In January, the center chose dozens of types of hybrid rice and planted them on small plots of suburban desert areas neighboring Dubai.
In June, China Eastern, which is based in Shanghai, sold a 55 percent stake in its fully owned Eastern Air Logistics to investors and core employees with the aim of lowering the unit's debt ratio and improving its market competitiveness.
In January, SanPower Group Co Ltd, a private Chinese company with total assets of 120 billion yuan (.8 billion), signed an agreement with Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc to buy 100 percent stake of US biopharmaceutical company Dendreon Corp.
In February, residential buildings on a mountain slope in Shijiazhuang's Luquan district were reported to have been built and sold without authorization.
In December 2016, the top court ended the four-year-long trademark dispute by issuing a verdict, in which it ruled the registered trademark of Chinese company Qiaodan Sports infringed on Jordan's right to his name and violated provisions of the Trademark Law.
In January 2017, Hafeez took three Chinese companies to Pakistan and won a bid for a municipal project in Karachi.
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In June, at a conference to discuss poverty alleviation measures and solutions with top officials from impoverished areas, including Horqin, Xi said lifting people out of poverty is one of the tasks to which he has devoted the most attention.
In December 2015, Wuhan was given the C40 Cities Award in Paris for its successful restoration of Jinkou landfill.
In July, United Kingdom luxury house Burberry opened the first-of-its-kind social retail store in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, claiming to blend physical and social worlds with a suite of digital technologies powered by Chinese internet giant Tencent.
In Connecticut, among the state's 215 licensed skilled nursing facilities, 92 have had at least one confirmed case of COVID-19, according to the Hartford Courant, which cited state statistics released on Thursday. Some nursing homes have had more than one case. At least 241 nursing home residents have been hospitalized and at least 116 have died-accounting for nearly a third of all COVID-19 deaths in the state, the newspaper reported.