Celebrity chimp in China eats noodles with chopsticks

An internet-famous chimpanzee in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has once again amazed tourists as it has acquired the new skill of eating noodles with chopsticks just like humans.

It is not the first time that the 23-year-old chimp named Yu Hui stunned the public.

The chimp was previously caught on camera sweeping, washing clothes with soap and brush, and cleaning plates.

The smart chimp has also acquired skills such as pushups, handstands, and backflips.

Living in a zoo in Chongqing's Yongchuan District, Yu Hui has unlocked many skills by imitating humans.

China will pursue greater high-quality cooperation with partner counties within the framework of the Belt and Road Imitative to deliver more benefits to the Global South and beyond, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday.

Lin made the remarks when elaborating on the progress of the BRI since its launch in 2013.

He said high-quality Belt and Road Initiative has achieved tangible and fruitful outcomes over the past year.

"China signed Belt and Road cooperation documents with countries including Egypt, Timor-Leste, Peru and Brazil, established the Secretariat of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and set up over 30 multilateral cooperation platforms in special areas of energy, taxation and disaster relief," said Lin. "In the first ten months of this year, trade in goods between China and partner countries reached 16.94 trillion yuan (more than 2.33 trillion U.S. dollars), up by 6.2 percent; and Chinese companies signed new project contracts worth over 1 trillion yuan (about 137.8 billion U.S. dollars) in partner countries, up by 17.1 percent. The China-Europe Trans-Caspian Express was officially launched, and the China-Europe Railway Express has run over 100,000 trips in total, shipping over 11 million containers of goods worth more than 420 billion U.S. dollars. More than 800,000 containers of goods were shipped this year through the new western land-sea corridor train service, which links 542 ports in 125 countries and regions around the world," said the spokesman.

He said China is ready to work with all sides to foster a better future for the world.

"The aim of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is to enable partner countries to realize and benefit from connectivity with the world and bring the hope of development and prosperity to the Global South. China stands ready to work with all parties to continue upholding the vision of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefit, advance both big infrastructure projects and small and smart projects, and emphasize both broad strokes and refined details, so as to build the BRI into a source of happiness that benefits the world and a dream maker that helps countries jointly realize modernization," said Lin.