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| Thousands of Chinese have joined a heated discussion about new rules that are designed to curb corruption and increase transparency about the assets of government officials. |
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| There has been also foreign media reports that China will suspend approving IPOs after the dual-listing of the Agricultural Bank of China in order to prevent further decline in the stock market. |
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| Shanghai World ExpoPark sold a total of more than 57,000 tickets including 17,000 night tickets on July 12, and the cumulative number of visitors at the Shanghai World Expo has reached more than 26 million since the Expo Park opened on May 1, according to a report from Liberation Daily. |
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| China's meteorological authorities forecast Tuesday rainstorms to continue to batter flooded areas in central and eastern China near the Yangtze River over the next three days. |
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| The Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee and the State Council on July 10 released a package of 23 projects with a total planned investment of 682.2 billion yuan (or 100.62 billion US dollars), four times more than the previous investment announced a decade ago. |
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| A solution that satisfies all parties' concerns through dialogue and negotiation is the right course for the settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang early Thursday morning.The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany on Wednesday reiterated a call for "an early negotiated solution" to the Iranian nuclear issue. |
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| Chinese police will begin a special four-month campaign to crack down on the production and use of counterfeit automobile license plates on Thursday. |
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| The 11th Panchen Lama (C) is welcomed by Professor Ceyang (L) of Tibet University in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 9, 2010. The 11th Panchen Lama visited Tibet University and Tibet College of Tibetan Medicine in Lhasa on Wednesday. |
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| The comprehensive friendly and cooperative relationship between Uzbekistan and China is based on the principles of mutual respect, equality and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, Karimov noted. |
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| In Jiangxi Province, where mudslides recently derailed a train and flooding forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents, government departments and agencies were ordered to ramp up flood prevention measures. |
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| In a speech delivered at a plenary meeting of the CAS, Chen voiced firm opposition to the practice of academicians' holding too many posts and accepting inappropriate rewards. |
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| U.S. President Barack Obama (L) pauses while speaking about the BP oil spill during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington June 7, 2010. Beside Obama is Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. |
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| During the noon break, restaurants were crowded with the examinees and their parents and staff delivered boxed meals to volunteers and other staff at the exam sites. |
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| The decreasing birth rate and the rising popularity of overseas studies have combined to drag the number of candidates for this year's make-or-break college entrance exam below 10 million - for the first time since 2007. |
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| China is increasingly influential with its leadership speaking out on the world stage for its fiscal consolidation, Jim Flaherty, the minister of finance of Canada, said in Toronto Monday, after his trip to China and Republic of Korea. |
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| China's central authorities have set down a more open policy to attract top-notch foreign talents to help promote the economic and social development and global competitiveness of the nation. |
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| Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang(4th L back) addresses a meeting concerning reform on health care system in Beijing, capital of China, May 21, 2010.Li pledged to expand the coverage of basic health care services for a universal basic health care system, and to raise the reimbursement ratio of medical fees for patients. |
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| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on authorities to ensure earthquake survivors in Qinghai Province receive adequate food and financial assistance to maintain their livelihoods. |
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| Iran officially handed to the IAEA chief a letter on the nuclear fuel swap deal based on a joint declaration by Iran, Brazil and Turkey, the local satellite Press TV reported Sunday. |
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| Ten Chinese websites are to be listed in the domestic A-share stock market, according to media reports, with Shanghai-based eastday.com hoping to become the first to launch initial public offerings (IPO), analysts said. |
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| The company now has 2,200 employees and is the only one of its size. Most 3D companies are small studios and workshops with perhaps 30 people.On average, the cost of China's 3D design works is 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per second. A few clients provide a top budget of 7,000 to 8,000 yuan per second. |
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| It is a "meaningful opportunity" to strengthen the friendship between the two parties and the leaders of the two countries.The article also indicated that the DPRK will make efforts to further strengthen the traditional DPRK-China friendship. |
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| BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- China needs more reasonable carbon emission quotas to buoy the nation's fast economic development amid the progressing industrialization and urbanization, said an official with the nation's top economic planner Sunday. |
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| Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang delivers a speech on the opening ceremony of International Cooperative Conference on Green Economy and Climate Change in Beijing, capital of China, May 8, 2010. |
