Jiang said China had also made a number of scientific breakthroughs in surveying technology such as deep-sea drilling at a depth over 10,000 meters and manned deep-sea submersibles.
Job gains continued to trend up in professional and business services and in health care, the bureau said.
John Koskinen, a former IRS commissioner, told The Washington Post that Social Security payments have long been allowed during shutdowns because they are considered essential to protecting "life and property". Typically, IRS refund payments have not been considered part of that category, he said.
Jiangsu is a major economic engine in the Yangtze River Delta, a region that also includes Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang and Anhui. Compared with more affluent cities in the south, its central and northern parts have had limited access to high-speed railways, creating impediments to public transportation and economic development.
John Hudak, deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution, said the Pence-Harris face-off was the most important in 40 years of vice-presidential debates.
Joanna Nasr, private sector development specialist at the World Bank's Global Indicators Group, said China's tax reforms since 2017 have made tax payments easier, especially by reducing labor taxes and mandatory contributions, and the merging or elimination of tax categories. China moved up the rankings, mainly due to expanded use of electronic tax systems, she added.
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Journalist Erik Nilsson becomes a bamboo-pole porter in infamously hilly Chongqing and hops on hogs with an elderly biker group. He also jumps aboard cruise and cargo ships to discover how the Three Gorges Dam in picturesque Yichang connects the country.
Jin wrote the screen script himself for the film to maintain its originality. He said that Wu Kong's Biography was very hard for a film adaptation and audiences would likely get confused by the convoluted plots, so he focused on the Monkey's rebellion against Heaven, and cut the other plot lines about the Monkey King's master monk Tang Xuanzang, maybe saving it for future sequels if this one succeeds.
Just as the US throws up new barriers to cross-border commerce, its largest trading partner China is redoubling its efforts to seal free-trade agreements.
Jing, 28, has grabbed Western attention with her role in Zhang Yimou's fantasy epic Great Wall, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts' monster thriller Kong: Skull Island.