In 2017, a total of 3.04 billion passenger trips were made on railways, up 9.6 percent year on year. More than 56 percent of those trips were made on high-speed railways.
In 2016, the Ministry of Education listed "E-sports and Management" as a major for higher professional schools from this year. In fact, e-sports-related courses were already available in universities and vocational schools in Inner Mongolia, Chongqing, Zhejiang and other provinces,
In 2017 alone, these Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms enrolled 160,000 students, hosted 4,074 cultural events and drew over one million visitors and participants.
In Beijing alone, there are several niche cafes or restaurants like CAVE. There is an izakaya, or a Japanese gastropub, that has three raccoons; a cafe where customers can take photos with about 30 huskies; and another cafe where people can have fun with a dozen Shiba Inus, a breed of Japanese hunting dogs.
In April, total smartphone shipments in China increased about 94 percent compared with March and totaled 40.8 million, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a state-run research organization, reported.
In 2017, China imported 1.51 million tons of liquefied natural gas and 7.6 million tons of crude oil from the United States.
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In 2016, the International Monetary Fund added the Chinese yuan into its basket of reserve currencies.
In 2017, BOC launched yuan-baht and yuan-dong cross-currency trading services in Guangxi, which help companies and other agencies operating in China, Thailand and Vietnam.
In 2017, a number of news organizations were rejected by the US government in press conferences and other official activities, and the CNN and New York Times, among others, were barred from White House briefings, it said.
In April 2016, construction began on the world's first ballast track with maximum speed of 350 kph between Beijing and Zhangjiakou. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019 and will shorten the trip between the two cities from the current three hours to just one hour.