In the United States, baseball has long been considered the national pastime. In fact, baseball's popularity surged last year with a thrilling postseason after the sport had lost ground to pro football in the last two decades.
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
China will work to better the business environment with measures that further streamline administration and reduce corporate burdens, under a decision made at a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
Data on poverty relapse rates and impoverished households' income stability will figure in evaluations of provincial districts' poverty alleviation efforts in 2017, according to a senior official from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Five local officials in Hebei province have been sacked for embezzling poverty relief funds or failing to implement anti-poverty programs in their region, China's top disciplinary watchdog said on Wednesday.
"The lobbying was an arduous battle - eight mouths versus more than 200," said Huang Dashan, Party chief of the Pona village committee, recalling the difficulty he and seven colleagues had to persuade the villagers to demolish their old adobe homes in 2005 to make way for new home inns.
China plans to spend 732 billion yuan ($112.7 billion) on railway projects in 2018 to continue building its world-leading rail system, said Lu Dongfu, general manager of China Railway Corp, the nation's railway operator, on Tuesday.
China plans to issue management guidelines to crack down on commercial bribery and tighten rules on product quality and environmental protection for its centrally controlled, State-owned enterprises operating in overseas markets, the country's top SOE regulator said on Tuesday.
The public can report crimes committed by military personnel or damaging information related to national security to military authorities via a new website that began operating on Monday.
China supports the idea of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea using the 2018 Winter Olympics to improve ties, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The ROK will host the Games in Pyeongchang in February.
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