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| This undated image, obtained from orkut.com on May 4, 2010, shows Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who is suspected as the driver of a bomb-laden SUV into New York's Time Square on May 1. |
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| Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Taiwan dignitaries in Shanghai Thursday, who are here to attend the World Expo opening ceremony. |
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| Jiang said, China fully respected the choice made by the Sudanese people and congratulated al-Bashir and Kiir respectively on their victory in the elections.Around 16 million Sudanese cast their votes in the elections, put in place by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement inked between North and South Sudan in January 2005. |
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| Shanghai is to present a "quality" World Expo despite challenges posed by its unprecedented size and an expected record high number of visitors, said chief of the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE) on Wednesday. |
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| China's human resource official said Wednesday the country will step up efforts to improve social services for migrant rural workers in a report on protecting migrant rural workers' interests. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, April 28, 2010. |
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| BRUSSELS, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The ash cloud resulting from a volcanic eruption has caused economic damages of 1 billion euros ( 1.32 billion U.S.The video conference was designed for an exchange of views on the impact of the volcanic ash situation on the European tourism industry, in particular on the accommodation and the tour operators and travel agents sectors. |
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| After nearly eight years of preparation and six rounds of trial operation, Shanghai is ready for the 184-day World Exposition which opens May 1. |
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| Given the drastic growth in industrial and municipal water use, China's total water demand could reach 818 billion cu m by 2030, but the supply would stay at only 619 billion cu m, the report estimates. |
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| The website, www.court.gov.cn/zscq, run by The Supreme People's Court of China, is a platform for disseminating information relating to protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).¡¡¡¡Information such as judicial interpretations, court notices and decisions, surveys and research on IPR protection will be available on the website. |
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| Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, talks with local residents who have sufferd the earthquakes in quake-hit Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, on April 26, 2010. |
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| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday called for increased cooperation with Japan to seize opportunities and cope with challenges.Wen made the remarks in a congratulatory letter for a meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the China-Japan Forum on Exchange of Economic Knowledge. |
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| As the first World Expo ever hosted by a developing country, the Shanghai World Expowill open a new chapter in the history of such events, China's ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva said on Monday. |
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| Han said Shanghai will draw on Taipei's experience in city construction and management, and expressed hope the two cities will strengthen exchange and cooperation "in all aspects." |
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| BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday again called for more diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iran nuclear issue."We hope all the parties to further enhance diplomatic efforts on the Iran nuclear issue," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference. |
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| BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday again called for more diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iran nuclear issue."We hope all the parties to further enhance diplomatic efforts on the Iran nuclear issue," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference. |
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| BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China will introduce resource tax at a "proper" time to promote energy saving and environmental protection, the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday in a statement on its Website. |
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| Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a keynote speech at a conference, which is held to conclude a nationwide campaign of studying and implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, in Beijing, capital of China, April 6, 2010. |
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| Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged the state-run newspaper Farmers' Daily to make a greater contribution to the modernization drive of Chinese agriculture. |
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| Members of South Korean Navy's Ship Salvage Unit (front) on a rubber boat and a naval patrol ship patrol to rescue possible survivors from sunken naval ship Cheonan off Baengnyeongdo, an island near the border with North Korea, March 27, 2010. |
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| SIRTE, Libya, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Arab Leaders and representatives wrapped up the 22nd Arab League (AL) Summit here on Sunday, agreeing to adopt a final declaration on a series of key Arab issues. |
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| U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, March 28, 2010. Obama arrived unannounced in Afghanistan on Sunday, his first visit to the war zone as the U.S. President. |
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| About 55 percent of those polled said they wanted to let their parents take care of their children, compared with 36.2 percent of respondents who said they wanted to raise their children themselves. |
