One of New Zealand's largest producers of kiwifruit is considering the possibility of growing its variety of the fruit in China as part of a plan to source it from local growers and ensure a year-round supply.
The offshoots of e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd are setting up a joint venture with a major insurance company in China, tapping into the huge potential of the country's internet health insurance sector.
It's part of the bank's aggressive expansion plan along the Belt and Road Initiative routes
Steel futures slumped in China as exchanges announced measures to cool speculation after prices surged to the highest level since 2014 in record volume on Thursday. Reinforcement-bar used to strengthen concrete fell 3.7 percent to 2,648 yuan ($408) a metric ton in Shanghai, snapping a four-day rally. Prices have climbed 15 percent this week, the most since the contract started in 2009.
An auto rental service that uses only electric cars is now ready for nationwide expansion after what the company called a two-year successful trial in Wuhu, East China's Anhui province.
The signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by world leaders in the UN headquarters in New York on Friday will be a milestone in global joint efforts to combat the common threat faced by mankind.
After the "poisonous land" case in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, hit the headlines, students in another school in the same province recently also reported symptoms such as bleeding from their noses to body itching and skin peeling.
SINCE LAST WEEK, police in Fuzhou, capital of Southeast China's Fujian province, have been using high-definition cameras to take photos of jaywalkers. But they not only fined three people for jaywalking, they also published their photos online. That move might violate the legal rights of the rule-breakers, said a Thursday comment in Beijing News:
AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL in Hanzhong, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, was beaten to death by her father, because she refused to apologize for coming home late. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:
POLICE OFFICERS in Ma'anshan, Anhui province in East China, recently received an emergency phone call from a 70-year-old man in the early hours of the morning. The old man said he had fallen and needed assistance. When police officers came to help him, however, they found the old man had prepared tea and wanted to chat. The old man's only aim was to get some company. People.cn commented on Thursday:
The first quarter macroeconomic data the National Bureau of Statistics has released suggest a promising year ahead for China. Given the complicated economic situations at home and abroad, it is encouraging to see the Chinese economy avoiding a severe downturn - as feared by some observers - reducing the risk factors, starting to stabilize, and showing initial industrial advantages in the fiercely competitive international market.
Twenty-one "brokers, recruiters and employers" in the United States that allegedly used illegal means to help more than 1,000 foreign youths get student visas (in some cases employment visas) were arrested in a sting operation by the US Department of Homeland Security earlier this month. The students, mainly from China and India, can now have their visas cancelled and be deported.
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