Whitford became so enamored with the art form that he went to get his first tattoo after leaving the prison to work as a water treatment plant operator. He now has eight tattoos, all of different styles, on his body.
Wine is becoming popular among young Chinese people as they think it is cool, sophisticated, and quite unlike the beverages that their parents used to drink. Wine is finding acceptance with female drinkers as it is not as filling as beer and not as harsh as other spirits, said Tommy Keeling, research director for Asia-Pacific at International Wines and Spirits Record, a market research firm that focuses on the liquor industry, during a recent webinar.
With a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, the project is expected to generate more than 60 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year, equal to about two-thirds of Beijing's electricity consumption in 2015.
With a population of almost 100 million, Henan has since become a major exporter of labor. The draining away of younger workers seriously impacted a number of impoverished counties, such as Lankao, that remained on the national list of poverty-stricken counties until last year.
With Thursday's drops, the benchmark S&P 500 and the Dow industrials confirmed they were in correction territory, both falling more than 10 percent from Jan 26 record highs. The S&P 500 slumped 3.8 percent on Thursday, while the Dow dropped 4.2 percent as losses accelerated late in the trading day.
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With China also committing .4 trillion to new technology over the next six years as part of its post-COVID-19 recovery plan, the world's second-largest economy is moving from being a rapid basic-process innovator to one making blue-sky breakthroughs in a number of fields.
With 50 villagers in 21 households, Shenshan has been officially taken off the list of impoverished areas together with the Jinggangshan region earlier this year, as the number of people who live under the poverty line here has fallen below 2 percent.
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With APEC members making up a significant portion of the world's GDP and global trade, better economic growth prospects in APEC, supported by continued expansion of manufacturing, exports and investment, boded well for the global economy, said Lee Heng Guie of Malaysia's Social Economic Research Center (SERC).