In 2013, Beijing adopted more systematic and intensive measures to deal with the environmental challenge. By the end of 2017, the capital reported a 35 percent fall in PM2.5 fine particulate pollutants and the surrounding Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region recorded a 25 percent drop in the particles. Much of the reduction was attributed to measures aimed at controlling coal-fired boilers, the provision of cleaner domestic fuels and industrial restructuring. Over the same period, annual emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, PM10 particulate matter and volatile organic compounds in Beijing also decreased significantly.
Illegal financial activities will be punished stringently, and a campaign will be launched targeting risks involving internet finance and online lending activities, the statement said.
Imports and exports to and from countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative were valued at 197.6 billion yuan, accounting for 27.8 percent of the city's total.
Ilya Cheremnikh, from Israel, founder of the Culture Yard Chinese-language school in Beijing, said: "As for Israel, it is somewhere in between China and the US and Northern Europe. Families are still quite close-knit, and it is very common in Israel to meet every Friday for dinner as well as on major holidays with the whole extended family."
In 2015, the industry output value amounted to 424.5 billion yuan, up 21 percent year on year, while exports of LED products came in at billion, rising 15 percent as China's LED industry is more and more reliant on overseas markets.
In 2016, China's water consumption dropped from 610 billion cubic meters to 604 billion cubic meters, and consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP was down by 7.2 percent.
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Impoverished residents of bleak backwaters in Tashikurgan Tajik autonomous county have been relocated to Tati Kuli, a government-supported settlement that offers better conditions for farming and higher standards of education and healthcare.
Ildefonso Guajardo, economy minister of Mexico, said the US tariffs would affect billion in trade between the two countries.
Imported products were a luxury in China forty years ago. Finding them was difficult: Paying for them was next to impossible.
In 2016, Qingdao had the worst peak-hour traffic jams in China, according to a report by domestic navigation company Amap and the Ministry of Transport's Scientific Research Institute.