Strengthening the management of overseas non-governmental organizations' activities according to China's rules and regulations, and expediting the process of enacting laws are part of the country's efforts to promote the rule of law.
Education emerged as a significant livelihood issue during the meetings of provincial people's congresses and political consultative conferences before the ongoing annual sessions of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, the country's top advisory body.
This year is the first of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period. It also signals the decisive step toward building a moderately well-off society, which is important for the whole of China, including Hong Kong. Hong Kong's development is closely related to that of the rest of the country, hence it should position itself well and set its own goals within the national development strategy.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said at a seminar in Tokyo on March 7 that negative interest rates would have a "very powerful" stimulus effect on the economy by driving down borrowing costs and nudging firms into boosting investment.
Top officials at China General Nuclear Power Group are in discussion with their counterparts at French power company Electricite de France, on the necessary terms to finance their joint nuclear power project at Hinkley Point in the United Kingdom.
WeChat, which connects more than half a billion individual users via the mobile messaging service, is launching a separate application for enterprise clients.
Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, is encouraging the creation of coordination mechanisms to help industrial enterprises and financial institutions exchange financing information.
Internet game developer Beijing Kunlun Tech Co said on Thursday its Hong Kong subsidiary has set up an artificial intelligence venture in the United States.
David Harsanyi, senior editor of the US Web magazine The Federalist could not be more correct in observing: "Perception is everything in politics. And we believe a lot of ridiculous things."
In a report published on Tuesday, the credit rating agency Moody's said "contradictions" exist among China's goals of maintaining a reasonably high economic growth rate, reforming its economic structure, and ensuring financial, economic and social stability, and it predicted that at least one of these goals will end in failure.
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