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On January 25th, Liu Juncai, a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, revealed in an interview that Beijing has implemented 67 measures to support childbirth, distributing 947 million yuan in childcare subsidies last year. When discussing the progress of Beijings efforts to alleviate the burden on medical resources, Liu Juncai stated that by 2025, three projects, including the second phase of Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital, will be operational; three projects, including the Tongzhou branch of the Beijing Childrens Hospital, will be accelerated; and six projects, including the Fangshan branch of Xuanwu Hospital, will commence construction. The departmental setup of Xiongan Xuanwu Hospital will be fully implemented, and the first phase of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital National Medical Center (Xiongan branch) will commence construction. This year, we will coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive package of childbirth support policies, including childcare subsidies, maternity insurance, and maternity leave, while also cooperating with the Municipal Education Commission to study relaxing the standards for inclusive childcare fees and optimizing subsidy policies.U.S. Department of Energy: Issued an emergency directive to alleviate power outages in the Mid-Atlantic region during winter storm Finn.January 25th - A reporter asked: We noticed that the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Healthy and Sustainable Development of Intercity Railways." Could you please introduce the background of this document? Spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission: In recent years, the country has coordinated the planning and construction of intercity railways, actively building "city clusters on rails" in some key areas, effectively supporting the in-depth implementation of major regional strategies and the new urbanization strategy. Currently, the backbone network of intercity railways in the "four major city clusters" of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle is rapidly taking shape, with a total mileage of nearly 1,800 kilometers. Operational efficiency is steadily improving, and major cities within the city clusters can now generally be reached within 1 to 2 hours. This has played an important role in facilitating peoples travel, improving the comprehensive carrying capacity of city clusters, and promoting coordinated regional development. Overall, the development of intercity railways has achieved positive results and played a vital role in supporting the development of city clusters and metropolitan areas.January 25th - The Fourth Session of the 16th Beijing Municipal Peoples Congress convened. The meeting revealed that Beijing has over 1.3 million new energy vehicles, with over 80% of them meeting or exceeding the "National V" emission standard. Data shows that by 2025, Beijing will implement a policy to scrap and replace old freight vehicles and large and medium-sized buses with emission standards of National IV and below, leading to the elimination of over 10,000 old freight vehicles; 500 new energy buses have been registered; and all newly added and updated taxis, light postal vehicles, and sanitation vehicles are new energy vehicles. Beijing has already built 1,044 electric vehicle supercharging stations and added 11,263 charging interfaces.January 25th – The first meeting of the third council of the China Brand Building Promotion Association was held in Beijing on January 25th. The meeting pointed out that brand building is an important component of enhancing enterprises core competitiveness, a crucial measure for cultivating and strengthening new drivers of economic development, and an inherent requirement for meeting the peoples needs for a better life. The China Brand Building Promotion Association must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and its subsequent plenary sessions, implement General Secretary Xi Jinpings important instructions on brand building, and follow the deployment of the Party Group of the State Administration of Radio and Television. It must deeply implement the brand development strategy, strengthen special research and experience exchange on brand building, strengthen brand theory research and talent cultivation, strengthen brand evaluation and standard construction, strengthen brand promotion and international cooperation, create a favorable environment for brand development, continuously enhance brand competitiveness, influence, and internationalization, promote my countrys brand building cause to a new level, and make new contributions to promoting high-quality economic development.
