In July as well, BMW and Brilliance Auto reached a strategic consensus on building an advanced auto parts industry cluster in Northeast China's Liaoning province, and the former also was planning to build an innovation base in Shanghai with China's e-commerce giant Alibaba to help foster tech startups focusing on internet and cars.
In December, the PBOC also injected 60.5 billion yuan of funds through pledged supplementary lending to the China Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank of China and the Agricultural Development Bank of China.
In Brunei in May, over 50 entrepreneurs launched the Zero Waste Brunei campaign. They pledged to gradually reduce the use of disposables such as straws, plastic bags, plastic packaging and plastic cutlery, with the goal of completely eliminating them from their stores.
In January, the European Union's Patent Office rejected applications submitted on behalf of AI programs, sparking debates on whether AI can hold a new patent.
In Cherokee County of the state, a second-grade pupil tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the first day of school on Monday, forcing the child's teacher and classmates to be sent home to quarantine for two weeks.
In June 2019, the US Department of Agriculture announced to offer million in funding for the eradication and control of feral pigs.
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In January, a national-level IP court for hearing civil and administrative patent-related appeals was set up in Beijing.
In January, the two nations reached a "Phase One" trade deal that called for China to boost its purchases of US goods by billion in 2020 and by 3 billion in 2021. Economists say it's unclear if China can meet the goal amid the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
In February, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent some 2,000 letters to families who already had received final orders of removal by judges in absentia, asking them to self-report to local ICE offices by March to comply with the orders, local media reported. The upcoming operation is expected to target them.
In Kagoshima Prefecture, a women in her 70s died from a fatal head injury after falling into a gutter on the street as she was walking to her friend's house on Sunday, local media reported.