The meeting on Tuesday was Zhao's first public appearance since taking on the new role. Guo Shengkun, Zhao's predecessor, became the new head of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee under the CPC Central Committee after he was elected to the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Oct 25.
The members said the Belt and Road Initiative is of global significance and conforms to the trend of multilateralism, and the Advisory Council will continue to contribute to the Belt and Road construction.
The ministry said the US government has repeatedly generalized the national security concept and abused its national power to suppress Chinese companies, seriously violating market competition principles and international trade rules.
The mechanism regarding qualified overseas investors will be expanded. This will encourage such investors to participate in futures trading of crude oil and iron ore and provide more support to foreign-invested financial institutions in underwriting local government bonds.
The ministry said 552 new cases and seven more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
The meeting also called for enhanced supervision and regulation of overseas investment. Since year's end, the government has introduced many measures to lower outbound investment risks.
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The minister said the army struck an arm depot which belongs to the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, adding that the depot contained chemical materials the terrorists were bringing in from Iraq.
The military said its troops came under fire in some areas, and said protesters tried to break through the border fence. It said troops shot and killed three Palestinians trying to plant a bomb.
The ministry found that US companies had dumped grain sorghum on the Chinese market, and such imports had caused substantial damage to the domestic industry, after China decided to launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes into US sorghum in early February.
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