Gansu has hired more than 20,000 rural residents and set up a 24-hour provincial-level supervision and complaint hotline to strengthen rural water supply management.
GDP in Liaoning last year was -2.5 percent, making it the only province whose economy shrank. But Dalian was the fastest-growing city in the province.
Further details of the fire incident are awaited.
Fueling hopes among ordinary residents that the situation in Hong Kong may have calmed at least temporarily, the Cross-Harbour Tunnel reopened on Wednesday and search teams sweeping the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus for a second day found no rioters still holding out.
Fu Cong, head of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, made the remarks at a plenary meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly on Friday at the UN headquarters in New York.
GUANGZHOU -- Traffic resumed Friday morning on a sea bridge in South China's Guangdong province after it was temporarily closed last week due to abnormal shaking.
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GUANGZHOU -- A man suspected of killing five other family members and then setting a house on fire in South China's Guangdong Province has died, local police said Friday.
Gao Feng, the ministry's spokesman, said the country's structure of outbound investment continued to improve, with investment mainly going to sectors of business and rental services, mining, manufacturing, retail and wholesale, among others.
Gao Rongkun, head of Shanghai Customs, said: "We are now opening the doors of the zones to both domestic and international markets."
Fueled by a surge of yuan-denominated fund-raising, .51 billion were raised by private equity companies and venture capital firms on the Chinese mainland last year.