Air and noise pollution created by construction sites could become a thing of the past, as China is promoting prefabricated buildings, known as prefabs, to save energy, improve safety and reduce excess capacity, the State Council, China's Cabinet, announced after an executive meeting, which was presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Sept 14.
The Chinese government will further streamline approval procedures for foreign investment across the country to attract more overseas investment and improve China's business environment.
Coordinated Development is the second of the Five Major Development Concepts, President Xi Jinping's guiding strategy to transform China's economy. In order to optimize economic development, both the efficient allocation of resources and equitable access to resources are essential.
The yuan was included in the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights currency basket on Oct 1. According to the IMF, the US dollar will now comprise 41.73 percent (down from 41.9 percent) of the SDR currency basket, the euro 30.93 percent (down from 37.4 percent), the yen 8.33 percent (down from 9.4 percent), the pound sterling 8.09 percent (down from 11.3 percent), and the yuan 10.92 percent.
"The eye of heaven is open for tourists now!" The news quickly spread across the internet. The "eye of heaven" refers to the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (or FAST), the largest in the world, used to gaze into the depths of the universe.
After having been the top destination of inward foreign direct investment for decades, China's investment orientation has become increasingly outward looking. In 2014, China's outbound FDI surpassed inbound FDI for the first time. Last year, the country became the world's second-largest source of outward FDI. And in the near term, its overseas investments are expected to grow 10 percent a year, and exceed $2 trillion by 2020.
In the National Library of China, more than 200 people registered recently for a lottery. This time though the prize was not money but to attend an introductory course on aerospace technology.
Chinese universities renowned for their work in aeronautics and astronautics:
For people who want to lose weight, it is wise to learn healthy strategies from nutritionists.
International efforts to end the fighting in Syria have been dealt a serious blow, with the United States suspending direct contacts with Russia on halting the war, and chilly relations turned even frostier after Russia put a hold on a plutonium disposal deal with Washington.
Haitians living in vulnerable coastal shacks frantically sought shelter as the strongest Caribbean storm in nine years, Hurricane Matthew, closed in on the southwestern peninsula, sending storm surges, wind and rain into seaside towns.
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studies on exotic matter that could result in improved materials for electronics or quantum computers.
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