China's cabinet, the State Council, decided on Wednesday to further streamline administration by "separating" business licenses from administrative permits to create a more favorable business environment. The pilot reform, which allows ...
An executive meeting of the State Council, China's cabinet, on Wednesday passed a draft map of administrative divisions demarcating the maritime and land zones of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR). According to the draft, an ...
Tags: Macao, economic growth, demarcation
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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Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
With the approval of the State Council, Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and Director of the Department of Finance of Hong Kong Special Administration Region Government John Tsang Chun-wah signed Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic ...
Tags: CEPA, Hong Kong, Trade in Services
With the approval of the State Council, vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and Secretary for Administration and Justice of Macao Special Administration Region Government Leong Vai Tac signed Mainland and Macao Closer Economic ...
Tags: CEPA, liberalization, trade in services, Macao
Despite receiving numerous criticism from residents, West Berkshire Council defended its multi-million pound LED streetlight replacement project. About 50% of the district’s streetlights were replaced with LED lamps in the scheme, ...
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The East Coast Railway (ECoR) in India has implemented the central government sponsored Domestic Efficient Lighting Program (DELP) in areas under its jurisdiction, reported The Times of India. Under the program, the LED bulbs are ...
As demand for exports continues to slip and the real estate sector cools, China expects consumption and the service sector to help pick slack. The nationwide shopping spree on Single's Day (Nov. 11) offered solid proof of the spending ...
The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
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Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China plans to raise its average life expectancy by two years to 70 in five years, a local official has said. Medical services in rural areas will be greatly improved to achieve this goal, Zeng ...
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The capital of Indian State Karnataka will initiate its LED bulb scheme from Dec. 11, 2015, according to a report from The Times of India. The project to be launched in Mysore will replace 60 million traditional bulbs with LED bulbs to ...
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According to the information of the central government’s website on November 2, a TV and Telephone National Conference on Promoting the Domestic Trade Circulation Modernization was held in Beijing on November 2. The member of the ...
India will be replacing one billion lights nationwide with energy efficient LEDs within three years, The Economic Times quoted a top ranking Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) official saying. Previous reports from India were mostly ...
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Government of India will replace all street lights of the country with LED bulbs in next 24 months. This is in line with the Ministry’s motto of providing energy efficiency and dependable energy in the country. Under Domestic ...
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