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| Pneumonia, birth asphyxia, and premature birth complications are the leading causes of death in children younger than 5, the researchers said in a paper published on Friday in the Lancet. |
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| SHIJIAZHUANG - Seven bodies were recovered after a cargo loaded with 3,000 tonnes of sand sank on the Bohai Sea off north China's Hebei Province Saturday, local authorities said.¡¡¡¡The vessel from the coastal city of Penglai in Shandong Province sank at about 5 am. |
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| BEIJING - The French Film Panorama is coming back to China in April with an extended program and the largest ever artist delegation.The 2009 drama about two brothers dealing with their "existential crisis" will be screened at a gala gathering to highlight the event on April 15 in Beijing. |
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| Soon after the accident happened, the Shanxi Provincial Work Safety Administration and the Shanxi Provincial Emergency Affairs Office said 152 people were trapped underground, but officials later changed the figure to 123. |
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| NANNING - While chasing a knife-wielding man, a policeman accidentally shot dead a spectator when firing a warning shot in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Saturday, local police authorities said. |
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| The statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry said they touched on regional and international issues of common concern during the talks, but it gave no further details on those issues. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday called upon the international community to render more support and provide more assistance to Afghanistan, and voiced its support for a leading coordination role by the United Nations in the reconstruction of the south Asian country. |
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| Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Thursday said the U.S.- China relationship is mature and stable enough to weather differences between the two countries.Huntsman said he was confident the two countries would work through their differences through dialogue, and they would be able to get on with the global challenges. |
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| Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), meets with a Taiwan delegation headed by Yao Eng-chi(L) in Beijing, March 18, 2010. |
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| After holding crunch talks to help seal a new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) here on Thursday, top diplomats of Russia and the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. |
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| President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the Hire Act, a bill that aims at spurring job growth and strengthening the private sector by encouraging businesses to hire new workers and invest in their companies and communities. |
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| "I think China has been extraordinarily self-disciplined, self-restrained and cautious about the way it conducted itself, especially since the late 1970s, the beginning of the reform period," he said. |
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| BEIJING -- Zhang Jianwei, a 22-year-old hairdresser in Beijing, has never been inside the Great Hall of the People and takes little interest in TV news or newspapers. |
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| XI'AN -- The governments of Xi'an and Xianyang, two major cities in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have been fined a total of 500,000 yuan ($73,530) for polluting a tributary of the Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, the local environment watchdog said Thursday. |
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| Beijing: Legislators plan to revise the Budget Law this August to give taxpayers more information about how their money is spent.Gao said one of the key tasks for future budget work is to make the budgets more detailed and make them public to let the people know where their money goes. |
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| troops and 8,000 reinforcement personnel will be participating in the joint drill for the Key Resolve exercise, and some 20,000 South Korean troops will be involved in the Foal Eagle. |
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| BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- China will adjust its monetary policy in accordance with changes of economic indicators and feedbacks from policy implementation, said central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan Saturday. |
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| "One of my key tasks is to make sure that relations between Ukraine and Russia take a U-turn in the right direction," he said.Yanukovych said after the talks that both countries would soon find a solution to Russian Black Sea Fleet problem as a lease agreement on the Ukrainian Sevastopol naval base expires in 2017. |
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| United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Chile's President Michelle Bachelet attend a news conference in Santiago, capital of Chile, March 5, 2010. Ban Ki-moon on Friday pledged 10 million dolllars aid from the Central Emergency Fund of the United Nations to the quake-hit Chile. |
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| "The top priority is balancing stable and comparatively fast economic growth with the adjustment of the economic structure and the transformation of the development pattern, while keeping inflation in check," Wen said. |
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| As communication between leaders and netizens increases, the Internet is providing an easier and faster way for people to express their emotions and offer their opinions to the country's top leaders. |
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| WASHINGTON: China remains the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities as at the end of December, the US media reported on Saturday.China defended its move to reduce its holdings of US Treasury securities, saying the United States should take steps to promote confidence in US dollar . |
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| Pupils attend classes at Shuicheyuan Primary School in Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China¡¯s Guansu province, last Thursday when schools in the city opened.[Pei Qiang/For China Daily] |
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| A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death toll on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting. |
