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The China Bee Products Association has estimated that bee pollination services contribute more than 300 billion yuan to China's agricultural and forestry production every year, as reported by Xinhua last year.

And this creates just another business opportunity for beekeepers, too.

They do not always have to make their money by selling honey.

Still others lack the skills to act effectively." Other speakers placed a heavy emphasis on the importance of strong, unified party governance and the announcement of new disciplinary measures to tighten Xi's control even further.

And in an unusual departure from his typical way of doing business, she even allowed the release of an explicitly self-critiquing official communique to be published by the state outlet Xinhua.

Even compared to the usual, this particular statement was especially over the top with its CCP speak, so let's quote directly.

It was unanimously agreed that the Central Committee, with comrade Xi Jinping at its core, demonstrated tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility in confronting the grave situation marked by weak, hollow and watered-down Party leadership, lax, superficial and ineffective self-supervision and self-governance, as well as some startling problems within the Party." Before we change course and discuss what all of this means, we'd like to pause this episode to tell you all about our premium subscriber site.

The crew's three, with two landing, and a rover goes on the first landing.

And the tests so far? According to Xinhua, Mengzhou has completed a zero-height abort test and a maximum dynamic pressure escape test.

Lanyue has completed a landing and takeoff test, and there's been a low-altitude demonstration flight of the Long March 10.

Huang also said everything planned for the moon will first be tested in near-Earth orbit, and every crewed mission will be validated by uncrewed tests first.

And so I think China cares about using this plenum to put out the word that people can learn from the idea of having a leader who can create a sense of direction, who is firewalled, according to their language, from questions of popularity, and that having a party that can keep politics in-house and manage them in-house without politics slipping out of control and allowing special interests to dominate, like in his mind is happening in Western noble democracies, that is i think something to keep an eye on right and so xi jinping doesn't like the idea of a contest between authoritarians and democracies uh he uh his message is that every country gets to walk its own path which of course raises questions about just how much of the chinese model can be copied but in a world where democracy is criticized from lots of different areas I think that the fact that there is a market for this kind of message, and it's a profoundly authoritarian one, is something that should catch people's attention.

There was actually a long article that Xinhua, the state news agency, published just before the plenum about how Xi Jinping's self-revolution agenda was kind of a great example for political parties around the world to follow.

So we haven't seen Xi exporting revolution yet like Mao did, but I think that Joe is absolutely right.

This is a really interesting watch point.

The adjustment highlights China's delicate balancing act between currency stability, export competitiveness and the wider international financial system.

For further information, see Xinhua, South China Morning Post and Reuters.

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