When US President Donald Trump made his first state visit to China in November last year, agreements between the United States and China related to liquefied natural gas amounted to tens of billions of dollars.
It's almost harvest season for lotus roots in Jiangxi province, but Zhou Haiyan, 46, has no plans to reap what she sowed: The roots are not for sale.
For the past month, the Peak Pegasus, a 228.6-meter-long bulk carrier weighing 43,000 metric tons, has been making circles off the coast of China because of its cargo: 70 tons of US soybeans said to be worth $20 million.
Two fugitives at large for almost three decades after they were suspected of killing seven people in Siping, Jilin province, were arrested on Monday, local police announced on Friday.
Torrential rain hit the eastern part of Gansu province between Thursday night and the wee hours of Friday, killing eight people and leaving two missing, the provincial government said on Friday.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, has decided to revamp the leading group for science, technology and education into a new body that specifically oversees the country's science and technology sector.
Farmers for Free Trade, a bipartisan coalition leading US farmers' opposition to tariffs, launched a new initiative on Wednesday highlighting the financial cost of the levies to the agricultural sector in major rural communities, as trade frictions escalated following a fresh round of duties Beijing and Washington slapped on each other's goods.
China's year-on-year July consumer inflation registered higher-than-expected growth compared with the previous month's, while factory gate price inflation cooled slightly amid moderate downward pressure and trade friction with the United States.
When Thai student Patcharamai Sawanaporn finished college last year, she wanted a change of scenery that could help her grow into a more confident person and to experience a culture she had little contact with.
Increased efforts made in Jiangsu to save endangered species
For more than four years, Zhu Guoqiang has patrolled the Yangtze River to monitor critically endangered finless porpoises, no matter how hard it rains or how strong the wind blows.
China's international trade in services grew by 17 percent year-on-year to $397.31 billion in the first half of 2018, setting a record even amid the current global economic troubles, the Ministry of Commerce said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|