The Boao Forum for Asia has decided not to hold its annual conference in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the forum said in a statement on Thursday.
The Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by China in 2013, aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road trade routes to seek common development and prosperity.
The BRI, proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, advocates improved connectivity of infrastructure, trade, ideas and knowledge among countries and regions.
The Beijing observatory issued a yellow alert for torrential rain on Monday morning, warning that accumulative precipitation in Huairou, Miyun, Shunyi, Chaoyang and Changping districts could exceed 100 mm. The observatory also estimated that rainstorms might cause disasters like floods, mountain torrents and geological hazards in mountainous areas of the city. Ponding might occur in some low-lying areas, it added.
The COC will be an upgrade to the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, signed between China and ASEAN member states in November 2002.
The Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, China's busiest high-speed rail, has handled 1.03 billion passenger trips as of Sunday, which marked the eighth anniversary of its operation, according to Xinhua News Agency.
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The CDC told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that "hundreds" more cases of the vaping-related lung disease have been reported to it just in the past week.
The Beijing city government said on Friday that it will lower its public health emergency level against COVID-19 from second-highest to third-highest starting on Saturday. It will also remove the 14-day quarantine requirement for returnees from Hubei province and lift traffic restrictions.
The Beijing-based company, founded in 2013, provides children with one-on-one online English courses, and links teachers from North America with Chinese kids aged 4 to 12.
The CPC released an "eight-point decision" in 2012 to improve Party and government conduct and address the practice of formalities for formalities' sake, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance.