Last year in December, it rolled out full-scale operations in Nigeria and Uganda after operating in the Kenyan market for three years.
Last year, the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements said the yuan's share of international currency transactions was just 4.3 percent, compared to 88 percent for the US dollar.
Last year, the bank achieved stable development despite rising domestic and international risks and challenges in a complicated situation. It recorded 313.4 billion yuan (.16 billion) in net profit, representing an increase of 4.9 percent from the previous year.
Last August, China Unicom announced that Baidu would invest 7 billion yuan in the company for a 3.3 percent stake. Tencent invested 11 billion yuan and gained a 5.18 percent stake, with other investments coming from Alibaba and JD.
Last month, China announced plans to open the automobile sector wider to foreign investment, with a timetable to phase out the shareholding limits for foreign investors.
Last year, the University of Washington and the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing jointly set up the Global Innovation Exchange in Seattle, Washington, which offers graduate technology degrees for students from the United States and China.
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Last year, Hong Kong's GDP grew 3 percent to HK.845 trillion (2.8 billion), equivalent to 2.4 trillion yuan based on the average annual exchange rate, according to the government's Census and Statistics Department. Shenzhen, meanwhile, surpassed Hong Kong for the first time by about 22 billion yuan to lead the Greater Bay Area.
Last year's sales revenue was 236.05 billion yuan (.14 billion), up 7 percent. Forty percent of it was generated overseas as Weichai's products are sold in more than 110 countries and regions.
Last month, South Korea's presidential Blue House said that South Korea and the United States had agreed to hold a summit meeting in late June in Washington.
Last year, 93.9 percent of students in compulsory education successfully graduated, and the illiteracy rate among young and middle-aged adults dropped to 0.52 percent, he said.