The plan bans kindergartens from assigning homework. Homework is also banned among Grade One and Grade Two students in elementary schools, while homework for pupils in Grade Three to Grade Six should be done within 60 minutes. Homework time for junior schools should be within 90 minutes, and that for high schoolers should be "assigned properly." Boarding schools should slash evening study time.
The political and legal staff should fulfill their major duties of safeguarding the country's political security, ensuring social stability, promoting social justice and protecting the people's safety, Xi said. He called for more effort to create a safe political and stable social environment, fair legal environment and excellent service environment, and enhance the people's sense of gains, happiness and safety.
The plan, which includes measures such as streamlined paperwork for imports, exports and shortened time for customs clearance, is aimed at promoting efficient trade facilitation and maintaining stable and healthy growth of foreign trade.
The premier also assured business leaders that the country will adopt stronger measures to protect intellectual property rights, with a system of punitive compensation for IP infringements set to be enforced to crack down on various types of wrongdoings.
The plant, which came into operation in 1999, has a total installed generation capacity of 845,000 kW, and can supply an area of 26 million square meters.
The police told Xinhua that 17 men and two women were confirmed dead at the scene.
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The platform joined forces with restaurants to co-develop and introduce 22 special menus, each containing at least one ingredient that came from the collective sourcing campaigns.
The platform called "AI", representing care for the heart in Chinese, covers daily health indicator monitoring and health condition assessment through voice and image recognition and interaction as well as access to personalized information, and lies inside WeChat as a mini program, the developers said.
The pilot program is expected to "greatly increase" customer flow to China Unicom's physical stores as customers belonging to the tech-savvy younger generation today are more accustomed to handling telecom-related matters online, said Huang Zhengshi, vice-general manager of the west branch of China Unicom Shanghai.
The planned summit between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was announced on Thursday by Republic of Korea national security adviser Chung Euiyong, who was in the US capital to brief officials on the DPRK-ROK talks held this week.