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Commentary: Development the key to all issues
The trade conflicts between the US and China has attracted worldwide attention after the US administration targeted a wider range of imports from China subjected to the additional tariffs. Admittedly, the trade conflicts have exerted adverse impacts on some export industries or export-oriented enterprises in China, but there is no…
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China’s service trade hit a record high in the first half of 2018
China’s service trade maintained a stable and rapid growth in the first half of 2018, according to the Department of Trade Services and Commercial Services under China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Aug. 7. The country’s service trade hits a record high in the first 6 months this year with…
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China stays calm in second round of trade dispute with US
The US fired the second shot in the trade war by announcing to impose additional 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese products on Tuesday, following on from the 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports effective from July 6th. The newly imposed tariffs will…
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North Korean cosmetics popular in China
Many might doubt the quality of “made in North Korea” products, but some Chinese seem to support them, according to Chinese media. An report on North Korean cosmetics being popular among Chinese online shoppers was posted on a Chinese blog called Zhengzhidao July 15 and has since been shared by…
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[Book Review] Charting China’s Contradictions
The vote by the Chinese National People’s Congress in March to abolish presidential term limits marked a dramatic, if unsurprising, step along President Xi Jinping’s path toward centralizing power. As he moves to entrench his authority at home as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, he also seeks…
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Trade Trap: China and the US Must Avoid a ‘New Cold War’
US President Donald Trump’s trade war against China and the world is subverting the global open trade order and effectively dismantling the World Trade Organization as the universal authority for the resolution of trade disputes. This trade friction, which is not limited to China and the US, has deep…
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Climbing Baekdu Mountain
In 2018, because of the Inter-Korean Summit, the North American summit, and three rounds of North Korea-China summits, Northeast Asia is going through changes. Everything started under the North Korea’s Nuclear weapon’s issue. Many people ask themselves if everything is really happening. Since the beginning of the summer during the…
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Drone delivery makes post services easier in China’s remote regions
By Liu Xuxia from People’s Daily A drone delivering parcels to a remote mountainous village in southwest China’s Guizhou province has caught the eyes of Chinese media. The over-one-meter-wide drone has six propellers, and it is the only drone in this post office used for transporting parcels for villages…
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China to export largest tunneling machine to Bangladesh
By Zhu Dongjun from People’s Daily China’s largest self-developed tunneling machine will be exported to Bangladesh to assist with a river tunneling project, breaking the export monopoly of ultra-large tunneling equipment once held by developed countries. The machine, with a diameter of 12.12 meters and length of 94 meters,…
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Mandarin included in more and more countries’ college entrance exams
By Li Yingyan from People’s Daily Thanks to China’s increasing global influence, Mandarin has been introduced as a subject in more and more countries’ college entrance examinations as an elective foreign language. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science has finished technical preparation works and is…
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