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The Shanghai government has announced it will reduce social security premiums for companies by 2.5 percentage points. The move is aimed at helping businesses save money while stimulating the economy. The city will slash the premiums for mandatory pen...
The Boao Forum for Asia will draw to a close today in Chinas southernmost province of Hainan. Under the theme Asias New Future: New Dynamics, New Vision, the four-day event this year witnessed more than 70 formal discussions on inclusive finance, Int...
Yasuo Fukuda -- Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia -- talked about the importance of stable economic growth in China. He said the forum has now become a business card to showcase the development of Asia and China. With its fast economic growth, Chin...
People in Cape Town are given the chance to live like a shark without getting their feet wet. That's part of a high-tech exhibit designed to dispel myths about the sea's deadliest predator. It's been more than 40 years since Jaws hit the big screen -...
The BOAO forum is a high-end platform for dialogues between government leaders, and industrial and business elites from Asia and beyond. This year, it focuses on Asia's new dynamics. Earlier, the Forum's secretary general shared his thoughts. Innovat...
The future economic development in China is indeed a hot topic at the Boao forum. Business leaders and economists both at home and abroad have weighed in on China's economic development. In the 11th five-year plan period, investment growth was 25.5 p...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's state news agency says Pyongyang has successfully tested a solid-fuel rocket engine. KCNA said this has increased the power of the country's ballistic rockets. Pyongyang also claimed last week it had conduc...
The first Mekong-Lancang meeting got underway on Wednesday as representatives of the five countries along the river discussed the drought affecting many of the seventy million people that depend on its waters. But while some in Thailand and Laos have...
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The World Health Organisation's Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti is visiting China, and meeting with Chinese Health Minister Li Bin. CCTV's reporter sat down with Dr. Moeti to discuss new cases of Ebola and Yellow Fever, and how China a...
The first Lancang-Mekong Cooperation leaders' Meeting, themed 'Shared River, Shared Future', has been held in southern China's Sanya city. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, along with leaders from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, attended the...
Japan's controversial new security legislation will become effective next Tuesday. The legislation will allow the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, or SDF, to engage in armed conflicts overseas, and exercise what Tokyo calls the right to collective self-...
The German link with Tongji University goes back to 1907, when the German government and three German physicians founded the Tongji German Medical School. Today the institution stands as a beacon of Chinese-German academic and scientific cooperation,...
