In the beginning, Han felt embarrassed when people gathered round to look at him, but he changed his mind after seeing an obese man dance with ease. "I asked myself, 'Why not give it a try?'" he said.
In the first nine months of this year, China's smartphone shipments slipped 4.2 percent from a year earlier to 275 million units, according to the report.
In the Pacific island nation of Fiji, which is among the countries worst affected by sea level rises and has become a vocal advocate for global climate action, people scoured palm-fringed beaches west of the capital Suva, heaving discarded car tires and engine parts from the coast.
In the COVID-19 crisis, "the medical profession has done its job by providing the facts. But the government, the church and the media have encouraged broad skepticism about essential health measures," the report added.
In the country, New York state has been hit the hardest by the disease, which has reported more than 66,000 cases and 1,218 deaths.
In the first eight months of this year, the average concentration of PM2.5 - hazardous fine particulate matter - in the capital has been 35.5 percent lower than during the same period in 2013, according to data released by the center.
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In the first four months, the company had 886 freight train services to Europe, an increase of 163 percent year on year, according to a report posted on peoplerail.com, China's official railway news portal.
In the first half of the year, enterprises across the country were exempted from paying 576.9 billion yuan (.8 billion) of endowment, unemployment and work-related injury insurance and were allowed to postpone payment of another 43.1 billion yuan.
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, China and Japan are expected to jointly improve the trade and investment environment, and strengthen bilateral ties of industrial chain and supply chain services. Other areas for deepening cooperation include the digital economy, healthcare and green development, experts from the two sides told China Daily on Thursday.
In the US, the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq shed 1.65 percent and 1.96 percent respectively on Tuesday, which were both the largest daily decreases since March 22. The Dow Jones index dropped 1.79 percent, which was the most significant daily decrease since Jan 3.