China is willing to link its Belt and Road Initiative with the trade and investment blueprints of Japan and the Republic of Korea, said Cao Wenlian, director general of International Cooperation Center of China's National Development and Reform Commission. Cao spoke in Tokyo on Monday.
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said China's decision to write off his country's debts will now give the West African republic breathing space to focus on other priorities.
Zhang Huamei, 56, has come a long way in the past four decades.
US president-elect Donald Trump has caused an unexpected diplomatic incident with China by taking a phone call from Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, but the call itself is expected to have "very limited influence" and is not expected to affect the one-China policy, analysts in Washington and Beijing said over the weekend.
After more than a decade of rapid growth, the Chinese outbound travel market is seeing more Chinese travelers who are independent, sophisticated and eager to seek out new experiences, industry experts say.
President Xi Jinping has called for a smaller army with better combat capability and optimized structure as military reform deepens.
Heavy smog that has been covering many cities in northern China has caused some authorities to bring out pollution-fighting artillery.
Some areas in northern China are likely to see another day of smog as the national observatory issued an orange alert for air pollution on Sunday. Heavy smog was expected to stay in some parts of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi provinces from Sunday overnight to Monday morning, according to the National Meteorological Center.
Some changes are striking. Other changes are more striking, but not so when looked at, such as the farms in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, where I worked in the 1970s.
Item from Dec 5, 1998, in China Daily: Foreign students studying at Beijing University perform Ode to the '98 Anti-Flood Heroes yesterday.
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