In 2014, Xinhua reported that a martyr cemetery in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, was selling grave sites for as high as 290,000 yuan (,650). A martyr cemetery in Ya'an, Sichuan province, was surrounded by so many shops that its original gate was blocked and a smaller gate had to be opened at the north end of the cemetery, China National Radio reported last year.
In 1995, when the college began provide funeral-related courses-such as how to write obituaries, cemetery design and embalming-there were no other majors of a similar nature anywhere in the country, and only 120 students were recruited, according to Xiong Ying, a professor at the college.
In 1994, the central government decided to create a two-track system that features government-subsidized housing, aimed at financially strapped families, and commodity apartments for better-off buyers. At almost the same time, China introduced the Housing Provident Fund Program, which allowed potential homebuyers to save part of their income for a future home. It also entitled them to subsidized mortgage rates.
In 2009, Australia's Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation warned of the coming dangers of extreme weather conditions and their impact on bushfires. In a paper titled "Climate Change', the agency said, "For Australia, heatwaves, fires, floods and southern Australian droughts are all expected to become more frequent and more intense in the coming decades.
In 1869, Armand David, a French missionary, became the first European to discover the giant panda in Dengchigou, Ya'an, and he introduced the cuddly bear to the West.
In 1979, Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King, directed by Yan Dingxian, Wang Shuchen and Xu Jingda, became the country's first widescreen color animated movie. An adaptation of a folk tale, it was the first Chinese animated movie to be screened at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival in France.
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In 2016, Huawei became the first Chinese company to be granted 100-percent ownership in Saudi Arabia. Recently it was awarded the first Prize of King Khalid Award for Responsible Competitiveness.
In 2006, he quit his job, returned to the city and opened the restaurant, which seats 200, at the bamboo tree resort.
Imports of various supplies, essentially the raw materials used in manufacturing, remained very robust throughout the period, allowing the manufacturing rebound to happen.
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