The city has promoted central biomass heating in five villages since last year, covering more than 3,550 households with a heating area of over 385,000 square meters, according to a report in China News.
The city's meteorological center issued a blue alert for sandstorm Thursday morning, forecasting winds carrying sand and dust across the capital. Many pedestrians in downtown Beijing were seen wearing protective masks.
The center said its main businesses cover organizing the online trading, settlement and delivery of crude oil, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methane, ethane, electricity, carbon trade, new energy products, chemical products and other energy derivatives. And it will also develop business management guidelines, publish market information and provide technical, site and facility services.
The city took top spot nationwide on Taobao Live, the livestreaming arm of Alibaba, according to a report issued by the Hangzhou-based conglomerate on March 30. It is already home to a string of livestreaming platform giants such as Taobao Live, Mogujie and Youzan, and has attracted nearly 400,000 hosts, most of them gathered in Hangzhou's Jiubao subdistrict.
The changes that have taken place in China are phenomenal and unprecedented in global history, said Jon R. Taylor, political science professor and department chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The ceremony in Zhongshan Park, named after Sun, was presided over by Liu Jiaqiang, deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK) Central Committee, and was attended by representatives from all walks of life in Beijing.
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The central government will slap a 25 percent tariff on 106 US goods across 14 categories, such as soybeans, automobiles, passenger airplanes and chemicals, the Ministry of Commerce announced on its website.
The central government has made safeguarding employment a top priority among all targets it aims to achieve in maintaining people's livelihoods, and efforts to help companies stabilize job positions have borne fruit.
The city also introduced a lottery system in 2010 for local residents who want to own a car.
The city has so far implemented more than 2,000 R&D projects above provincial level and filed over 10,000 patent applications.