In the first eight months of this year, natural gas consumption in China reached 180 billion cubic meters, an increase of 17 percent year-on-year, according to figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
In the Western media, what happened in Hong Kong, despite its violent nature, was portrayed as a "pro-democracy" movement.
In the first half of this year, China's demand for Chilean salmon doubled compared with the same period last year.
In the fourth quarter of 2016, Chinese lenders' non-performing loan ratio declined for the first time since 2012 to 1.74 percent, suggesting that loan losses posing risks to the country's financial market are easing.
In the Philippines and across Southeast Asia, rising numbers of COVID-19 cases have pushed people to hoard masks and sanitizers, leaving most drugstores with empty shelves. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have a total of more than 1,000 cases.
In the Senate, where the trial is expected to begin in January, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said on Wednesday morning that Democrats were poised to "misuse the solemn process of impeachment to blow off partisan steam''. He has said that he views their case as "weak" and predicted a speedy acquittal in the new year.
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In the first two months, China saw two cases of "serious" accidents, compared with four in the same period of last year, and reported no cases of "particularly serious" accidents.
In the financial sector, the foreign-capital cap in the banking sector was lifted, and the foreign-capital limit of securities companies, fund management companies, futures companies, and life insurance companies were relaxed to 51 percent.
In the first instance, the machine would compare the detected face with the image logged by public security authorities, said Chen Jidong, director of biometric identification technology at Ant Financial.
In the first quarter of this year, hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores grew only 0.3 percent, according to Kantar's report.