In July last year, Li and Merkel witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the smart verbund project between Guangdong province and BASF.
In January 2018, a Chinese consortium led by China Road and Bridge Corporation won the bid for the first phase of the Peljesac Bridge and its access roads, with the promise to finish the job in 36 months. The European Union funded 85 percent of the project's total cost. Construction kicked off in late July.
In July Kumar underwent a procedure to correct atrial fibrillation. As a result, he took a break, before resuming training for the inaugural World Parkinson's Table Tennis Championship in Pleasantville, 50 kilometers from New York, in mid-October, where he bagged a bronze for Men's singles and silver for Men's doubles.
In December 2016, the central government released a document ordering the system, which is linked to the performance evaluations of top officials, to be established nationwide by the end of 2018.
In February, China amended its corporate income tax law for the first time in 10 years; the corporate income tax rate, however, remained unchanged
In Europe, Germany, Britain, France and Italy are those markets included in the top 10, all reporting growth in outbond demand in 2016, with Germany being the world's third largest market with a 5 percent increase in international tourism spending in 2016 to billion.
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In July, Chinese firms filled an unprecedented 115 places on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2017, the 14th straight year that the country's firms have increased their presence on the list. Internet service giants Alibaba and Tencent joined the list for the first time.
In February, "The Wandering Earth" debuted in China and managed to gross more than 4.6 billion yuan (5.7 million) in the country's box office. The sci-fi craze led to booming sales of the book carrying the short story by Liu Cixin, on which the film was based. More than 100,000 copies of Liu's book were sold subsequently, and other sci-fi books topped the sales rankings on e-commerce websites such as Amazon.cn, JD.com and Dangdang.com.
In Colombia, for example, Chinese companies in the oil infrastructure construction, automobiles and IT and telecommunication sectors are seeing growing influence in the country, as China has become its second-largest trading partner.
In December 1987, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe June 26 as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Activities in China to mark the day this year are themed "Healthy life, green and drug free."