lents, instead of regulating the property market. The aim is to attract skilled residents to optimize the demographic mix and boost
The market potential remains huge,” said Dai Bin, direct
or of the China Tourism Academy. “Compared to the United States, w
here 48 percent of its citizens hold a passport, the figure in China is only around 10 perce
nt. It’s estimated that the number of Chinese outbound travelers will reach 230 million in 2030.”
A report published by major Chinese travel agency Ctrip showed th
at 160 million Chinese people have travel plans during the upcoming four-day May Day hol
iday. Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Indonesia are the top destinations outside the mainland.
Malaysia, which receives around 10 million Chinese tourists annually, began to i
ssue e-visas for Chinese in 2017. “The number of visa stickers on passports of Chinese na
tionals dropped by 70 percent in the first year after the service was introduced, showing its high popularity,” said Han.
Since last year, countries including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, Thailand and Sri Lanka have starte
d to accept visa application documents online and issue e-visas, either a bar code or QR code.
hina still faces serious scarcity of water resources. Its
per capita water resource share lags far behind the world average.
An action plan jointly released by the NDRC and the Ministry of Water Resources has
put forward major initiatives to meet the goals, promoting management mechanism of water saving cont
acts and water-saving service industries. job fair is held for foreign students at the University of Inter
national Business and Economics in Beijing on April 18, 2019. Around 1,000 foreign students attended, seeking jobs
Torrential rains have hit many cities in South China’s Guangdong on Friday, bringing traffic chaos.
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport had seen 104 flights canceled, 66 flights delayed for more than
an hour, and 19 flights diverted to other airports by 11:30 am. Huadu district, where Guangzhou’s air
port is located, announced a red signal, the top-level warning for heavy rain, at 11:04 am.
The airports in Shenzhen and Zhuhai have also been affected by the downpour.
Many trains between Guangzhou and Shenzhen were delayed, with stranded passengers waiting at the train stations.
The inland class truly taught me a lot about many new thi
she said. As a fan of music, Tsering was once a singer in a bar and released two singles in Tibetan.
In 2017, she went on a popular talent show called Sing! China and became a sensation in the music industry thanks to her un
ique style of music. Before Tsering, there were no other Tibetan contestants on the show, she said.
“People thought Tibetan singers were all about ethnic music, but I wanted to break that stereotype,” she said.
Liu Hua, with Qinghai’s Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, said China’s favorable eth
nic policies not only brought quality education to students in ethnic areas but also changed their lives.
“These graduates are using their wide range of knowledge and ima
ges to influence people around them and generations to come,” Liu said.
lack of skilled workers and the poor educational foundation in the Tibet autonomous region, the government decide
d to offer classes to Tibetan children. In 1985, the first batch of them went inland to study. Since then, an incr
easing number have pursued studies in more developed areas in China.Tsering Lhakyi, born in the 1990s, was ra
In order to improve the business environment, the Chi
ese government has launched a series of measures to continually reduce burdens for taxpayers, an
d the annual plan for 2019 is to cut 2 trillion yuan ($300 billion) in taxes and fees.
“Effects have been seen recently. In the first two months, 182.85 billion yuan in taxes and fees were furth
er reduced,” Wang said. “The Chinese tax authority will do all it can to achieve the target.”
“International tax cooperation is not and has never been easy. But we
do need a multilateral approach,” said Vitor Gasp
ar, director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund.
“BRITACOM has a role to play in fostering a multilatera
l cooperation approach to taxes, and it can help tax adm
inistrations share best practices and build a foundation for cooperation,” Gaspar said.
The signed exhibitors at trade in service area are Deloitt
PWC, KPMG, Ernst&Young, UPS, DHL, CMA CGM, HSBC, and VALE International.
The food showing area will be 60,000 square meters showing d
airy products, vegetables, fruits, meats, aquatic products, snacks, condiments, liquor and bever
ages, and the exhibitors will include Nestle, Danone, Fonterra, Theland, Dole, Louis Dreyfus and Cargill.
The 12th China Arts Festival will bring a slew of art activities to the Chinese economic and art hub Shanghai.
From May 20 to June 2, more than 50 shows selected nationwide will be perform
ed in 19 major theaters in Shanghai, over 600 artworks will go on display at the China Art Museum, and a fine
selection of creative cultural products will be shown at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. The festival will inclu
de various art forms, such as opera, chamber music, dancing, painting, sculpture and photography.
As 2019 also marks the 70th anniversary of the foun
ding of the People’s Republic of China, this year’s repertoire will be centered aro
und the lives of modern Chinese people as well as the diversified and prosperous art development in the new era.
Information compiled by the NGO from government docum
ents show that at least 162 sources of drinking water across the country have been aba
ndoned or were slated for suspension over the past decade, mostly in the south.
It said many areas in the south must receive water diverted from far
away because of local pollution. For some areas in the north, diversion is chosen beca
use of water shortages. Many places in Jiangsu province have turned to the Yangtze for water.
Previously, cities in southern Jiangsu relied on Taihu Lake, China’s third-largest fresh
water lake, and other local water bodies for their drinking water. This changed, however, after a major outbr
eak of blue-green algae in 2007. The incident forced Wuxi to temporarily suspend water supplies. After the inci
dent, major cities in the Taihu basin turned to the Yangtze for drinking water, the report said.
In Taizhou, located on the north shore of the Yangtze, Xinghua is the o
nly one of six areas administrated by the city that has yet to tap the Yangtze for its drinking wat
er. But a diversion project from the river was listed on the Xinghua government’s agenda last year.
Luckin recorded 375 million yuan in revenue while
the loss and gross margin were 875 million yuan and -433 million yuan in the first nine months of last year, according to NetEase, citing the firm’s financing plan.
In April, the firm mortgaged its movable properties in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu to raise money.
Earlier reports, including by Reuters, said the coffee chain had tapped Credit Suisse to w
ork on an IPO to raise $300 million on the US market as soon as in the second quarter of this year.
On April 10, Luckin announced plans to build new stores in ano
ther 14 Chinese cities and start selling tea-based beverages to satisfy customers’ diverse demands.
There are no more than 20 paintings ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci the Renaissance polymath and genius by art historia
ns around the world. And the majority of these works, housed at top museums worldwide, easily draw huge crowds.
Now, recent developments in high-definition reproduction technology are providing easy access to appreciating these paintings.
d Records as the world’s longest with dual r
ad and rail functions.In 2014, it was listed as an Immovable Cultural Relic under State Coun
cil-designated protection, and two years later as part of China’s 20th century architectural heritage.
Yang Tao, director of the Nanjing Institute for Urban and Tran
sportation Planning and Design, said it was extre
mely hard to build the rail section of the bridge because of limited skills and technologies.
“But many bridge-building technologies were subsequently invented and these have not beco
me outdated, even today. Completion of the bridge has played an important role in the economic and cultural e
xchanges between areas north and south of the Yangtze, and even unified governance of the country,” Yang said.
People had dreamed of building a bridge spanning the Yangtze for years.
In 1908, the rail line from Shanghai reached Nanjing
The rail link between Tianjin and Nanjing’s Pukou district－the Tientsin-Pukow Railw
