Throughput via the Three Gorges Dam's shipping locks hit a record high of 138 million metric tons last year, despite the dam originally being designed to have an annual shipping capacity of just 100 million tons. The congestion resulted in delays, as it usually takes five days for ships to pass through the dam, Zhang said.
Thousands join drive to improve lives in rural areas
Thursday's interbank market showed the overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the cost at which banks lend to one another, climbed 9.5 basis point to 2.519 percent. The Shibor rate for one-month loans rose 2.6 basis point to 2.9 percent.
Thousands of violent and terrorist cases took place in Xinjiang from 1990 to 2016, killing or injuring innocent people and causing a large amount of property loss, the spokesman said.
Though it is just Day One for the newly minted Amazon-Whole Foods conglomerate, the changes are coming fast. Amazon has slashed prices on numerous items in Whole Foods stores, but not the popular hot bar. Amazon has also set up retail displays for the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot in Whole Foods stores around Seattle, under banners calling the Alexa-powered devices “Farm Fresh” and “Pick of the Season.”
Three people from Hong Kong work at a farm in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, last year. They developed a cohabitation system for fish and hydroponic vegetables. Zhang Youqiong/For China Daily
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Tim Morris, Interpol's executive director of police services, said China has become one of the managers of the international police organization since Meng, who is also China's vice-minister of public security, was elected as the president of the organization in 2016. China is also expected to contribute more in maintaining global security, he said.
Three were injured in the pileup with more than 80 stranded near the scene, Kunming's Xishan district government said in a statement on Sina Weibo on Monday.
Tianjin will give top priority to industrial restructuring as part of the ongoing efforts by the northern port city to sustain annual GDP growth.
Ties between China and the UK, especially business links, have grown increasingly strong and interdependent during the past seven decades.