On Monday, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region announced that Xiji, its last county remaining on the poverty list, has been lifted out of poverty.
On Friday, one father leaving the school said he had been there to cancel his son's enrolment and demand a refund.
On May 2, less than a week after President Xi Jinping made a speech promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in which he reiterated the importance of environmental protection, the province's top leaders sailed down the river to assess the layout of industrial clusters and protection measures.
On June 29, the world's first EPR, formerly known as the European Pressurized Reactor, in Taishan, South China's Guangdong province, was successfully connected to the national grid. This was followed next day by the announcement that Westinghouse's Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant in the eastern province of Zhejiang had been successfully connected to the grid.
On Jan 21, two days before the first three cases of COVID-19 in the province were detected, Liu and four of his students stayed up until midnight to discuss the cause and the treatment of the illness from the perspective of TCM.
On Sept 17, Raffarin, together with five other foreigners, was awarded the Friendship Medal by China for his great contributions.
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On Oct 15, a 34-year-old man, surnamed Wang, was sentenced six months in prison by Shanghai Jing'an District People's Court.
On Singles Day - Nov 11 - China's largest e-commerce shopping promotion, 675 million packages were delivered, 26 percent more than on the same day last year and a record for the most parcels delivered in one day.
On Monday, Wuxi in Jiangsu province also raised its threshold for homebuyers, requiring that all homebuyers without household registration, known in Chinese as hukou, in the city should have a record of having paid income tax or contributing to the social security fund for two consecutive years.
On March 23, US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum which could impose tariffs on up to billion in imports from China and instructed the USTR to publish a tariff list by April 6 and provide a 30-day period for written public comment.