While facing the COVID-19 pandemic, China has become the only major economy globally to end up with positive GDP growth in 2020. This year marks the beginning of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) period, and the 14th FYP, as a key blueprint for China's economic and social development in the next five years, has drawn global attention.
Tanabe Hisato, who has worked in his bank in Guangdong before has returned as the General Manager of Guangzhou Branch of Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. this year. This is his second time to work in Guangzhou. Compared with his first visit to Guangzhou in 2008, he was shocked by the changes.
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 first hit China, and later become a global pandemic. The pandemic has changed everything completely. So is the situation for Aaron Finley, Associate Director of Deloitte China.
Hazza is a host of Guangdong Radio and Television. He has been in Guangdong for ten years. He returned to China when the outbreak was at its peak in China. And then he visited and reported on the process of resuming work and production in Chinese factories. “They were producing face masks because that's what the country needed. That's what everyone needed in China.”
Gamallat Yaser Mohammed Ebrahim comes from Yemen. Currently, he’s a post-doctoral research fellow in the field of molecular biology at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center.
Mahmoud Ali Ahmed AL-Azab comes from Yemen. He got his PhD from Dalian Medical University in immunology. Now, he’s doing his post-doctoral research at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center.
Mariana Ramos came from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. She has been working as a Portuguese teacher at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies since September, 2019.
Elina Idiiatullina is a post-doctoral researcher from Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center. During the pandemic, she encouraged and helped friends and relatives back home with her professional knowledge and experience in China.