The first overseas factory of China's major snack producer Qiaqia Food is expected to start operations in Thailand in June, said Wang Bin, its vice-president, in an interview with the Economic Observer in March.
The first two six-axle diesel locomotives for Transnet rolled off the production line at CRRC's Dalian plant in March 2016 and, after two months at sea, they were delivered to the South African coastal city of Durban and put into use. But that was just the start, as in line with South Africa's commitment to boosting its own manufacturing capacity, most of the ordered locomotives will be built at local plants in Pretoria and Durban that are operated by Transnet itself. As of July last year, 305 locally assembled locomotives had already been delivered, Xinhua reported.
The findings showed that 63 percent of employees polled at large companies believed corrupt practices "happened widely". The study covered 14 markets in the Asia Pacific, including China and India.
The five-month unrest in Hong Kong has seen violence escalating despite the efforts of the region's government to ease tensions. Since Nov 11, to force others into so-called "work, study and shopping strikes", radicals have used violent and extreme means to sabotage public transportation, attack people with different opinions, smash pro-Beijing business outlets, and battle police with gasoline bombs, arrows, bricks and chemicals.
The first self-driving taxi in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, starts trial operation. [Photo by Liu Liqin/For China Daily]
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The following year, a new hospital was built outside Changsha's North Gate, resulting from the merger of Yali Hospital and Xiangya Medical College. Tan named the new institution Xiangya Hospital. The Red Mansion, a building at the hospital when it was first built, is still in use. Designed by US architect Henry Killam Murphy, it is a cultural heritage protected at national level.
The first priority should be absolute poverty, which China is on course to eliminate by 2020, that's a very important step. As GDP goes up, there are more challenges that need to be looked at, many of them to do with relative poverty. People's expectations go up, what people want today is different from what people wanted yesterday, and what our children and grandchildren want will also be different. It's important to look at the quality of public services, not just quantity. If you look at the relative poverty, it's about the quality and access to public services, in particular health and education.
The first Brooklyn Chinatown was originally established in the Sunset Park area and has since expanded into parts of Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Sheepshead Bay.
The forum also will "set a direction" for the international community of cooperation and mutual benefit, Wu said in an interview with Chinese media. "Cooperation and mutual benefit can make up for and improve the issues brought by globalization."