Another referendum and another shock for the European Union. By linking his political future to a successful outcome of a plebiscite to amend the constitution, Matteo Renzi was playing for high stakes. Perhaps if he had waited to see the results of the Brexit referendum and the surprising Donald Trump election victory he might have taken a different course. Now Italy and the EU have to deal with the impact of his reckless gamble.
Despite frequent corrections, China's stock market indexes have unexpectedly kept moving up in recent months. The benchmark Shanghai composite index rose to 3,301 points in late November from as low as 2,638 points early this year.
Chinese students will have better chances of obtaining top-notch dual China-UK degrees - and at a lower cost - thanks to an initiative advancing student mobility and educational exchanges between the countries.
Mei Lun hid in the bamboo forest, while her twin sister, Mei Huan, ignored human onlookers and ate bamboo slowly in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province on Tuesday morning, as they met visitors for the first time after a monthlong quarantine.
From being goalkeeper of the Tibet men's soccer team to the coach of the autonomous region's only soccer club, Tang Zesheng has witnessed the ups and downs of the sport's development in the region.
In recent years, the treatment of pregnant patients has become an increasingly thorny task for Liu Wenxian, a cardiologist at Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, as a result of the rise in the number of older women wanting to give birth.
With the adoption of the universal two-child policy, the number of older women becoming pregnant has risen significantly and will result in a rise in the number of premature births, according to an official with the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
I started my career as a gynecologist 17 years ago at the Xuzhou Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Since then, there have been many changes in the patients I see. The number of women who find getting pregnant difficult or are infertile has risen rapidly, and the age of my patients has risen, especially since the beginning of the year when the universal two-child policy was adopted.
The patrol teams at the Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve need just three essential pieces of equipment for their daily work: a telescope; a pair of binoculars; and a smartphone fitted with an app developed by the reserve.
The Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve is one of the few reserves scattered across the Yangtze River basin to have made real progress in the restoration of degenerating wetland.
The central government has reiterated its determination to improve competitiveness and profitability for State-owned enterprises, especially for those directly administered by the State Council.
Ministries have responded to a series of concerns from the public and media outlets.
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