In 2001, Chinese researchers with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the CAS discovered thermal-spring gas with a high concentration of helium at an altitude of 4,340 meters, during a geothermal study. They and U.S. researchers with Stanford University in July gathered the gas samples and recently revealed the test results.
In 2014, Wan’s parents urged her not to become a stepmother, especially in a village where marrying a divorced man is frowned upon, and they dissuaded her from marrying Shang — then 29 years old with a 4-year-old son.
In 2016, Chen Yuying, a 24-year-old graduate student of international relations and public affairs at Fudan University, spent four months as an intern at the UN's department of public information.
In 2008, Han staged a charity performance for Wenchuan, Sichuan province, after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the region. This inspired her to found her foundation.
In 1984, Qingdao was designated as one of the 14 Chinese coastal cities to open up to foreign investment as a new measure of the country's reform and opening-up drive which began in 1978.
In 2015, the Ministry of Education and the China Disabled Persons' Federation jointly launched Braille versions of the national college exam, and gave disabled students more time to finish the test - with art school candidates given waiver options.
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Imports of mechanical and electrical products and new nickel and cobalt materials kept a high upward momentum, and imports of metal ore and ore increased. In the first 10 months, the import of mechanical and electrical products reached 2.63 billion yuan, up 18.4 percent year-on-year. Among the products, the import of electrical and electronic products reached 1.71 billion yuan and the import of nickel and cobalt new materials reached 2.11 billion yuan, up 36.7 percent and 78 percent year-on-year, respectively. Meanwhile, the import of metal ore and ore reached 12.94 billion yuan, up 6.8 percent year-on-year, with copper ore and its concentrate imports totaling 9.59 billion yuan, up 8.7 percent year-on-year. The import of zinc ore and its concentrate reached 680 million yuan, up 29.9 percent year-on-year.
In 2015, China surpassed the US as the world's largest e-commerce market, with retail sales reaching 4 billion. So far this year, that figure stands at .5 trillion.
In 1985, Xi, then party secretary of Zhengding county in China's northern province of Hebei, led a five-person delegation to Muscatine in the state of Iowa and stayed with a local family for two days.
Important early harvests have been reaped in implementing the outcomes of the Johannesburg summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which has contributed to the economic and social development of Africa, Xi stressed.