Palliative care is a relatively new concept for China. And in 2015, the Economist Intelligence Unit, an advisory and research company in Britain, ranked China 71 out of 80 countries for quality of death.
PYONGYANG - China hopes that the dialogue between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States will be smooth and achieve substantial progress, said visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi here Wednesday.
Participants agreed to continue to adopt a prudent and neutral monetary policy and a proactive fiscal policy, maintain "reasonable growth of credit and social financing scale", and keep the renminbi's exchange rate "basically stable at a reasonable equilibrium level".
Participants at Wednesday's meeting also decided on adjustments to the export tax rebate rates of certain goods and services and to the tax deduction rate of purchases of farm produce. They decided to increase transfer payments to local governments, focusing on supporting the central and western regions and counties and prefectures experiencing difficulties.
Paal Kibsgaard, chairman and CEO of Schlumberger, said that on the supply side, the extension of production cuts led by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia are already translating into higher-than-expected inventory draws.
Participants agreed that strengthening control of the debt levels of State-owned enterprises is an important move to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress and promote the deleveraging and prevention of debt risks of such enterprises. Internal corporate governance and external control of risks should be combined, and a mechanism for controlling the asset-liability ratio of State-owned enterprises should be established and improved, they said.
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Partly due to a boost from robust emerging industries, the northwestern region posted stellar year-on-year GDP increase of 8.6 percent in the first half of the year, outpacing the country's 6.9 percent. The biopharma industry boomed more than 30 percent from a year ago in the region.
PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has urged the Republic of Korea (ROK) to start dialogue without making Pyongyang stopping its nuclear and missile programs as a precondition.
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