Editor's note: Premier Li Keqiang opens the 2014 Summer Davos in Tianjin on Wednesday. More than 1,600 participants from 90 countries are expected to attend the three-day gathering that will focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, science and technology. Below four participants look at ways value can be created through innovation and the use of new technologies.
The threat of a world economic downturn is minimal, as Europe and the United States have entered a period of stable and strong economic recovery, said Tong Jiadong, vice-president of Tianjin-based Nankai University.
Tianjin, the largest coastal city in northern China, plans to develop itself into a modern service center and hopes to attract the world's business elite to locate in the city.
Tianjin Pharmaceutical Holdings Co Ltd, a State-owned pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution company, has set the goals of realizing revenue of 35 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) and a profit of 1.8 billion this year, said Lu Yanchang, general manager of the company.
Tianjin has improved its public transport system to accommodate large numbers of visitors and travelers to the city during the Summer Davos, a senior transport official of the city said.
China's sports minister has hailed the achievements of the mass fitness campaign, launched in 2008, and envisions a larger program to benefit more members of the general public in the next five-year plan.
Proof that children are becoming more involved in sport despite the academic burdens they face can be seen at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games.
When Jiang Shuai, a former women's international soccer player, watched children of her junior club practicing on the turf at the Workers' Stadium as part of the sixth National Fitness Day on Aug 8, she never expected a star's visit and his warm words.
Fresh-faced graduates aren't the only jobseekers who should be dusting off their CVs. Whether you've recently lost a job, are looking for promotion or a career change, you can improve your CV using the advice here.
Self-employment has been one of the strategies many people have adopted to stave off the United Kingdom's malaise known as austerity. Midlife men, facing redundancy, or boredom, or career crises, seem to be especially adept at coming up with job schemes that will permit them an opportunity for reinvention as well as financial survival in their coming pension-bereft later years.
This is not the first time that a hidden painting has been discovered beneath one of Picasso's works.
It is one of the world's finest art collections in private hands with paintings by van Gogh, Picasso and Rembrandt among others. It even contains a previously undiscovered version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, perhaps the most famous modern artwork ever created.
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