In fact, one hotel has even engaged a certified Santa Claus from Finland to up the ante in novelty factor.
In an emotional speech, North Dakota first lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum shared her 16-year struggle with alcohol addiction and encouraged people to show empathy and compassion for those battling addictions.
In another development, Geng said on Tuesday that China is firmly against a recent meeting between the 14th Dalai Lama and Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
In addition, two antibody detection kits jointly developed by Wuhan Institute of Virology and a pharmaceutical company have started production and will soon be put into the market.
In breakdown, sales of welfare lottery tickets declined 12 percent from one year earlier to 15.69 billion yuan, while sports lottery sales sank 13.8 percent to 20.7 billion yuan.
In face of even more uncertainties related to US-China trade tensions, once the first half economic report slips off the policymakers' expected zone, a series of policies, especially in terms of monetary and fiscal policies, will debut later this month to stabilize growth and ease market sentiment, analysts said.
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In addition, to improve working conditions, the government has proposed increasing the number of statutory holidays, or labor holidays, from 12 to 17 days a year, Lam said.
In an early April gathering in Haikou celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of Hainan province and the Hainan Special Economic Zone, the central government unfolded a plan to support Hainan in developing the whole island into a pilot free trade zone as well as gradually exploring and steadily promoting the establishment of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics.
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Eric Topol, a scientist at the renowned Scripps Institute in California, called a groundbreaking electronic chip developed by Chinese scientist a "breakthrough".
In face of deepening changes to the global governance structure, one of the world's most remarkable challenges within 70 years, China needs to reconsider the future's global governance system and the role it can play in that framework, through continually promoting opening up and to raise governance plans as well as an all-around development strategy, said Zhu Min, head of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University, at the same seminar on Saturday.