The goal of balanced development also requires megacities to spread their populations to neighboring areas and build city clusters so resources can be shared, said Hu Xuwei, a researcher of regional economics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The government should prioritize efforts to make the domestic market more open and standardized, discourage regional protectionism, industry barriers and monopolies, and promote fairer competition to help more exporters switch to the domestic market, he said.
The government made the remarks on Thursday in its appeal against the High Court's ruling that the ban is unconstitutional and contravenes the constitutional document of the special administrative region. The court also ruled against the necessity of the ban on facial coverings during assemblies and protests.
The government on Tuesday issued a red travel alert - the second level of a three-tier system that rates travel safety - for the entire world except for the Chinese mainland, Macao and Taiwan.
The government respects the election results, she said. There are various analyses and interpretations that showed the result reflected people's dissatisfaction with the current situation and deep-seated problems in society, Lam said.
The global flagship store of Huawei Technologies Co in Shanghai. [Photo by Wang Gang/ For China Daily]
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The funds were allocated to drought-stricken regions in northern China where over 100,000 square kilometers of farmland has been in the grip of drought since mid-April, as well as to quake-stricken areas in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The gaming-to-social media giant has acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Skydance, the companies said in a joint statement released on Friday. The Wall Street Journal cited an unnamed source that the Chinese firm would hold a little less than 10 percent of the United States production studio. Tencent did not confirm this when contacted by China Daily.
The government proposed to revise the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance in Hong Kong to enable the city to surrender fugitive offenders to jurisdictions with no long-term agreements with the SAR. Hong Kong has such agreements with 20 jurisdictions and mutual legal assistance arrangements with 32 others, not including the Chinese mainland, Macao and Taiwan.
The government is keen to build a healthier nation and eager to boost the outdoor sports sector through infrastructure and education. It has already announced it will build five national outdoor sports centers, 50 mountain trails with logistics facilities, 1,000 clubs for open-water sports including canoeing and sailing, and 2,000 aviation camps for sports such as paragliding and skydiving by 2020.