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Economists favor reducing GDP target to 6.5%

[2015-10-19 08:56]

A further cut in GDP growth is being advised by economists for China's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) to pave the way for more reforms and the switch to a consumption-driven economy.

'Golden' handshakes hard to ignore

[2015-10-19 08:56]

Last month George Osborne, the United Kingdom chancellor of the exchequer, was photographed gazing out of the window of a high-speed train, as it sat in a station in Northwest China.

This Day, That Year

[2015-10-19 08:56]

Item from Oct 19, 1983, in China Daily: Officers of the Chinese PLA Navy study a model of a submarine built by Italy when they visited the first international naval and electronic technology fair held in China. The fair, attended by some 80 foreign firms from France, Italy, Britain, Federal Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the US, lasted five days in Shanghai.

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[2015-10-19 08:56]

Many Chinese are split between British and US accents.

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Joint drills with ASEAN proposed

[2015-10-17 08:28]

Major initiative meant to help avoid potential miscalculations on the South China Sea ZHANG YUNBI

Xi: Poverty fight 'a common mission'

[2015-10-17 08:28]

The Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country's 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, while actively engaged in the global poverty alleviation plan, President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

On historic note, Cuban band performs at White House

[2015-10-17 08:28]

The groovy sounds of a Cuba-based musical group wafted through the White House on Thursday for the first time in more than 50 years.

Need seen as 'urgent' for boosting population

[2015-10-17 08:28]

While many Chinese expect that a universal two-child policy will come soon, some experts have called for more aggressive steps to address the nation's population challenges, which include a declining labor force and a rapidly aging population.

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