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Central China’s Henan province will become the nation’s first province with a population of 100 million people.
Wu Poh-hsiung, honorary chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) is to meet Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday in Beijing, and have a discussion about the newly signed cross-Strait trade pact.
Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung said on Saturday that he believed the historical cross-Straits trade pact, signed in late June, will soon pass the legal procedures in the island.
A total of 3,514 people died and 486 were reported missing in natural disasters including floods, drought, cold, landslides and earthquakes in the first half of this year, Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday citing sources from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
China's Blue Ocean Network (BON), a non-state English-language TV network which provides China-focused programs to overseas audiences, aims to promote China's soft power as well as cash in on the increasing need of commercial and cultural exchanges between China and the outside world.
Chinese steel mills are cutting their output to reduce losses as the country's steel inventory reached a historic high and domestic steel prices continued to drop for more than ten weeks in a row, the Economic Information Daily reported Friday.
The public security bureau of Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, halted the practice of installing police officers as vice-presidents of 27 local hospitals on July 5, three days after the decision was made, Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Chinese stocks related to aerospace and military industries rallied strongly on Friday after reports that the Chinese government has put the opening of tightly controlled low-altitude airspace on its agenda.
Sinopec and two other energy conglomerates, the State Grid and China National Petroleum, made it to the top 10 of this year's Fortune 500 list. Sinopec is China's largest refiner.
Several banks in Shanghai have resumed lending to third-time homebuyers and loosened criteria on identifying second-time housing purchases amid a sluggish housing market, the local newspaper Oriental Morning Post reported.
McDonald's China said Thursday that the company is "actively cooperating" with China's food safety authorities in an investigation of its Chicken McNuggets for possible harmful additives, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.
China Foundation Center (www.foundationcenter.org.cn/), a database offering comprehensive information about China's charity foundations, had its launching ceremony in Beijing on Thursday as financial transparency becomes a major concern of contributors in China.
