Local public security bureaus are monitoring the market. Investigations have uncovered nearly 300 illegal rental businesses, and people involved have been punished.
Local governments followed suit and the pace of opening up became faster after the Ministry of Civil Affairs listed opening China's elderly care service market as a key task for this year.
Lixil, a maker of leading water and housing products, recently launched a new research and development facility in Shanghai, allowing the company to cater to its largest potential consumer base-the Asia-Pacific region.
Locals living here have long suffered poverty, and many chose to leave their hometowns to earn more money. Sun had worked in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as a plumber for seven years to make more money to support his family.
Local residents have picnics at Chaoyang Park in Beijing on April 2. [Photo by Li Na/For China Daily]
Long lines of traffic could be seen across Hong Kong Island leading into the heart of the business district, and hundreds of people were stranded at the airport. Roads into the city were paralyzed.
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Located on the ground floor of the Muji Hotel Beijing that opened six months ago, the compound in the historic old Beijing district near Tiananmen Square has been doing brisk trade, due no doubt to Muji's renown for its functional stationery, simplistic aesthetics of homewares and clothes. But the eatery has failed to make a splash on foodies' must-eat list. That is not until recently, when it made some big culinary adjustments.
Local authorities across China are urged to take more measures to ensure safe driving of buses and strengthen guardrails on bridges to prevent accidents, according to a guideline released by the Work Safety Commission of the State Council.
Local media reported that thousands of National Guard troops were deployed to respond to the growing unrest.
Liu will visit Washington in early April for further consultation, the ministry said.