Staff members of the customs check the health declaration information of newly arrived inbound passengers in Chongqing, Southwest China, March 29, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi countered criticism on Thursday alleging that Chinese aid had contributed to a massive increase in African countries' debt. On the contrary, he said, China is helping the continent seek independent and sustainable economic growth.
Starting with an editorial around two weeks ago in The Mail on Sunday, officials in the Conservative Party, including former party leader Ian Duncan Smith, called for a "reckoning" against China and demanded that the UK "rethink" its relationship with Beijing.
Statistics show China had 260 million vehicles on the road as of 2019, and according to what is known as the international average scrap ratio, 9.1 million of those vehicles are classes as obsolete.
Statistics from the Beijing-headquartered think tank iyiou.com revealed that by September, there were a total of 20,011 private hospitals in China, accounting for nearly half of the country's medical institutions.
State Councilor Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis co-hosted the meeting held at the US State Department.
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State Grid Corporation of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Haier are the top three Chinese brands with highest value, at 503.69 billion yuan, 450.58 billion yuan and 428.65 billion yuan, respectively.
Statistics also showed that revenue from the country's display industry topped 200 billion yuan last year, and shipments of display panels reached around 57 million square meters in the first half of 2017, accounting for one-third of global shipments, second only to South Korea.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi also had online meetings or phone conversations with the foreign ministers of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy in less than a week's time.
Stable production and sales growth were reported among companies in traditional sectors such as electricity, oil, and coal in the first four months, it added.