China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and latest nuclear submarines, destroyers and fighter jets will join the parade, Qiu said.
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Inside Beijing’s must-attend April eventbassador to
Guests like Austrian ambassador to China Friedrich Stift, p
erformances from the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, and reality TV star Allen Wu as
host have made the event the most talked-about on Beijing’s April social calendar.
The dapperly attendees and the venue at the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, a lux
ury hotel in downtown Beijing, will make April 13 a night of waltz, high fashion and haute cuisine.
With tickets priced 1,500 yuan ($224), the ball has sold out every ye
ar during its five-year history in Beijing, according to organizer, the Kempinski Hotel.
In this video interview with China Daily’s website, both the ambassador and Brice Péan, mana
ging director of the Kempinski Hotel, give a preview of what to expect at this year’s ball.
Vehicle sales in China continue to drop, NEV sales rise
hinese sales of passenger vehicles, MPVs, SUVs and minivans in March dropped 12 percent on a yearly basis to 1.78 million units.
This is the 10th consecutive monthly decrease, according to the C
hina Passenger Car Association (CPCA), Changjiang Times reported.
The MPV sector saw the largest sales decline, 20.2 percent to 130,000 units in the pas
t month, while SUVs and sedans dropped 10.7 and 12 percent, respectively.
The decreases in 2019’s first quarter are mild compared with those at the end of the last year, CPCA said.
As the State-VI emission standards will be implemented from July 1 this
year, some Japanese brands have launched corresponding products ahead of their co
unterparts, and performed well in sales and consumer confidence, CPCA said.
“Automobile sales in North China, and those in the county and township level, are still weak,” the association added.
Urgency rises for tackling hazardous wastesipate after
The deadly blast at a chemical plant in Jiangsu province last month that left 78 dead clearly hig
hlights the urgent need to properly handle hazardous waste management in the country.
As central authorities tighten management by revising laws and issuing detailed
policies to support hazardous waste treatment, experts are calling for mandating
that facilities to process such waste be built in all chemical industry parks nationwide.
The explosion occurred on March 21 in Xiangshui county, Yanch
eng, at a Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Co Ltd plant. The accident also injured more than 600.
The State Council, China’s Cabinet, set up an investigation
group and the probe into the cause of the blast is ongoing.
Multiple sources have suggested that the casual handling of hazard
ous chemical waste produced by the company could be a cause of the deadly blast.
China Chemical Industry News reported that the blast originated at
the company’s hazardous waste storage facility, citing a source close to the investigation group.
On the China-CEEC leaders’ meeting, Chen said the
mechanism has made good achievements in economic cooperation over the past several years, including freight trains running between C
hina and Europe. The mechanism should continue focusing on concrete projects in infrastructure and other key areas, she said.
People-to-people exchanges, including education and tourism, should also be stren
gthened to improve mutual understanding between their people, Chen added.
China will take key measures in a new push to improve its cities through boosting the urban pop
ulation and bolstering the nation’s high-quality and stable economic growth, the country’s top economic planner said.
Measures include relaxing residency curbs, promoting investmen
t and financing mechanisms and increasing infrastructure spending in cities.
The National Development and Reform Commission issued on Monday key tasks for 2019’s new urbanizatio
n boost, which will help maintain the country’s sustainable and healthy economic growth and overall social stability.
China aims to increase the urbanization rate by at least 1 percentage point by the end of this year, accordi
ng to a document posted on the NDRC’s website. The proportion of urban population to total population reached 59.58 percent in 2018.
They are both staunch supporters of free trade and mul
ultilateralism, and with the United States increasingly opting for unilateralism in international affairs, China and the EU can str
engthen their coordination within the framework of the United Nations and buttress the role of multilateral mecha
nisms including the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund.
Beijing and Brussels are also two important voices advocating internati
onal efforts to combat climate change and promote sustainable development.
It is hoped that the leaders attending the China-EU Summit in Brussels will send positive signals that the two sides are commi
tted to deepening their strategic and reciprocal cooperation. By strengthening their consensus and solida
rity, they can boost confidence that they will work together to address shared and global challenges.
ation and safety officials Daniel Elwell, Robert
US senators sharply questioned regulatory officials on Wedne
sday about the Federal Aviation Administration’s reliance on Boeing Co’s engineers to cert
ify the safety of the company’s new 737 Max 8 aircraft, which was involved in two fatal crashes in the past five months.
A self-certification procedure called Organization Designation Authorization came under scr
utiny at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee’s aviation subcommittee in Washington. Testifying wer
e Daniel Elwell, acting FAA administrator; Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Saf
ety Board; and Calvin Scovel III, Transportation Department inspector general.
For decades, the FAA has delegated some authority for certifying new aircraft to the manufacturers, reducing government costs.
After the crashes of Lion Air in Indonesia in October and Ethiop
ian Airlines this month, which killed a total of 346 passengers and crew members, critics have ci
ted the self-certification process as evidence of an overly cozy relationship between the FAA and the industry.
More Myanmar parents are willing to send their children
the school because speaking fluent Chinese is necessary for them to work in China or do business with China, Sun said.
The government in Ruili has invested 2.6 million yuan ($388,000) in improv
ing school facilities, including building a new school building, canteen and playground. The sch
ool has established a special foundation with donations from teachers, parents and officers at the insp
ection station to sponsor impoverished Chinese and Burmese students in pursuing their studies, he said.
Ruili, an important land port for southwestern China, is described by a famous Chin
ese song, There is a Beautiful Place, which describes its natural beauty and colorful folklore.
At the school, the students also can be heard singing another so
ng, “Two countries, one school, hand in hand, heart to heart, forever love.”
So far, distinct fossils from the Cambrian explosion with o
outlines of soft tissue have been found at the Burgess Shale in Canada, as well as some by the Chengjiang River in Yunnan province. The
newly discovered fossils provide a completely different ecosystem of organisms that lived around the same time, the study said.
Unlike other Cambrian fossil troves, the Qingjiang biota appears to conta
in a high proportion of jellyfish and comb jellies, which are extremely rare at other sites.
Zhang Xingliang, a professor at Northwest University and co-author of the p
aper, said that compared with the Chengjiang biota in the shallow water along the coast, Qi
ngjiang biota lived in deep ocean, making the two biota complementary in their scientific significance.
“The treasure trove of the Qingjiang biota provides an exciting opportunity to explore how paleoenvironmental conditi
ons influenced ecological structuring and evolutionary drivers during the Cambrian explosion,” said Allis
on Daley, a paleontologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, who was not involved in the study.
The 10 percent deduction rate, which applies to buyers of ag
ricultural goods, will be cut to 9 percent, said the statement.
