China aims to lift over 10 million rural people out of poverty in 2016, so as to make a good start for the next five years, according to a poverty relief meeting on Thursday. The next year's work will integrate the central and local ...
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21 Dec 2015 Tobacco giant Philip Morris has lost its fight against the plain packaging laws that it claimed would threaten the intellectual property of its brands. The company behind Marlboro, Peter Jackson and Longbeach cigarettes has ...
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China will continue to actively destock its massive property inventory over concerns that the ailing housing market could derail the economy. Along with cutting overcapacity and tackling debt, destocking will be a major task in 2016, ...
China will deepen structural reform of rural industries and upgrade the integrative development of agricultural, industrial and service sectors in rural regions. The measures are key to promoting the modernization and urbanization of ...
China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...
A Melbourne dairy processor is embedding laser coding into infant formula tins heading to China to reduce the risk of contamination. The tins from Camperdown Dairy International (CDI) will each have a unique identifier showing details of ...
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A photo shows the household register of China. [Photo: cctv.com] There have been heated discussions over a planned points-based residence registration system in the Chinese capital that accommodates over eight million non-locals. The ...
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Land transfers are flourishing in Jinzhou, some 260 km south of Beijing, catalyzing mushroom growth of specialized cooperatives, authorities have said. "About one-tenth of farmers have joined market-oriented cooperatives in Jinzhou and ...
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The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday unveiled its major economic tasks for 2016, the first year of the country's 13th Five-year Plan. To reduce housing inventories, more migrant rural workers should be issued with urban-residency ...
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China aims to cover all its urban and rural areas with 4G network by 2018, according to an action plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday. The country also plans to install fiber optics in ...
Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, briefs the media on China's plans to achieve the goal of poverty alleviation in the next five years on Tuesday, Dec.15, 2015. [Photo: ...
Electricity will be available in all ethnic regions of southwest China's Sichuan Province by the end of December, Sichuan Energy Administration announced Wednesday. With the country's largest Yi ethnic region and second largest Tibetan ...
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Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
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The UK fishermen will now be able to apply for a share in the €243m new European Maritime and Fisheries Funding (EMFF) to mold their businesses according to the modified Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which intends to aid their ...
China's drone producers are heading to the countryside as the government steps up restrictions on drone management in cities. A provisional regulation on operating light-duty civilian drones, which will ban small unmanned aerial vehicles ...
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