China called for a comprehensive implementation of the ceasefire deal at the Gaza Strip and urged swift progress on the second phase of negotiations at a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Tuesday.
Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, voiced deep concern over the immense humanitarian crisis caused by 15 months of conflict in Gaza.
He called for the immediate release of all hostages and stressed the need to ensure that the 2 million surviving residents in Gaza are not trapped in further violence.
Fu underscored that the ceasefire agreement must be fully upheld to achieve lasting peace.
"Violations of the ceasefire agreement have occurred frequently in recent days. We are gravely concerned and strongly urge all parties to fully implement the ceasefire agreement. Particularly in ensuring humanitarian aid access and the release of hostages, the terms of the ceasefire must be strictly honored with sincerity and seriousness. The international community should encourage and support parties concerned to speed up negotiations. In particular, countries with significant influence over the parties involved, should play their role to this end," he said.
Fu also expressed concern over Israel's large-scale military operations in the West Bank, which have continued for over a month.
He noted that this has led to the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1967.
Warning against further escalation, Fu criticized Israel's plan to maintain a long-term military presence in the West Bank and urged an immediate halt to military actions, settlement expansion and settler violence to prevent further deterioration of the situation.
Emphasizing that the root cause of the prolonged crisis is the failure to implement the two-state solution, Fu called for Gaza's post-war governance to be led by Palestinians.
He urged the international community to support Gaza's reconstruction and safeguard the irreplaceable role of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in humanitarian aid and rebuilding efforts.
China, he affirmed, will continue working with the international community to seek a comprehensive, just and lasting resolution to the Palestinian issue and broader Middle East peace.
China urges full implementation of ceasefire deal in Gaza
China urges full implementation of ceasefire deal in Gaza
China urges full implementation of ceasefire deal in Gaza
More than 770 high-tech companies have packed into 33 themed buildings at China's Xiong'an New Area, turning floor proximity into business partnerships in a government-engineered experiment to build innovation clusters outside the capital Beijing.
On April 1, 2017, China announced plans to establish the Xiong'an New Area, located about 100 kilometers southwest of Beijing. The aim was to build a green city on an area of 1,770 square kilometers, featuring innovation and providing a national model of high-quality development.
Over the past nine years, facilities such as the Zhongguancun Science Park have begun high-quality operations in Xiong'an. In the Zhongguancun Science Park's low-altitude economy building, Zhu Xu, co-founder of a Beijing drone company, dropped in on a company located one floor below his to explore collaboration opportunities.
As the building houses numerous upstream and downstream enterprises in the low-altitude economy industry, with potential partners just a floor or two away, Zhu frequently receives invitations to matchmaking events where participants analyze the market and discuss technologies together.
"(The Zhongguancun Science Park) organizes matchmaking events on a regular basis. At one such session, we learned about a company on the 7th floor that share some technical similarities with us. We spoke with them promptly, and now we are gradually carrying out research and development and cooperation together," said Zhu.
Zhu's company moved to Xiong'an in Oct 2025. Shortly after relocating, Zhu began joint research and development with the company on the 7th floor. Together, they have upgraded drones to support remote intelligent ground operation, quickly developing a mature autonomous drone operation system.
"We open up real-world application scenarios to enterprises. Through various activities, companies link up naturally, and collaborations within the building have happened effortlessly," said Li Yue, deputy head of the Industry, Information Technology and Data Bureau of the Xiong'an New Area.
Zhu is among many people who pursue a career and a life in the Xiong'an New Area, which has been transformed from a stretch of raw land to a mapped plan, and then to a city -- a modern new town springing up in a matter of nine years.
In the process of relieving Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as China's capital, renowned universities and research institutes, major state-owned companies as well as start-ups are relocated to this vibrant area.
So far, more than 4,000 Beijing-origin companies have been relocated to Xiong'an, and more than 400 centrally administrated state-owned enterprises have set branches in the city.
Construction is rapidly ongoing on the campus buildings of four universities in the Xiong'an New Area -- Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University and China University of Geosciences.
In less than a decade, Xiong'an has adhered to high standards of planning and design, adopting a "moving in after infrastructure is in place" approach, ensuring that networks of water, electricity, gas, roads and bridges are established first.
Dubbed the "city of the future", Xiong'an is undergoing rapid changes. The developed area spans around 215 square kilometers with total investment exceeding one trillion yuan (about 145 billion U.S. dollars) and over 5,300 buildings shaping the urban skyline, housing 1.41 million residents and 669 high-tech enterprises.
Meanwhile, Xiong'an is becoming greener and more biodiverse. Since 2017, a total of 32,200 hectares of new afforested land has emerged in Xiong'an, bringing the total green area to nearly 50,000 hectares. The forest coverage rate has risen from 11 percent to 35.1 percent, according to official data.
China's Xiong'an New Area clusters tech firms in themed towers, spurring vertical supply chains
