Years of efforts by Chinese researchers to increase the panda population has paid dividends as the number of captive pandas in the world has now reached 600.
Yao Jian, an analyst with China Securities, said that with a recovery in global trade in 2017, when China's trade value rose 14.2 percent, the Baltic Dry Index, a shipping index measuring change in the transportation cost of raw materials, has risen above 1,200 points from around 950 points at the beginning of last year.
Xu was the controller of a science and technology company and a chemical fiber company based in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province. He fled to the United States in November 2012, the CCDI said.
Yang Jie contributed to this story.
Yang, a Chinese-born Australian, was arrested on Friday by the Beijing State Security Bureau after the approval of prosecutors, ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news conference.
Xuelong will sail out of the floating ice area and into the wide Southern Ocean under favorable weather conditions, and is scheduled to reach the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica on Nov 30.
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Ye, who was born in Guangdong province in 1896 and died in 1946, was one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army and the first commander of the New Fourth Army, one of the main communist forces during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
Yang remembers back then the lunch box was the must-have item on the campus. "We all went to the canteen for three meals a day but there was no cutlery. Everyone carried a lunch box," he said.
Yan Yiteng, partner at IDG Capital, an investor in Jiangxiaobai, said: "What I value mostly is that Jiangxiaobai is a product with a soul. It has unique market positioning.
YANGON - Myanmar's government on Sunday donated 200 tons of rice to China as a humanitarian assistance in the battle against the COVID-19 epidemic.