Last year, the IMF decided to include the RMB in the SDR basket as a fifth currency. It's the first time for the IMF to include a currency from an emerging market economy in its SDR basket.
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Last year, a lithium-battery powered train, with a speed of 60 kph, successfully ran on a 1.4-km test monorail line designed by Zhai's team. So far, it has traveled more than 10,000 km in total.
Last month, Christensen's lawyers asked that the trial be moved to Peoria, from Urbana where the the crime occurred. They cited extensive media coverage, negative online comments and a poll showing 76.5 percent of respondents in the Urbana area were familiar with the case, more than 59 percent of respondents in the Peoria area.
Last month's index declined 9.9 percentage points from July and 0.5 percentage points year-on-year.
Last year, during the traditional Spring Festival, which generally jazzes up consumption and transportation activities, the CPI fell in January. The festival is in the middle of this month this year.
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Last week, China's largest SUV maker Great Wall Motors sent its first batch of secondhand vehicles to countries including Cambodia, Nigeria and Ghana.
Last year, bilateral trade hit .08 billion, an increase of 27.8 percent year-on-year, according to the Foreign Ministry. China exports machinery, automobiles, iron and steel to Ecuador while importing crude oil, bananas and aquaculture products from the South American country.
Last summer, 22 students selected from more than 140,000 members of the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs, visited China on a "discover trip" sponsored by Chinese companies.
Last year, tailored measures were designed for, and implemented in, the country's impoverished areas - including a program that allocates profits from local hydropower plants and mining projects to the local people.