CGTN: China's Q4 growth hits pre-virus rate of 6.5%, driving annual GDP to over 100t yuan China on Monday reported a gross domestic product (GDP) increase of 6.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the country's full-year expansion to 2.3 percent. Despite the grave and complex environment posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, China managed to bring its economic growth back to a pre-pandemic rate. Its full-year GDP exceeded 100 trillion yuan ($15.45 trillion) for the first time, China...

Running along the eastern edge of Turkmenistan is the south-western ridge of the Gissar Range of the Pamir-Alay mountain system, named Kugitang since the dawn of time. Another name, Koytendag, means “impassable mountains”. The western slopes of the Range are truly impassable. They are jagged with numerous gorges reminiscent of canyons with several-hundred-meter-high precipices. The region is one of the richest in Turkmenistan in natural and mineral resources. It boasts large deposits of rock...

On January 21, a video-conference meeting was held between oil and gas industry representatives of Turkmenistan and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Turkmenistan was represented by executives and representatives of Turkmennebit, Turkmengaz, and Turkmenhimiya State Concerns. Senior officials and staff of the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and a number of leading oil and gas corporations of Egypt were among those who participated in the meeting from the Egyptian side. In the course o...

On January 21, the 9th Turkmen-German Health Forum kicked off at the International Research and Training Center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry in an online telebridge format. Initiated by the nation’s leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the forum seeks to deepen the successful partnership between Turkmen and German healthcare professionals, and to develop joint projects aimed at modernizing the healthcare system of Turkmenistan, taking advantage of advanced technologies and up-t...

Altyn Sähra, a bread-making enterprise of the Marygallaönümleri Production Association, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection of Turkmenistan, is successfully tackling the tasks set by the President of Turkmenistan to provide the population with food products. Fitted with foreign-made high-duty equipment, the enterprise operates four production shifts. Owing to the improvement and optimization of every stage of the production process, it has seen a steady increase in output. In...

The Museum of Fine Arts hosts the exhibition of works by Turkmen artists dedicated to the motto of 2021 "Turkmenistan - Homeland of Peace and Trust". The exhibition showcases paintings, as well as ceramic, jewelry and design works from the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan. Among the exhibited works, the painting by Shemshat Mammedova "Spring open spaces" attracts with the freshness of the colors. The blooming foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains, where Ahalteke horses romp about – one of the f...

On the 20th of January 2021, a two-day visit to Turkmenistan of a representative Azerbaijani delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov has started.  Today,on the 21st of January, the head of the MFA of Azerbaijan was received by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Then, the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Az...