The government's decision to raise the number of people who speak the country's official, standardized language has drawn attention to a small county in North China, as Zhang Yu reports from Chengde, Hebei province.
The government, meanwhile, expects to reduce its dependence on debt, though very slightly, to 34.5 percent, from the 35.3 percent in the fiscal 2017, with issuance of new bonds expected to fall to 33.69 trillion yen (7 billion) in fiscal 2018.
The growth was 5.9 percentage points higher than in the first five months of the year, and 11.7 percentage points more than that of the first quarter, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) told a press conference Thursday.
The growing demand for food and fruit online purchases, for instance, has challenged the industry due to special packing and temperature requirements. Cold chain logistics, which also deals with food wastage, is now gaining ground with logistics service providers.
The government-backed project was set up mainly to offer an engagement to poor farmers and rural residents with disabilities living nearby.
The group board of directors proposed the payment of a 2017 final cash dividend of 1 yuan per share, and the total cash dividend for the year reached 1.5 yuan per share, doubled from a year ago.
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The government's funding gap, the difference between spending needs and revenue sources, would be extended in the absence of additional support measures to increase financial resources, said analysts.
The government's general budgetary revenue rose by 3.2 percent in the first eight months, well below the 9.4 percent growth in the same period last year, and lower than the full-year target of 4.9 percent, the Ministry of Finance said.
The growth rate of second-hand car sales was 14.6 percentage points faster than that of the new car sales in the first three quarters.
The group, formerly known as Pingshuo Coal Industry Co, was established in 1982 for the development of Antaibao mine, a China-US coproduction coal plant. It was incorporated into China National Coal Group Corp in 1997.