In 2014, when Jia Xiaobo first told officials in Urumqi his idea of making the city a railway hub that would collect cargo from around China and ship it by train to Europe, they turned him down. Officials didn't believe the city - the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region - was up to such an ambitious concept.
In 2011, Jiangmen, Guangdong province, proposed banning dogs from its urban areas. The city launched strict enforcement action in the zones, but the regulation was set aside after nine days of controversy.
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Illegal firearms seized by police since 2018 are displayed before being destroyed in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Monday. [Photo by Ren Yong/For China Daily]
In 1997, Boeing announced a hit of .6 billion including hundreds of millions to deal with factory inefficiencies after it was forced to suspend output of its 737 and 747 lines due to supply chain problems.
If, as US Pacific Command chief Harry Harris claimed, THAAD is expected to be operational "in the coming days", there is little chance of it being suspended because of protests from Beijing and Moscow, even though it comes at a time when Washington and its allies want them to commit more comprehensively and deeply to coordinated moves.
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In 2016, China requested consultations with the US to challenge the full compliance of the latter with a WTO ruling on 2014 against its countervailing duty measures on 22 products from China.
In 1988, Guangzhou was the first in the country to launch the ceremonial scattering of ashes in the sea.
In 2010, the CPC General Office and the State Council jointly issued a regulation ordering officials to report their personal affairs - including marriages, property and whether family members live abroad - to disciplinary authorities.
In 2003, China's GDP was at 13.74 trillion yuan, of which the contribution rate of primary industry was 3.1 percent, the secondary industry 57.9 percent and the tertiary industry 39 percent. China at that time was a newly industrialized and emerging country.