In a world undergoing dramatic changes, China will remain confident and resolute in safeguarding its sovereignty and security, and maintain its sincerity and goodwill for safeguarding world peace and promoting common prosperity, President Xi Jinping said in his 2019 New Year's speech.
Esports workers including gamers, managers and operational staff are still in short supply amid an industry boom, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said in a report.
Senior diplomats including State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for bolstering rules-based free trade and tackling protectionism at annual gatherings concerning East Asian cooperation in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
The United States and "pro-Taiwan independence" forces are to blame for recent turmoil in Hong Kong, according to a former Hong Kong member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, who said links between the violent vandals and external forces have surfaced.
Mettia Melillo, a tourist from Italy, received a temporary driver's permit in five minutes after filing out an application at Sanya Phoenix International Airport on Thursday after a new policy took effect the same day.
China's central bank may take an alternative approach to maintain lower corporate borrowing costs instead of an immediate interest rate cut - following the US Federal Reserve's quarter-percentage-point cut on Wednesday - to support the domestic economy and ease downward pressure in the second half of the year, the country's policy advisers said.
Qinglongqiao Railway Station, a one-story building of gray brick and red tile standing in Beijing's suburban Yanqing district, incorporates traditional Chinese and Western architectural styles.
A senior Chinese official urged the United States and some other Western countries on Thursday to stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs.
The current priority for China and the US is to effectively breathe life into the latest consensus of their top leaders and manage and control differences on the basis of mutual respect, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday.
Federal regulators realized the likelihood of a second crash involving Boeing's 737 Max 8 was high but thought telling pilots of the hazard posed by the plane's anti-stall system and how to respond to it would be sufficient to ensure the aircraft's safe operation, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
In 1864, Wuhan was proposed as a major railway hub, and British company Jardine Matheson asked the engineer Rowland Macdonald Stephenson to carry out field research in China and draw up a master plan for a national rail network.
Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Thursday that it is the island's ruling Democratic Progressive Party's "Taiwan independence" secessionist activities that led to the suspension of individual travel permits to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland.
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