The nitrogen oxides emissions of the renovated ship have been reduced by more than 80 percent, said the administration.
The number of people investigated for environment-related crimes has also increased, according to the work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, which also was delivered on Friday.
The official made his remarks in an interview on the sidelines of a food safety conference organized by LUISS University and the Chinese embassy in the Italian capital on Tuesday.
The old foreign investment legislation allows local governments to set their own policies to promote foreign investment. Zhou said it is important for the new law to prevent unfair competition at the regional levels, and the law clearly stipulates what to implement and what to avoid, including some local industrial policies, in order to give confidence to foreign investors.
The office also voiced support for China's sanctions against 11 US politicians and organization heads with "egregious behavior" on issues concerning the Hong Kong SAR, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
The northern city of Taiyuan was the latest to further tighten the housing market in mid-October, banning home sales within two years of purchases, following similar moves by eight other cities in late September.
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The number of Chinese firms listed on the US exchanges has increased in recent years. As of Wednesday, the S&P US Listed China 50 index, which is designed to track the performance of the 50 largest Chinese companies listed on US exchanges by total market cap, stood at 3,063.65, marking a 33.71-percent gain for the year-to-date returns.
The next round of negotiations on the investment agreement between the European Union and China is going to be held next week, Gao Feng, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular news briefing on Thursday.
The on-water test flight was carried out Saturday morning in the city of Jingmen of Central China's Hubei province.
The number of tourists visiting the tropical island continued to increase rapidly in the first three quarters, with the central and western regions seeing faster growth than the traditional eastern areas, said Wang Yuan, deputy director with the Hainan provincial statistics bureau.