This year's grand marshal was Loretta Brennan Glucksman, chairwoman of The American Ireland Fund, a group that has raised millions of dollars for philanthropic projects in Ireland, including funding for integrated schools for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland.
Those results are in line with the farming and language dispersal hypothesis of agricultural expansion in China, which proposed that the present-day distribution of many languages and language families can be traced to the early development and dispersal of farming, and are also supported by archaeological evidence.
This year, the government pledged to deepen reform of State-owned enterprises and promised measures, including the introduction of a mixed ownership system and efforts to make SOEs leaner and healthier.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the scientific discovery of giant pandas.
This year, China Pacific Construction Group will be the chief strategic partner of the expo for the third time. By serving the expo, it will continue to deepen communication and cooperation with the 10-member ASEAN.The Fortune Global 500 company has established cooperation relationships with Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia by carrying out a series of successful projects in each country. It also set up an ASEAN headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's opening up and reform, said Wang, adding that next year will be the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US.
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This year, the Spring Festival holiday arrived 11 days earlier than last year, thus impairing the comparability of industrial output figures between the two years, said NBS spokesman Mao Shengyong. Last year's holiday fell later, so its full effect was not felt during the two-month period.
This year, Chinese customers will see more Volvo car models fitted with plug-in hybrid T8 twin-engines, and then in 2019, all electric Volvos will roll off the company's Luqiao assembly line.
This year, China Gathering at SXSW will continue to focus on high tech while additionally introducing music components. Participating companies include Alibaba, Ehang, Mobike and Ant Financial.
This year's Lunar New Year holiday ran from Feb 15 to Feb 21.