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China sees stable employment growth
Last year, 20 places across the country raised minimum wage by an average of 11 percent. By June 1, 2018, another 8 places have lifted minimum wage by 12.3 percent on average.
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WTO envoys expect China’s bigger role in multilateral trade system
WTO members highlighted the importance of China's contribution to global growth in recent years and expressed appreciation for China's active role in the WTO, Laourou said in the concluding remarks of the review.
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US should assume full responsibility for escalated trade tensions: experts
The trade war was provoked by the US, and China’s engagement in the war is for a peaceful resolution, which cannot be achieved either by stepping aside or by losing the war, said Chen Wenling, chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
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Commentary: China, EU should deepen cooperation to address global challenges
China has pushed ahead its reform and opening up policy, widened its market access, and optimized its business environment with unswerving resolution, providing important chance for deepened China-EU economic and trade ties, a ballast stone of the overall bilateral relationship.
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Commentary: Two-way adjustment leads to smoother operation of world economy
China refuses to accept the characteristics that have been thrown around to describe it, refuting claims that it runs under a system of state capitalism or commercialism, or that it's a market twister. Anyone that doubts China’s open economy status should refer to the white paper, as facts speak lou
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African Development Bank and AfreximBank sign Strategic Factoring project to support African SMEs
Abuja, Nigeria --- The African Development Bank, through its Trade Finance operations, and Afreximbank today signed a Grant Agreement to support the development of factoring (a form of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount) on
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Azuri appoints new Operations Director for East Africa to support expansion plans for pay-as-you-go home solar business
Cambridge, UK– Azuri Technologies Ltd, a leading commercial provider of pay-as-you-go solar home solutions to off-grid consumers, welcomes Collins Oneko who joins as Operations Director, East Africa. Based in Nairobi, Collins joins the company’s Senior Management Team and will apply his in-depth knowledge of sales and distribution to support
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African Development Bank improves ranking in 2018 Global Aid Transparency Index
Bank among top 4 organizations that share transparent and open data on project impact, results, evaluation.
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CPC has nearly 89.6m members
In 2017, the CPC enrolled 1.982 million new members, 71,000 more than in 2016, including 1 million members working in frontline production roles, accounting for 50.8 percent of new intake.
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Political building : An important guarantee for CPC to march from victory to victory
The defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the CPC. The greatest strength of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the CPC. The Party is the highest force for political leadership, Xi said.
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China's poverty alleviation efforts deserve global recognition
"Over the past decades, China has solved the problems of providing food and clothing for more than 1.3 billion people, helping some 800 million impoverished Chinese, a number 70 percent greater than the total number of poverty-stricken people worldwide,” said Sun Zhijun.
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Ethiopian government unblocks 264 websites and blogs
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the new Ethiopian prime minister’s decision to unblock 264 websites and blogs and urges him to go further by completely overhauling Ethiopia’s the most draconian media laws. The unblocking was announced in a tweet on 22 June by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s