China launched the Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft on Tuesday to deliver supplies to its space station, which is scheduled to wrap up construction this year. The Long March-7 Y5 rocket carrying Tianzhou-4, blasted off at 1:56 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency. After around 10 minutes, Tianzhou-4 separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit. At 2:23 a.m., the solar panels of the cargo craft unfolded and began working. Tianzhou-4 successfully docked with the combined space station core module Tianhe and the Tianzhou-3 cargo craft later on Tuesday.

China’s total import and export value amounted to 12.58 trillion yuan in the first four months of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 7.9 percent, official data showed Monday.
Exports grew 10.3 percent year-on-year to 6.97 trillion yuan, while imports expanded 5 percent to 5.61 trillion yuan in the first four months according to the General Administration of Customs.

The number of foreign trade enterprises with actual performance increased 4.7 percent year-on-year, said Li Kuiwen, director of the Department of Statistics and Analysis at the GAC.

China’s foreign trade structure continued to be optimized in the first four months, with general trade imports and exports reaching 8.01 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.2 percent year-on-year.

China will have 5.5 million nurses by 2025 according to a new plan released by the National Health Commission. There will be an average of 3.8 registered nurses for every 1,000 people by 2025.

At the end of 2020, the number of registered nurses in China was over 4.7 million, up 45 percent from 2015.
Over 70 percent of the country’s nurses have a junior college degree or above.

The plan stated the improvement of nursing is of great significance to improving people’s health and actively responding to the aging of the population.

China has recorded a high coastal sea level over the past 10 years, reaching a peak in 2021 according to a report by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Over the past year the sea level has been 84 millimeters higher than it was between 1993 and 2011.
The rising sea level is largely due to global warming, which has led to the expansion of seawater and the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps.

In China, land subsidence also contributes to a relative rise in sea level.

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