In September last year, the Qingdao demonstration center harvested four types of saline-alkali rice, with the highest yield reaching 9.3 tons per hectare, much higher than expected.
In October last year, Beijing backed the program allowing the bank debts of struggling enterprises to be exchanged for shares in them, as the authorities moved to resolve increasing worries about China's swelling pile of corporate debt.
In March, the government elevated its "employment-first policy" to a macro policy, together with fiscal and monetary policies, thus showing the concern over the domestic job market among officials.
In September, coffee beans from Cai's farm were selected to make reserved coffee for Starbucks' high-end stores in China. The packaged roasted beans are named after him as Qingkai Farm coffee beans, for the second year.
In May, Tanzania announced plans to boost annual rice production from 2.2 million tons to 4.5 million tons in a 12-year national plan. Local demand for rice has reached 2.05 million tons in 2018, according to a recent report by the government. It is projected to increase by 2.9 percent during the next five years to 2.27 tons.
In March, CSCEC set up a pandemic prevention and control working group to oversee related work, including organization, coordination and supervision, for the group's overseas branches.
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In May, China Medical City set up a life sciences accelerator in London, which aims to attract British life science companies to its much bigger Taizhou-based life science accelerator with the same name.
In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Trump's threat to send agents to the city was likely "bluster" but added that he would challenge any deployment in the courts. He said scenes of unidentified officers putting people in unmarked vans in Portland "appeared to violate basic constitutional rights".
In November, China Mobile outgunned foreign rivals to lead the global 5G System Architecture project, which will determine the "structure of 5G networks". It came shortly after polar coding, a technology backed by Huawei, was approved as part of the global standard for 5G.
In Shenzhen, Guangdong province, six KFC outlets recently unveiled a pilot charity program called "Food Bank" that gives unsold food to people in need for free. The food is stored in freezers and put into small bags with labels stating the product name, storage date and processing guidelines.