In today’s podcast:

At the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday called for the full leveraging of the strategic significance and political impact of "big BRICS," transforming the group into a new type of multilateral cooperation mechanism that is based on emerging markets and developing countries, globally oriented, open and inclusive. 

China witnessed a sustained tourism boom during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, with robust growth in spending and travel, adding to a growing list of indicators pointing to the continuous recovery of the Chinese economy. 

In an interview with the Global Times, Aleksey Chekunkov, Minister of the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic, called the West’s smears on China-Russia cooperation in the Arctic region “a myopic and unwise move.”

China has valuable domestic experience in conserving biodiversity, which can be learned from and shared with other countries to further global environmental initiatives, says Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, in a recent interview with the Global Times and other Chinese media outlets.

The topic "Post-1990 founder brings Chinese tea to the world" began trending on social media recently after the founder of a new Chinese-style tea brand made headlines with his innovative ways of promoting Chinese tea culture to the global stage.