In December, the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection launched an investigation of Zhang for "serious violations of Party disciplines".
In July, online commerce giant Alibaba Group rolled out a health insurance program called the Breadwinner Project ("Ding Liang Zhu") in cooperation with Ant Financial Group and the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. The program aims to buy health insurance for registered poor people between the ages of 20 and 60-often the breadwinners for their families-and reimburses medical bills of up to 100,000 yuan.
In December 2015, the central bank first raised the interest rates from nearly zero and hiked three more respectively in December 2016, March, and June this year. It also started to reduce its 4.5-trillion-US dollar balance sheet from October this year.
In Belgium, which is ranked as a country with highest proportion of IPv6 data traffic, the number is more than 50 percent.
In January, Xinjiang's total foreign trade stood at 13.94 billion yuan (about billion), up 11.7 percent year-on-year, according to Urumqi Customs.
In February, Thailand launched a Huawei 5G test network in Chonburi, a province in the country's industrial estates strip along the Gulf of Thailand.
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In Chinese, the word "Jing" means awakening, and "Zhe" refers to hibernating insects. As its name implies, "Jing Zhe", the third solar term in the year, reflects the natural phenomenon of when animals and insects start to reappear.
In December 2012, shortly after he was first elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Xi paid a visit to impoverished Fuping county in Hebei province, where he chatted with farmer Tang Rongbin at his village home.
In December 2018, the first batch of frozen mutton was imported from Kazakhstan, marking the central Asian country exporting meat products to China for the first time.
In January, four homemade-bomb attacks and 15 bomb hoaxes were reported — more than one case every other day on average. No injuries or arrests were reported.