Hosting soccer's World Cup on home soil has long been a dream not only for Chinese fans, but also top leaders.
Whether the request was for a treadmill on Air Force One, an elliptical trainer by the White House pool, or a rower next to the Lincoln bedroom, when the Oval Office called, fitness trainer Ted Vickey answered.
President Xi Jinping called on Tuesday for the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to be sped up and for "concrete investment plans" under China's $40 billion Silk Road Fund.
It was an excellent score sheet, with straights A's in all major subjects, but notable room for improvement in others. That is the annual report card given by top foreign experts gathered for a pre-Lunar New Year meeting and dinner with Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People.
Item from Feb 11, 1998, in China Daily: The latest statistics suggest the number of mobile phone subscribers in the Chinese capital had reached 700,000 by the end of January.
Budgets for Spring Festival celebrations nation-wide have been cut amid growing security concerns and the crackdown on corruption.
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Pledging stepped-up measures to benefit talented foreigners on Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang made no secret of China's desire to draw more talent from overseas as the nation deepens its reform and opening-up.
"China is on a march to a higher-income, highly productive, highly innovative economy and society. ... Based on my studies of numerous cases of the middle-income transition, I think it's fair to say that a 6 to 7 percent sustained transition through the middle income would be a new normal success."
The country's eight non-Communist parties will play a bigger role in decision-making and the creation of important policies, and their views will be solicited on key government posts, according to a new set of guidelines issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
The prospect of President Xi Jinping visiting Washington later this year is a positive one for the White House.
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