In the first two months, China's exports to the US dropped by 9.9 percent year-on-year to 407.53 billion yuan, while imports amounted to 117.44 billion yuan, down by 32.2 percent. The trade surplus grew by 3.9 percent year-on-year, with volume reaching 290 billion yuan.
In the Pacific region, New Zealand will launch a contact-tracing app on Wednesday to help people track their movements as the country eases one of the world's most rigid lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19.
In the first quarter, the combined net profits of China's centrally administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) soared 26.5 percent to 226.42 billion yuan ( billion), the latest data showed.
In the first five months of this year, their trade volume reached 223.1 billion yuan (.8 billion), increasing by 33.7 percent compared with last year, the ambassador said.
In the Philippine capital, nearly 10,000 people swept across a long stretch of beach on heavily polluted Manila Bay, clutching sacks they filled with rubbish.
In the Yizhuang economic technological development area, a series of enterprises will be settled in the innovation demonstration base of the cybersecurity industry application zone.
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In the ballet company's relatively short yet star-studded history, it has established a close connection with China. It made its China debut in 2000 in Beijing and Shanghai with its production of Romeo and Juliet.
In the first half of this year, Ctrip.com said that the number of flight ticket bookings to Mauritius was the highest among African countries, followed by the Egyptian capital of Cairo, and Casablanca in Morocco.
In the UK, robots began bringing goods to workers in Amazon's warehouses in Dunstable and Doncaster last year. And British online supermarket Ocado has developed some of the world's most sophisticated machine-led warehouses for grocery goods.
In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), migrants from East China's Fujian province brought them to Taiwan. Some settled in Pingxi, a hillside town in the north of the island. Threatened by bandits, they often fled to the mountains. Those left in the town would use lanterns to signal safety and call their families back. They were also called "safety lanterns" or "blessing lanterns".