2014年CRI 中美战略与经济对话闭幕 湖南幼儿园校车翻入水塘致11死

 

This year's China-U.S Strategic and Economic Dialogue has come to an end.

Headway is said to have been made on a number of fronts.

On the economic track, the two sides say they dealt with upward of 90 different issues, covering areas such as macro-economic policies and finance.

The two sides have also agreed to start working on a Negative List in their attempt to creat a bilateral¹ investment treaty.

The investment treaty talks began in 2008.

On the strategic side, both sides say they had frank discussions when it came to issues such as Cyber Security and the Korean Peninsula.

Eight kindergarten students and three others are dead after a minivan they were riding fell into a pond in central China's Hunan Province on Thursday.

The accident took place at about 5 p.m. in a village near Changsha, the capital of Hunan.

The bus was carrying the children home from their kindergarten, which is located in the city of Xiangtan.

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。