The city of San Jose, California, is exploring methods to encourage residents and businesses to produce less waste while renegotiating with waste recycling contractors.
The central bank has increasingly relied on open market operations for liquidity management, rather than cuts in the benchmark interest rates or reserve requirement ratios.
The changes have come about as China began boosting the total potato cultivation acreage, making the tuber one of the country's top staples to better ensure food security under the pressure of dwindling farmland, water and labor assets, among other issues. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, China will have more than 6.67 million hectares of potato planting areas by 2020.
The circular stressed support for manufacturers of agricultural materials to resume production as soon as possible, increase market supply and ensure demand will be met during the spring plowing season.
The central government has made it clear, on many occasions, that it will unswervingly implement "one country, two systems" and ensure it is fully applied in Hong Kong without being bent and distorted, Lam added.
The city's prosecutors approved the arrest of Sun, 55, on a charge of intentional homicide on Dec 27.
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The center of the hurricane's eye came ashore at about 0715 EDT near Wrightsville Beach close to Wilmington, North Carolina, with sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (150 kph), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
The city cracked down on 236 cases of online drug crimes last year, arresting 278 suspects and seizing 10.2 kilograms of illegal drugs, Tao said.
The central bank skipped open market operations Saturday, which led to a net withdrawal of 270 billion yuan (.6 billion) from the money market this week.
The central authority in 2014 decided to establish 172 major water conservation projects in seven years. To date 134 of the 172 projects have been approved, while 132 have started construction, including 23 already completed, said Wang.