Shihezi is a young city, established in the 1950s about 150 kilometers northwest of Urumqi, the capital of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. It is one of nine bustling cities that have risen from the bleak Gobi Desert.
Shi Xuebin, an ambulance driver for the Medical Emergency Center in Tianjin, puts on protective goggles and clothing before a mission on Feb 19.[Photo/Xinhua]
Since 2016, the government has reached agreements with pharmaceutical companies on the prices of 39 drugs -- including 17 cancer medicines -- on the medical insurance list, said Yu Jingjin, an official with the National Health Commission, at a press conference in Beijing.
Similarly, additional mandates, which are approved by the General Assembly and the Security Council after the approval of the budget, are assessed only at the beginning of the following year, said the secretary-general. The lag between expenditure and assessment has created a gap almost half the size of the Working Capital Fund. Therefore, "even if all member states pay on time and in full, the United Nations will still face cash problems toward the end of the year", he said.
Shi said the terminal is upgrading its techniques and will be put into operation in the first quarter of 2018.
Simply being eligible for low-interest loans was a new opportunity. But the church couldn't have been approved for so many loans -- which the government will forgive if they are used for wages, rent and utilities -- without a second break.
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Since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, some politicians in the West have taken a skeptical attitude toward it, and even drummed up suspicions with their outdated "China threat" rhetoric. In the latest, and unexpected example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that China must not link its investments in the western Balkans to political demands at a joint news conference with Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in Berlin on Wednesday.
Shenzhen, which pioneered China's reform and opening-up, is renowned for its fast-growing startups, skyscrapers, sci-tech innovation and urban construction.
Simba is a 2-year-old half-Shitzu, half-Bordie Collie.
Silk EV will invest 10 billion yuan (.4 billion) to build an automobile engineering ecosystem with its partners, with Jilin and Italy's "Automobile Canyon" as the core, and strive to build the Hongqi S-Series brand into a world-famous luxury sports car brand.