"The Classic Quotes by Xi Jinping" starts airing in Hungary

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"The Classic Quotes by Xi Jinping" starts airing in Hungary

2024-05-09 19:41 Last Updated At：23:27

The Hungarian version of "The Classic Quotes by Xi Jinping," a multilingual TV program featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping's quotes from ancient Chinese classics in his speeches and articles, began airing on Hungarian media outlets on Wednesday.

A launch ceremony for the program, produced by China's flagship broadcaster China Media Group (CMG), was held in Budapest, capital of Hungary, on the same day when Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived for a state visit to the Central European country.

At the invitation of Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Xi is on a state visit to Hungary, the last leg of his current three-nation European tour, which has also taken him to France and Serbia.

Focusing on the themes including common prosperity and green development, the program vividly presents Xi's political wisdom and rich knowledge of history and traditional Chinese culture and showcases the cultural origins and fruitful results achieved from Chinese modernization.

The program and its promotional video have been aired by other media outlets across Europe and around the world, including the pan-European news channel Euronews and France's BFM Business.

Former Hungarian president Pal Schmitt attended the launch ceremony and congratulated the producer on the broadcasting of the program in the country.

Peter Medgyessy, former Hungarian prime minister, also delivered a congratulatory message via video.

They believe that through media communication, Hungary and China can enhance exchanges in experience of national governance and social development.

Shen Haixiong, president of CMG, and Daniel Papp, chief executive of Hungary's Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), announced the launch of the Hungarian version of the TV program at the launch ceremony.

In his speech, Shen said he believes that the premiere of the program in Hungary can open a window of thought for Hungarian people to understand Xi's wisdom in governance and understand Chinese culture, thereby helping them understand the unique charm of China in the new era.

Shen said CMG is willing to join those in Hungary to promote people-to-people exchanges and friendship between the two countries and promote cultural mutual learning so as to write a new chapter in China-Hungary friendly cooperative relations.

Asia's leading flower auction market blossoms over growing demand

2024-05-20 16:57 Last Updated At：17:07

云南昆明斗南被誉为“亚洲花都”，这里的鲜花产销两旺，每天都有上千个品种、数千万枝鲜花，通过竞拍、批发、零售等方式，走向全国各地的市场。 Asia's largest flower auction market, the Kunming International Flora Auction Trading Center in southwest China's Yunnan Province, is cashing in on fast-growing consumer demand of various fresh-cut flowers. 【正文】走进昆明国际花卉拍卖交易中心，数百名鲜花购买商正在激烈角逐，进行竞拍，在这里，平均不到4秒就会完成一次交易，靠的就是准头、拼的就是手速，但凡犹豫一点，就拍不到心仪的鲜切花。 At the auction center in Dounan, "the flower capital of Asia," a flower auctioning scene is busy with high tension and excitement. Buyers from all over the country are engaging in spirited bidding wars for their preferred flowers. In mere seconds, they can quickly decide whether they should bid for products based on information on the varieties, grades and prices displayed on a trading screen. And each bid has to be made in less than four seconds, said a flower buyer. 【同期】鲜花购买商记者：今天你要拍多少枝花？“How many flowers you wish to bid on today?" 大约的话要拍一万多枝。“About 10,000 stems of flowers would be needed (today). 记者：都是什么花？What kind of flowers are they? 我主要是做多头玫瑰。I mainly sell multi-headed roses,” "About 10,000 stems of flowers would be needed (today). I mainly sell multi-headed roses," he told a reporter.

自5月6日以来，昆明国际花卉拍卖交易中心，一直处于备货、供货的高峰期，这里的拍卖交易也从平时的每天下午一场，变成早、晚各一场。 To cope with the overwhelming demand amid peak season, a notable adjustment was made to the daily auction transactions at that venue from May 6, with transferring a single auction session in the afternoon to two sessions in morning and evening seperately. 【同期】鲜花购买商（第）一场的话因为太早，然后客户的那个订单量下得少，所以说我们就说先拍一部分放在那里，等（第）二场然后客户下单了，然后我们再缺什么补什么。 "As the first auction starts too early and customer orders are relatively small, we generally bid some of the products and store them. We will wait until customers place more orders during the second auction, and then we will replenish inventory based on their demand," the flower buyer added. 【正文】据昆明国际花卉拍卖交易中心最新数据显示，五月以来，昆明花拍中心日均供货量超过850万枝，整体较去年上涨约31%。 The latest data from the center reported that more than 8.5 million stems of flowers have been transacted on a daily basis since May, surging around 31 percent from the last year.