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China launches consumption promotion campaign for Greater Bay Area

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China launches consumption promotion campaign for Greater Bay Area

2025-05-24 22:24 Last Updated At:22:37

China launched on Saturday a consumption promotion campaign for its vigorously developing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city cluster in south China.

The campaign, launched in Guangzhou City of Guangdong Province, was jointly initiated by China's Ministry of Commerce, the China Media Group (CMG), and the Guangdong provincial government. Along with the campaign, the CMG also launched a media campaign to promote domestic sale of high-quality export-oriented products.

In its efforts to carry out the campaign, the CMG will fully leverage the advantages of its powerful integrated communication platforms and media resources both at home and abroad to integrate the roles of high-quality resources to stimulate consumption enthusiasm in the Greater Bay Area, with the focus on boosting domestic consumption, the dragon boat economy, the silver economy and other contents concerned.

Several facilitation measures for boosting domestic consumption were rolled out at the event, which is expected to inject new vigor and vitality into in-depth integration of consumption and local industries, and into the economic development of the Greater Bay Area -- a megalopolis comprising the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao as well as nine cities in the neighboring Guangdong Province.

China launches consumption promotion campaign for Greater Bay Area

China launches consumption promotion campaign for Greater Bay Area

China's second domestically built large cruise ship, the Adora Flora City, will carry out the lifeboat release test on Tuesday, according to the shipbuilder, China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).

The large cruise ship is scheduled to undock on March 20 for the next test phase of dockside mooring, and sea trials are planned in late May, said the shipbuilder.

The primary objective of a lifeboat release test aims to verify the seamless release of the lifeboats from the vessel.

Following the release, a maneuvering trial will also be carried out to assess the lifeboats' operational performance and confirm it meets all required safety standards.

With a gross tonnage of 141,900 tonnes, the cruise ship represents a further step forward in China's large cruise ship construction capability.

Compared with the country's first domestically built large cruise ship, the Adora Magic City, the new vessel features a series of design and construction upgrades.

According to the shipbuilder, the ship is 17.4 meters longer, offers expanded public areas and enhanced onboard comfort.

The Adora Flora City is expected to be delivered by the end of 2026.

China's second homegrown large cruise ship to conduct lifeboat release test

China's second homegrown large cruise ship to conduct lifeboat release test

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