Wang said in the past five years, China has transformed its development pattern, optimized its energy structure and pushed for progress in energy conservation and emission reductions in key industries.
Wang joined the Guangzhou Railway Group in 2016 after graduating from a transportation school in Heilongjiang, his home province.
Wang made the remarks during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly high-level events week.
Wang Qianni, an anthropology postgraduate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, argued that young people and the media today view China's dancing grannies with "tainted glasses". After interviewing 20 square dancers over the course of six months in 2013, Wang wrote in her thesis The Making of Guangchang Wu (square dancing) Stigma that the activity has become the butt of the joke in many talk shows.
Wang Zi'an practices viola with his teacher Hou Donglei in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Wang is one of the hoards of millennial Chinese consumers jumping onto the buy-now-pay-later bandwagon.
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Wang Xu, chief analyst at Chinese gaming industry database Gamma Data Corp, said China's "demographic dividend" - the era of uninterrupted supplies of young, cheap Chinese labor - is gradually drawing to a close as the population ages.
Wang Lu, an Asia-Pacific oil and gas analyst at Bloomberg, echoed her views. She said PetroChina's earnings may have surged by 107 percent to 122 percent year-on-year to 1 billion yuan in the first half due to improving exploration and production margins on the back of the oil price rally.
Wang is under both disciplinary and supervisory investigations, according to the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the national supervisory commission.
Wang made the remark during his meeting with Laotian Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Vientiane on Thursday.