year 2023.
That is the lowest amount since the ministry started issuing such data in 1986.
The figure of marriages constituted fewer than half the 13 million seen to be registered last 2013.
In the meantime, the separation continued only to be slightly higher than the marriage rate with approximately 2.6 million couples filing divorce, an addition of 28,000 compared to previous year.
It is the third year that China is facing population shrinkage and despite the sporadic rise in the birth rate last year.
In 2024, there was a declining working age population (16+ to 59 years) of 6.83 million.
There were still more individuals aged above 60 and they comprised 22 percent of the population.
Space station of first deep-sea water
A deep-sea research facility can transform the marine exploration as approved in China.
The trading card, “The cold seep ecosystem research facility will be positioned 2000 meters (6560 feet) deep in the South china sea, which is of strategic importance.
The facility will rank amongst the highest form of scientific underwater facility, as it will be technologically advanced.
China will become the third nation in the world to construct and be in possession of a deep space space station after the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
The NR-1 was a Decommissioned nuclear-powered submarine built by Jacksonville, Florida USA and became the American deep-sea space station.
The Russian AS-12- Losharik submarine that operated on a nuclear reactor had descended to 2000 meters.
In 2019, the Russians abandoned it following the massive fire.
USA-Tobin Tax
The administration of Trump is also planning to implement Tobin Tax on capital movements that may interfere with the international financial markets.
The implementation of the Tobin concept of a 0.0005 percent charge on currency trade in an international market might generate the vast sums of money and probably would not dampen the trade and flows.
Tobin tax is a tax levied on foreign exchange with the intention of reducing short-term trading activities that are characterized with speculative profits.
James Tobin, a Nobel Prize winning economist proposed it in 1972 in reaction to the fluctuations of the currency markets since the break down of the bretton woods system.
The STT -Securities Transaction Tax of India - (2004) is a Tobin-like, tax on the stock market transaction.
Sudan virus outbreak
An outbreak of Sudan virus disease among the Ugandans was reported by the WHO and Ugandan