The official made his remarks in an interview on the sidelines of a food safety conference organized by LUISS University and the Chinese embassy in the Italian capital on Tuesday.
The office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Tuesday sent four working groups to Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guizhou to assist local governments in disaster relief work. That office and the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration dispatched 50 rubber boats to Jiangxi to support their work. Floodwaters have inundated Jiangxi's Ganjiang River, a main tributary of the Yangtze River.
The official purchasing managers index for the manufacturing sector came in at 50.8 for April, versus 52 the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
The number of overseas families adopting Chinese children has declined in recent years, according to data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Wednesday.
The number of domestic trips totaled 5.5 billion in 2018, up 10.8 percent year on year. [Photo/IC]
The number is expected to grow as the first direct air route between Edinburgh and China, run by Hainan Airlines, is scheduled to open in June. The flight will run a twice-weekly service between Edinburgh and Beijing.
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The number of foreign visitors has increased steadily in the last three sessions, Xu said.
The nonstop air link is operated by China Eastern Airlines on a seasonal basis and will feature two roundtrip flights between Pittsburgh and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on Aug 3 and Aug 11.
The number of births in China will continue to decline over the next few years, despite the adoption of the universal second-child policy in 2016, due to a rapidly decreasing number of women of childbearing age and a lack of willingness among people to have more children, Zhai said.
The number of adult smokers in Beijing has fallen by about 200,000 since June 2015, when the city banned smoking in all indoor public places and workplaces, the city's health authorities said last week.