China will bolster support for small and medium-sized enterprises as they expand overseas for raw materials, sales and research and development, an official with the country's industrial regulator said on Friday.
Money issuance accelerated to a 13-month high in China in the first quarter and banks almost doubled new yuan loans from February to March, as the authorities cemented economic stabilization policies through credit expansion, according to the People's Bank of China on Friday.
China will be pleased to see the resumption of Malaysia's East Coast Rail Link project, as it hopes to further expand mutual benefits, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said.
President Xi Jinping has called on an ethnic minority group living in the remote mountains of Southwest China to continue to work for a better life, and he congratulated them on their progress so far.
The ongoing China-led international collaboration project Tianqin, a space-based gravitational wave detection system scheduled to be completed by 2035, is expected to significantly improve understanding of major cosmic phenomena, including black holes, scientists said.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May gained some valuable Brexit breathing room this week when European Union leaders granted her request to move the goal posts and push the nation's planned exit from the bloc back to Oct 31.
China's consumer and factory-gate inflation picked up in March as government efforts to stabilize economic growth have begun to boost domestic demand, analysts said.
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Premier Li Keqiang and his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic visited the construction site of the Peljesac Bridge on Thursday. The bridge will connect two parts of the European Union member's territory and is being built by Chinese companies.
China and the United States will maintain close contact on economic and trade issues in several ways and continue their talks, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
Beijing said on Thursday it hopes to see the extension of a treaty between Washington and Moscow to limit their strategic arms. The Foreign Ministry also expressed hopes that the world's top two nuclear powers would take effective measures to scale back their nuclear weapons.
Wednesday was a busy day for European Union institutions, with the European Council holding an emergency summit to discuss a further Brexit extension for the United Kingdom. Still, there was time for the European Parliament in Brussels to host a photo exhibition about China's achievements in poverty reduction.
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