Organized by Xylem Inc and the Center for Environmental Education and Communications of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, as well as the China Women's Development Foundation, the Xylem Public Walk is in its fourth consecutive year. More than 180 participants were involved in the event.
Others at the forum described how companies can utilize existing technologies to not only help the environment but the bottom line as well.
Online search offered a major breakthrough in the context of targeting based on knowledge and resulted in search advertising taking almost 50 percent of the total billion in online ad spending in the U.S. in 2012, and it is expected to retain that percentage of market share for the next five years.
Osaka, Japan's harbor city, announced the end of 60-year sister city relations with San Francisco by its mayor on Wednesday, one day after the death of San Francisco's mayor.
Operators have organized 10 excavators and more than 200 people to build a 1.5-kilometer-long firebreak. The park has started its first-level response, and animals can be transported to safety at any time, park authorities said.
Only 3 percent of China's agricultural imports currently come from France. There are therefore "additional opportunities" for French players in the sector who would do well to better infiltrate the Chinese market or the rest of Asia, Abis said.
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Other than the targeted, customized plan of each family to lift them out of absolute poverty, Kuhn said another impressive aspect of the poverty alleviation effort was how the local officials are "dispatched to impoverished villages to manage poverty alleviation, often for two years. Moreover, Party officials at the front lines in fighting poverty cannot leave their current post and cannot be promoted unless and until they fulfill their specific, numeric, poverty-alleviation goals. We watched local officials being held accountable, their careers at stake".
Other highlights of the festivities will include an Empire State Building Light Show on Feb 13 and Feb 15; a fireworks spectacular over the Hudson River at Pier 84 on Feb 14; the Lunar New Year Dragon Dance & National Dance Institute Year of the Dog Dance at Lincoln Center Plaza on Feb 20; and the New York Philharmonic Lunar New Year Concert and Gala at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on Feb 20.
Only construction projects at state or provincial level can now apply for an adjustment in the existing range of nature reserves, the Shanxi environmental protection bureau said Wednesday.
Only one out of the nine peer-to-peer lending companies in China might be able to survive as top financial regulators are stepping up the pace of scrutiny to curb risks caused by the massive unregulated sprawl in the past few years.The central government plans to maintain "pressing posture of severe attack" to clamp down on activities violating laws and regulations in internet finance, extending the ongoing nationwide crackdown for another year, Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said during a meeting on Monday.The two-year cleanup of the industry was necessitated by a series of scandals that saw investors lose huge amounts of money.His comments echoed earlier remarks by Sun Guofeng, head of the research institute of the central bank, who warned that financial risks are now spreading from traditional sectors to the emerging fintech sector, increasing the risks associated with online cross-region loan operations."Regulators at local levels should adopt new technology such as cloud computing to enhance capabilities in protecting against and resolving cross-market financial risks," he said, during the Bund Summit on Fintech held over the weekend.Having witnessed growth at breakneck pace for years, large number of peer-to-peer lending companies have reaped profits as the nation has "no appropriate regulation in place," according to Huang Yiping, head of institute of digital finance of Peaking University .Many companies may find it hard to survive in the coming months amid the strong push to clean up the sector coupled with pressure from the recent liquidity crunch and an expected large amount of withdrawals.But some experts consider such a scenario expected and normal."The number of companies may shrink to only around 200 to 300," said an expert with a leading internet finance institute, who preferred to remain anonymous.Of the more than 6,000 online lending platforms, only around 1,800 were still in operation at the end of June, according to Online Lending House, an online lending data provider.Internet finance will remain a feasible option to match investors and borrowers, but there should be a transition after the industry expanded at fast pace for long, according to Tang Ning, CEO of CreditEase."Investors should also make a switch while making investments-from past addition to short-term, high yielding products to building long term, balanced portfolios," he said.