Several high-profile individuals have attended Fettes, including 2015's Nobel Prize in Economics winner Angus Deaton, Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton, and sinologist Roderick Mac-Farquhar, who served as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
Several key deals were signed and a monthlong cultural event also kicked off.
She added that she thinks there is huge potential for China-Africa cooperation, and the BRI will be the main channel of sustainable development for the two sides during the new era.
Share prices in the A-share market have come to a reasonable level after fluctuations over the past few months, she said. Domestic consumption is showing robust growth, led by the rise in the textiles, garments, cosmetics, and food and beverage sectors. On top of that, the consumption potential in lower-tier cities will be further explored, injecting more vibrancy into the economy and thus stimulating the stock market in the long term, Zhou said.
Shanghai's Party secretary Li Qiang said at a meeting to mark the 200-day countdown to the expo that the CIIE is the first national-level exhibition featuring import, showing China's resolution and responsibility of opening-up in the new era.
Shanghai Customs Deputy Director Zheng Jugang said the city has seen a better result in imports mainly because of the increased price of bulk commodities globally and city dwellers' increased demand for quality of life.
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Several times he went on the Lifeline Express, a mobile hospital set up on a train, with charitable organization the Lifeline Express Hong Kong Foundation. The project reached into remote areas of the mainland, providing free cataract surgeries for patients in need. China accounts for about 18 percent of the world's blind, while cataracts are one of the major causes, according to the World Health Organization.
Shares of iHuman Inc, a leading Chinese online childhood edutainment provider, jumped more than 30 percent on the Wall Street debut Friday, joining the latest in a flurry of IPOs that investors cannot ignore.
Shanghai event reinforced nation's position on global stage
Shanghai can tap into the newly-launched bourse for science and technology at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the further integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region and the development of the Lingang New Area to further boost its artificial intelligence industry, said political advisors during the city's ongoing annual legislative and political consultative sessions.