The banking industry's business climate index stood at 70.7 percent in Q4, up 0.5 percentage points from Q3, while the banking profitability index stood at 67.6 percent, increasing by 0.9 percentage points from the previous quarter.
The average price in the January-August period went down 2.7 percent from the same period last year. The decline was 0.6 percentage points larger than that in January-July.
The bimonthly legislative session of the NPC Standing Committee, which opened Wednesday, will close Friday.
The ball will descend in 60 seconds down a specially designed flagpole, beginning at 11:59 pm on Monday and resting at midnight to signal the start of the next year.
The attack is the worst mass shooting in the modern history of the United States.
The attacks by the United States on Huawei Technologies in the past few days show its failure in threatening European allies to get a blanket ban on the Chinese telecom giant's 5G technology.
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The biggest mistake we’ve made so far: “Getting a user study done before we did any product testing. It was a huge cost and we haven’t received any return on the investment.”
The bill affirms "the United States record on the Armenian Genocide", a first for the US Congress, where similar measures with such direct language have been introduced for decades but never passed. The vote was 403 to 16, with only 15 Republicans and one Democrat voting against the resolution.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index surged 0.33 percent, or 93.27 points, to end the day at 28,319.39 after having dipped to as low as 28,165 in morning trading.
The authors are writers with China Daily.