The city cannot fully recover until riders return to mass transit. Without hordes of people flooding into Manhattan five days a week, tax revenues have crashed and punched a huge hole in city and state budgets.
The circular, jointly released by authorities including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said primary and secondary schools should not require students to use plastic book covers, especially those with health hazards.
The city's Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po revealed over the weekend that, according to statistics on hand, the economy continued to contract in the third quarter, and the extent of contraction was magnified.
The central government has now gained enough experience, garnered enough confidence, gathered enough power and possessed enough measures to ensure that the cause of "one country, two systems" can proceed in a stable manner, and that the Constitution and the Basic Law of the Macao SAR can be comprehensively, faithfully and effectively implemented, he said.
The central government will also increase funds transferred to local governments by 12.8 percent to support infrastructure investment and counter economic fallout, Finance Minister Liu Kun told reporters after the opening of the NPC session on Friday.
The city was ranked sixth in economic competitiveness worldwide in The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017-2018.
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The chief secretary for administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has warned that Hong Kong's economic growth may face a "notable impact" later this year or next if a compromise in the on-going trade tensions between China and the United States is not reached soon.
The central parity rate of yuan strengthened 298 basis points to 6.537 against the US dollar Tuesday, the strongest level since May 2016, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
The central auditing committee should strengthen its top-level design as well as planning and coordination, Xi said.
The central bank also took monetary measures, including lowering the lending interest rate and reducing the reserve requirement ratio-the cash amount that financial institutions must deposit at the central bank to maintain ample liquidity.