful China to deploy a constellation outer network.

The rocket, CERES-1 Y4 lifted disconnected from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center successful northwest China and sent 5 tiny satellites into sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).

The satellites are portion of the Jilin-1 Gaofen outer series. Gaofen is an abbreviation for "high resolution" successful Chinese. The bid is expected to person 138 satellites by 2025 and go the largest commercialized reflection constellation successful China.

Snow fall

Many parts of cardinal and eastbound China welcomed snowfall portion immoderate areas successful northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang experienced snowstorms.

Though the upwind caused immoderate inevitable disruption, it besides created beauteous scenes successful wood parks.

Houses successful Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang /CFP