Investment in mining and beneficiation fell 8 percent year-on-year while the smelting and processing sub-sector reported a 3.2-percent year-on-year FAI increase, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information.
Intensifying competition in China's pharmaceutical industry has led to a long-awaited transformation in which more companies have now upgraded and continuously improve their capabilities in developing generics that are better formulated with better delivery systems, while others reinvent themselves as better innovators, said a senior industry expert.
Innovation and start-ups are also a steady source of new jobs and income increase, with 3.34 million new jobs created in the first quarter and the surveyed unemployment rate staying under 5 percent.
Innovation
Investment deals worth .53 billion were inked between Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on cooperation in services, infrastructure construction and finance sectors at the 22nd Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, which concluded on Thursday.
Iran denies role in US embassy violence
阜阳治疗斑秃去那家医院
Investment from the Netherlands surged 73.6 percent, while that from Britain rose 17.2 percent, the data showed.
Investor sentiment has recovered into a wait-and-watch manner, helping the market recoup recent losses over the next one-month period, said a report released by Hong Kong-based BOC International (China) Co Ltd on Sunday.
International cooperation in IPR protection will be enhanced to make it easier for companies to obtain intellectual property rights and their protection overseas.
Iran on Friday announced 17 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the total number of people killed to 124.