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“Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room. While wind and rain may be kept outside, that dark room will also block light and air. No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war,” Xi stressed.
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China's quota shares rose to 7.921 percent in 2016, up from the previous 5.148 percent after the UN adopted a new conventional budget allocation. Based on the new quota, China contributed $196 million to the UN regular budget in 2016 and $199 million for 2017.
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China still has a long way to go before it completely eradicates poverty. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China still had 55.75 million rural residents living under the poverty line at the end of 2015.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, while delivering a recent keynote speech at the UN's Geneva headquarters, announced that China will provide 200 million yuan ($29.18 million) of humanitarian assistance to help refugees and the homeless in the Syrian crisis.
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China has established 2,740 nature reserves, covering a land area of 1.42 million square meters, accounting for 14.8 percent of the country's territory. A diversified nature reserve network with appropriate layout has taken shape.
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A Financial Times report said that the value of Chinese third-party mobile payments has tripled to 38 trillion yuan in 2016, nearly 50 times greater than that in the US in the same period. About 60 percent of Chinese consumers who use mobile payments enjoy paid via mobile apps every week, although m
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China reported a non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) of 53.27 billion RMB ($7.73 billion) in January this year, reaching 983 overseas enterprises in 108 countries and regions, said the latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
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Foreigners from certain countries could stay as long as 144 hours visa free in Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai. Over the last year, there were 56.53 million entries and exits of foreign citizens, up by 8.89 percent than the previous year.
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Data shows that, so far, Chinese enterprises have invested more than $50 billion in countries along the “Belt and Road” routes. In the first three quarters of 2016, China-Pakistan trade reached over $14 billion, and the value of newly signed engineering contracts by Chinese enterprises in Pakistan h
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China will roll out favorable policies to reduce access restrictions for foreign investment and encourage foreign investment into the country's central, western and northeastern regions.
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Baidu is not only one of China's top three Internet companies, but also a notable one in the world. Its CEO Robin Li, at the annual sessions of National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2015, called for the development of artificial intelligence by introduc
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A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. This crisis has been largely overlooked. Norway, together with Germany, Nigeria and the UN OCHA, is therefore seeking to mobilise greater international attention, involvement and increased funding for humanitarian efforts to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.