The nine areas have seen more than a threefold increase in cases in the past several weeks. They are in Brooklyn and Queens, have at least 500,000 residents, 7 percent of the city's population, and all are large Orthodox Jewish communities that have been slow to wearing masks. The mayor said 11 other ZIP codes that have seen a rise in cases could face new restrictions if things don't improve.
The official survey mainly samples large companies, while the Caixin survey mainly covers small and medium-sized enterprises, especially those in eastern coastal regions.
The on-and-off courtships, witty banter and ribald puns exchanged between a couple in the rom-com Love off the Cuff is currently tickling viewers' fancies across the border.
The number of giant pandas living in Belgium has risen to five with the birth of the twin cubs in August.
The number of reported deaths nationwide climbed by more than 1,000 for a fifth consecutive day on Saturday, a trend last seen in mid-August, according to a Reuters tally.
The offering of the 400 public rental units is the first wave of a pilot project that aims to help people without Beijing household registration. In the pilot, 30 percent of public rental housing and price-fixed housing will be allocated to people without Beijing hukou.
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The next step to support the corporate sector is to inject more long-term capital, through target reduction of the reserve requirement ratio in a special group of banks which have lent a certain amount of credit to small-and medium-sized enterprises, said Liu Guoqiang, vice-governor of the PBOC.
The number of senior residents will rise to 5.3 million by 2020, according to the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau.
The news media, frequent targets of Trump's, also faced a backlash.
The number of top 500 private companies that experienced difficulties in financing continued to grow from 254 companies in 2017 to 274 last year. Up 96 percent of the top 500 private companies believe the epidemic affected their production and operations.