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A number of entrepreneurs from across the world
showed their innovative ideas, hoping to gain acc
ess to potential investors, mentors and business partners through the platform.
Wang Zhigang, minister of Science and Technology, said China
will further open up and strengthen international coop
eration in technological fields to promote a favorable environment for global talent.
The two-day event, with an exhibition area of 70,000 square meters, attracted more
than 4,000 professional organizations, training agencies, universities, tec
hnology enterprises and human resource agencies from 52 countries and regions across the world.
About 110,000 visitors were at the conference.China uses high-tech measures for cultural heritage protection
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Almost 500,000 international students in China in 2018
Almost 500,000 international students studied in China in 2018, earlier slight increase on 2017, the Ministry of Education said Friday.
A total of 492,185 international students from 196 countries and region
s studied in China last year, up 0.62 percent on the previous year, the ministry said in a statement.
South Korea ranked first in the number of students sent to China last year, with 50,600 students, followed b
y Thailand with 28,608, Pakistan with 28,023, India with 23,198, and the United States with 20,996.
The number of students pursuing academic education increased
6.86 percent year-on-year to 258,122, accounting for 52.44 percent of the total.
Students studying for master’s and doctoral degrees increased by 12.28 percent to 85,062, the ministry said.
Most international students in China have been self-funded, accounting for 87.19 percent of the total, it said.
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Qu Ting, general manager of supply chain finance at
he bank, said: “Using big data, artificial intelligence and internet technolo
gies, we built a platform based on real transactions to meet the financing needs of private
enterprises, and realized synergies between finance and industries via smart risk management.
“Enterprises need a series of services, including financing, settlement, asset management and sup
ply chain management. Our bank is looking to offer comprehensive financial solutions, not just f
inancing solutions, so as to join hands with companies in building industrial chains and ecosystems.”
Shi Jie, executive vice-president of China Minsheng Banking Corp, said
far-reaching changes have taken place in terms of the market and clients in the past t
wo years. Bankers now have a deeper sense that the financial demands of private enterprises have eased.
“The biggest challenge is whether or not we really know our clien
ts. Only by truly understanding our clients will we be able to provide the right financial solutions that
meet the needs of private enterprises and offer them a superior customer experience,” Shi said.
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Yu has been forbidden to supervise any postgraduate can
didates and the university has asked education authorities to remove his academic title. He was removed from his post in October, it said.
After students were interviewed in March 2018, Zhang and the other three school officials held a mee
ting to determine which students would be enrolled, during which they changed the 10 students’ scores, it said.
The university will change the student enrollment according to the initial results of the interview, it added.
The Ministry of Education has given an administrative warning to Wang Yingjun, who was president of the university last year.
Li Zheng, vice-president of the university, has been given a demerit f
rom the ministry, while The ministry has criticized Zhang Xichun, Party secretary of t
he university, and Liu Qijin, deputy Party secretary of the university, it said on Thursday.
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He made the decision to exit the public hospital sys
tem and become an independent practitioner in the hope of providing better treatment to patients and earning a higher income.
Today, Zhang is not only a vascular surgeon, but also the founder and head of Dr. Smile M
edical Group, China’s first group medical practice, which he established in Shanghai in July 2014.
Back then, group practices, in which doctors partner together to offer medical servic
es to patients and share operational costs, was a fairly new concept in China.
But in many other countries such as the United States, group medical practices are c
ommon for doctors who work independently instead of being employed by hospitals.
Since 2014, group practices have sprung up across China, and many established doctors have left hospitals to start their own practices.
A recent example is Zhou Yuehua, one of the most acclaimed eye surgeons in China, who made headlines when he left the re
puted Beijing Tongren Hospital at the end of 2018 and founded Zhou Yuehua Myopic Doctor Group in Beijing.
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the Binhai-Baoding expressway which opened in 2017 and
the Beijing-Qinhuangdao expressway that was thrown open to traffic last year have formed a “on
e-hour traffic circle” around Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding in Hebei. Besides, due to stricter enviro
nmental protection measures, the emission of sulfur dioxide in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has reduced by 61 perce
nt from 2011 to 2017, and PM2.5 concentration in the five key cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao and Bao
ding has drastically dropped. In fact, the average PM2.5 concentration in the region has fallen by about 40 percent from the 2013 level.
Also, the withdrawal of roaming charges for the use of cell phones within the Beijing-Tianjin-H
ebei region in 2015 has facilitated the movement of people, and the integrated customs reform that has re
duced the average customs clearance time by 41 days has been helping boost the regional economy.
Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have jointly implemented 24 collaborative standards in fields such as transp
ortation, production safety, environmental protection and logistics. But despite making remarkable progress on multiple fro
nts, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region still faces many challenges which the authorities need to urgently solve.
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Wang Yan, a businesswoman from Chengdu, capital of neig
eighboring Sichuan province, moved to Dali in 2014. She is among thousands of newcomers
who operate guesthouses around Erhai Lake, which offers stunning views that provide an escape from urban life.
The 50-year-old, who now wants to leave the city and return to her hometown, said her decision
to operate guesthouses in Dali had turned out to be a mistake, as it had left her heavily in debt.
She ran a garment company in Chengdu before moving to Dali, and the annual revenue from
this business was about 400,000 yuan. She and her family lived quite a good life, she said.
Like many of her peers, Wang was attracted by the scenery around Erhai Lake, and u
sed her capital to open a lakeside guesthouse business by leasing land from local farmers to build her own premises.
In 2014, she invested 6 million yuan in an 18-room guesthouse in Shuanglang township close to the lake.
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The United States principals will be accompanied by Dep
eputy USTR Jeffrey Gerrish and other senior officials from the USTR Office and the Department of the Treasury.
“The United States looks forward to welcoming a delegation from China led by Vic-P
remier Liu He for meetings in Washington starting on April 3,” the statement said.
The message echoed an announcement by China’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday that the two sides will start the eigh
th round of trade talks in Beijing, followed by the ninth round in Washington early next month.
The two sides have recently had several phone conversations on eco
nomic and trade issues and agreed on the schedule, according to ministry spokesman Gao Feng.
Negotiations led by Vice-Premier Liu and USTR Lighthizer from Feb 21 to 24 in Washington yielded “substantial prog
ress” on specific issues such as technology transfer, protection of intellectual property rights, non-tariff barri
ers, services industry, agriculture and exchange rates, according to a statement from the Chinese delegation.
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After hitting Mozambique, Cyclone Idai tore into Zimbabwe
killing many people as they slept.
The 83-year-old husband of one Chimanimani resident was buried alive when their bedroom collapsed on them last Friday.
”We were sleeping in the house around 10 p.m. in the evening and it was raining. It
kept on pouring when rocks sliding from the hill started hitting our house,” said the 59-year-old.
”The stones we built our house with collapsed on us, and then I yelled, ‘oh my, I’m dying!’ The soils had
filled my mouth, nose and ears. Water filled the house to almost my neck level … I started to shake my husband’s body to no avail. He was alrea
dy dead.”People carry Chinese rice from a warehouse surrounded by water after Cyclone Idai hit the area, in Beira, Mozambique.
Nearby, another family had abandoned searching for their 16-year-old missing son, who they suspect is buried under the mud.
Efforts to bring aid to those affected by Cyclone Idai are under way in Zimbabwe. Pres
ident Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is airlifting food to some of the areas where people are still trapped.
Mnangagwa has declared March 23 and 24 national days of mourning.
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The UK essentially now has three options, and each come
with increasingly urgent logic.
Option one: Approve the Withdrawal Agreement. The UK will then leave the EU on May 22 and enter the transition period. More on that later.