The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, started a second review of the draft national security law for Hong Kong at its 20th session starting from Sunday.
The Tomb-sweeping Day, or Qingming Festival, is an important occasion for Chinese people to honor their ancestors. Many also spent the three-day holiday on leisure travel.
The State Council mechanism on coordinated prevention and control of the outbreak must continue with efforts to ensure the supply of materials and human resources in curbing the outbreak, it added.
The Times reported that Iran contacted the International Civil Aviation Organization and invited the US National Transportation Safety Board to assist in the investigation despite previous statements that American investigators wouldn't be involved.
The State Council’s Office of Education Steering Committee handed notifications to relevant provinces to supervise the handling of the issue and demanded these provinces ensure normal school operations, she said.
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The State Council, China's Cabinet, defines nonviable "zombies" as firms that incur three consecutive years of losses, cannot meet environmental and technological standards, do not align with national industrial policies, and rely heavily on government or bank support to survive.
The Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.52 percent at 2,844.51, the lowest closing since June of 2016. The Shenzhen Component Index edged up 0.16 percent to 9,339.37.
The Trump administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of daily deaths from COVID-19, reaching about 3,000 on June 1, nearly double the current level of about 1,750, and 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now, according to The New York Times.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, released a guideline on further improving the utilization of foreign investment on Thursday, with pledge to continue shortening the national and free trade zone negative lists for foreign investment and to eliminate restrictions outside the negative lists, opening up more sectors to foreign investors.