Villagers draw irrigation water from underground in Linquan county, Anhui province, on Tuesday. The province only received about 30 percent of the regular amount of rainfall in October and is experiencing one of the worst droughts in 40 years. [Photo by Lu Qijian/For China Daily]
VisitBritain said every 22 Chinese visitors to Britain supports an additional job in tourism, stressing its ambition is to double the spending of Chinese visitors in the UK to one billion pounds (.39 billion) annually by 2020. Tourism is a 127-billion-pound industry in the UK.
Volunteers take part in a flood control drill in Fuyang, Anhui province, last year. [CHENG BAOSHENG/FOR CHINA DAILY]
WASHINGTON - The World Bank on Tuesday kept its growth forecasts for the global economy unchanged for this year and next year, but warned of a combination of considerable downside risks including escalating trade protectionism.
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has started returning US troops home from Syria after claiming a victory in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), the White House said on Wednesday.
Visitors take a guided tour of the Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai in November. [Photo/Xinhua]
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Volcker, who media reports said had been suffering from prostate cancer, was the first to bring celebrity status to the job of US central banker, serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. As with the man who succeeded him, Alan Greenspan, Volcker could soothe or excite financial markets with just a vague murmur.
Visitors gather around a Faraday Future FFZERO1 electric car during an unveiling event in Beijing.[Provided to China Daily]
Vyacheslav M. Lebedev, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, noted that the top courts of China and Russia have undertaken much judicial cooperation in the past decades, which has been "both constructive and innovative".
Voicing her concerns that innovation starts with education, Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi, Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific (UCLG-ASPAC), said "The environmental education level is not in parallel to people's education level. People have PhDs, masters or bachelors, but their environmental education could be very poor."