The Chinese government has intensified efforts to fight pollution and use more clean energy.
The Chengdu breeding base was set up in 1987 with six hungry pandas rescued from the wild when bamboo, the staple food of pandas, blossomed and died. It is now home to 176 pandas, according to base chief Zhang Zhihe.
The China Association of Metal Scrap Utilization's 2016-20 plan, published last December, said that China's scrap steel ratio should reach 20 percent by 2020.
The China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline will transport 200 billion cu m of natural gas by November, equivalent to the total annual natural gas consumption of China or 11 years' of natural gas supply for Beijing.
The Canton Fair has served as a platform for participating companies in poor areas to access the international market, seek potential partners and establish a global marketing network, companies said.
The China-Europe freight train service was launched in 2011 and grown rapidly with high efficiency. It has become an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Cardiospace device was developed under a French-Chinese agreement, with CNES responsible for the development and qualification of the system, delivered in March 2014 to the Astronaut Center of China. Research teams at the Angers and Tours university hospitals provided scientific support during development and, along with their Chinese counterparts, will use medical data collected.
The China Banking Association said in a report issued in July: "The Chinese banking sector will make a transition from high-speed growth to high-quality development. From 2018 to 2019, the banking sector will continue the development trend of last year, with positive changes taking place in its asset and liability structure. The size of interbank assets, interbank wealth management, and investment via special purpose vehicles may shrink further, and the growth in such business may slow down further.
The Chinese economy has again displayed its resilience and capacity for self-healing, experts said after more than 30 major cities released their key economic indicators, with the majority of them registering positive year-on-year gross domestic product growth in the first half of this year.
The Chilean government has expanded its lockdown measures to 30 more communities, mainly in the capital Santiago and the metropolitan area, to combat the upcoming peak of the pandemic.