Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics showed China had a population of 249 million aged 60 or above at the end of 2018, accounting for 17.9 percent of the total population.
Stacey Abrams won the party's nomination for governor in Georgia, where she faces long odds in a Republican-dominated southern state testing divergent Democratic strategies.
Starting from October, 2016, school fees for all public kindergartens in the rural area of Xinjiang have been paid by the government. The free-education program started in four regions in southern Xinjiang, including Kashgar, Hotan, Kizilsu Kirgiz and Aksu. It has been expanded to other rural areas.
Spring plowing in China is seeing promising momentum, with the area planted with grain accounting for 21 percent of the annual plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs revealed on Sunday.
State-owned bank leverages big data, internet to increase funding avenues for small businesses
Spreading its tentacles across the Chinese mainland, where flexible working places are in great demand as a vast pool of startups overcrowd the market, WeWork China launched its first location in 2016. Following explosive growth in the past two years, it currently supports 20,000 members spanning almost 40 locations in major mainland cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, as well as Hong Kong, and plans to tap into six other cities this year — first-tiered Shenzhen and second-tiered Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing and Wuhan.
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State-owned COSCO Shipping Holdings lifted 5.49 million TEU (20-foot container units) in the third quarter, a 23 percent increase from the same period last year, surpassing Maersk's 5.26 million TEU, according to Alphaliner data published this week.
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Steel has become the sector that has been hardest hit by China-US trade friction. Before the 232 investigation, which determines what imports pose a national security threat, on steel products, a number of anti-dumping and countervailing measures had been taken by the US against more than 10 categories of Chinese steel products.
Starbucks China joins China Women's Development Foundation to launch a project on May 18, 2020, to offer skill training to more than 1,500 rural poverty-stricken women in the next three years. [Photo provided to China Daily]