In April, the China National Space Administration announced cooperation opportunities for China's sixth lunar mission and its asteroid exploration mission. It also signed lunar exploration cooperation agreements with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Turkey, Ethiopia and Pakistan. James Head, a professor of geological science and planetology at Brown University in the US state of Rhode Island who participated in all the Apollo missions in the 1960s and '70s, said the 50th anniversary of the moon landing "makes us realize that when the astronauts looked back from the moon, they saw no national boundaries, but simply what Carl Sagan called a 'pale blue dot' that was their home planet".
In 2016, processing trade accounted for 44.8 percent of China's exports to the US, in contrast to less than 15 percent in US exports to China, according to Global Value Chain and China Trade in Value Added Database, a Chinese research body.
In August, the China Structural Reform Fund led by State-owned capital joined hands with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Beijing branch and BeiJing Wealth Capital to establish a special fund, which aims to invest in mixed-ownership reform and restructuring of central and local government-controlled enterprises.
In 2017, Canadian farmers planted more acres of oilseed than wheat for the first time, while soybean plantings have more than doubled in the last decade, with sowings forecast by the government to reach a record this year.
In 2017, UK company British Early Education partnered with Chinese investors Largreen Education to open an international kindergarten in Yixing, Jiangsu province. It can serve 300 children.
In 2016, the government introduced the second-child policy, which allowed every couple to have two children. The move was aimed at reversing the decline in the nation's workforce.
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In 2017, the time taken to prepare, file and pay the three major taxes (value-added tax, corporate income tax and labor tax) in China dropped to 142 hours, down 31.4 percent compared with 2016. The number of payments has also been reduced to seven from nine, showing the continued enhancement of taxpayer services, according to the World Bank report.
In Amherst, Massachusetts, home to the University of Massachusetts and Amherst and Hampshire colleges, canceled commencement ceremonies cost the town about million in revenue, according to the local chamber of commerce.
In 2016, over 5,200 people found jobs at 41 cultural parks in Tibet. Their average income was 7,400 yuan (,121). A cultural park themed on Mount Everest will be built in Xigaze this year.
In 2017, 10 of the company's drugs were included on the national medical insurance list. In 2018, four of its cancer treatments were added to the national cancer therapy insurance program.