The foreign trade generated by private firms in central and western areas surged 28.3 percent and 22.4 percent, respectively, 19.5 percentage points and 13.6 percentage points higher than that of the eastern region.
The forum, organized in 2014, aims to build an information highway, expand cooperation and promote communication through media collaboration. It will move to Boao, Hainan province, next year, according to Li Jun, deputy Party chief of Hainan.
The findings were published in scientific journal Cell on Nov 29.
The first two organized groups of pilgrims from India on Thursday arrived in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region for their annual pilgrimage.
The former New York mayor and multibillionaire, who celebrated his 78th birthday last Friday, got an earful from US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, also 78, but five months older than Bloomberg.
The first 24-hour Mingyuedao bookstore in Qingdao, Shandong province, was launched five years ago by the Qingdao Xinhua Bookstore, with the aim of creating a cultural space for book lovers at night.
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The floods, caused by heavy rainfall that started on Saturday, have toppled more than 600 homes, damaged nearly 8,800 dwellings and triggered the evacuation of 101,000 people in Sichuan. A total of 36,900 hectares of crops have been affected by the floods and 5,200 hectares will have no harvest this year, the ministry said.
The firm owns over 100 such popular emojis, including Zhileng Shaonyu or Freeze Girl. It employs over 50 emoji artists. Some of them work part-time. They create images, comics, videos and the like. Once its artists create an emoji, Block 12 promotes it on social media.
The first middle-to-low speed magnetic levitation (maglev) rail line in China's capital has entered the system debugging stage, preparing for its debut run within the year.
The findings are based on questionnaires completed by about 830 Beijing residents last year and more than 430 in 1996.