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| "Although this is a very rare case, it had negative effects on inter-country adoptions in China and is against the healthy development of inter-country adoption," the CCAA said in a statement. |
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| At least 11 million people are short of drinking water because of a drought that has hit 15 provinces and autonomous regions, with the weather not expected to improve anytime soon, officials and meteorologists have said. |
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| The Defense Ministry Thursday warned that Japan's recent move to play up China's military threat and hints at strengthening the Japan-US alliance to counteract China's growing power will result in a deterioration in Beijing's trust in Tokyo. |
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| The trains served with an average daily transport capacity of 5.57 million people, an increase of 430,000 people compared with the same period last year, according to the ministry. |
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| The railway station of Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China, was expected to see 34,000 passengers leaving for other regions on Friday.The country's railways served about 5.44 million passengers nationwide on Thursday, an increase of 12.5 percent over the comparable day last year, according to the Ministry of Railways (MOR) on Friday. |
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| 19 (Xinhua) -- Rice prices in the global market for 2010 are likely to increase due mainly to lower crop production resulting from natural disasters, said Vichak Visetnoi, Director-General of the Department of Foreign Trade (DFT), a state- owned media reported Friday. |
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| A group of soldiers, self-claimed the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (CSRD), on Thursday launched a coup in the Nigerien capital Niamey, seizing the president, suspending the constitution and dissolving the government. |
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| The cafeteria was closed at around 14:30 EST, and cafeteria staff members, some in white working uniform, were seen standing in the south lobby which is close to the entrance to the cafeteria. |
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| China and Japan are busy negotiating a new draft food safety agreement, which may allow Japanese officials to enter Chinese factories for safety inspections.A spokesman from the Japanese Embassy in Beijing told China Daily that the toxic dumpling incident is one of the reasons that the two sides are working on a food-safety agreement. |
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| The top health authority has launched a nationwide mental health program, requesting each province to set up at least one psychological counseling hotline by the end of the year, according to a notice from the Ministry of Health yesterday. |
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| The US is as dependent on China for its economic and military health and economic growth as China is dependent on the US for its key markets, reserve finance, and global capitalist trading regime. |
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| Latest signals from the Democratic People' Republic of Korea (DPRK) and diplomatic efforts are pointing to a reopening of stalled Six-Party Talks over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, analysts have said. |
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| Last month, China's customs reported that total 2009 exports were more than $1.2 trillion, well ahead of the 803.2 billion euro ($1.1 trillion) that Germany reported Tuesday. |
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| Price negotiation and pipe construction for Russian natural gas supplies to China need more time before mega projects can be started, Russia's trade representative in China Sergey Tsyplakov said yesterday. |
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| Stressing that China is committed to a path of peaceful development, Yang said that a more developed China is an opportunity rather than a threat to the world."¡¡¡¡"We must respect the values and independent choice of the development path of other countries, respect other countries' core concerns and refrain from interfering in their internal affairs. |
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| TAIPEI: An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted the sea off the east coast of Taiwan's Hualien County on 14:10 Sunday afternoon, local meteorological authorities said. |
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| A top Chinese think tank forecasted the nation's economy would experience a mild rebound this year, with gross domestic product expanding around 10 percent year on year. |
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| More than 170 tons of milk powder have been recalled amid a 10-day nationwide crackdown on melamine-tainted dairy products, authorities have said.However, the Ningxia Panda Dairy Co Ltd was shut down because it was related to the Shanghai Panda Dairy Co Ltd, a company that was earlier closed for selling tainted milk last year. |
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| Experts warn that the high number of victims reflects serious flaws in the monitoring of occupational safety across China, and have accused local labor and health authorities of failing to protect workers. |
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| Similarly, a government-funded scheme will be initiated to expand sales of building materials in the rural areas and encourage more farmers to build better housing, it said. |
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| Mobile phone users in China will need to limit the number of Chinese New Year text messages they send during Spring Festival as part of a crackdown on spam messages.Official figures show Chinese mobile phone users sent 18 billion text messages during last year's 7-day Spring Festival holiday, and the figure is expected to increase this year. |
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| Though China is very likely to replace Japan as the second largest economic powerhouse this year after the Unites States, the country's economy cannot rival Japan's in per capita GDP (gross domestic product), a fact that the Chinese should be soberly aware of.Critics have called on the Japanese government to reshuffle relations with the US and China to prepare for China's rise. |
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