The Great Hall of the People in Beijing used to hear loud applause for leaders announcing ambitious economic plans.
·Internet-based finance rose swiftly to prominence. E-commerce, logistics, express delivery services and other emerging businesses developed rapidly.
China will speed up its strategy for free trade zones, a key initiative in further opening up, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday as he joined a discussion with lawmakers from Shanghai, where the country's first such zone was established.
With an accommodating two-sessions blue, it's the perfect weather to talk about tourism.
Item from March 6, 1993, in China Daily: The "Queen of Diving", Gao Min, donated 66,666 yuan to the Beijing 2000 Olympic Games Bid Committee on Thursday to show her support for the city's effort to host the 2000 Olympiad. Wu Shaozu, China's sports minister and executive chairman of the committee, accepts Gao's gesture with glee. The figure"6" in Chinese means "smoothness" and "plain sailing".
Premier Li Keqiang said in his 2015 government report on Thursday that GDP is targeted to increase by about 7 percent, lower than last year's 7.5 percent, to help adapt to the new normal in economic growth.
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President Xi Jinping called for "firm opposition" to pro-independence forces in Taiwan on Wednesday, while stressing the peaceful development of cross-Straits ties.
Misunderstandings have arisen from US opposition to a Chinese draft law asking US corporations to disclose their security-related data, a spokeswoman for the annual session of China's top legislature said on Wednesday.
More than three decades of war have damaged Afghanistan's once-thriving carpet industry, but weavers are tapping into the bloody past to boost their fortunes with "war rugs" depicting guns, tanks and warplanes.
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