The 31 institutions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will offer 150 postgraduate scholarships ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 pounds in fields such as engineering, law and biosciences.
The 34-year-old farmer from Shihugou village of Luobei county, Heilongjiang province, had managed to support her elderly parents-in-law and school-age daughter while her husband worked in nearby cities. But a car accident in 2014 left her husband bedridden and shattered all her expectations for a better life.
The 68-year-old kicked off his career in 1968. He was appointed secretary of the Anhui provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission in 2000. One year later, Zhao started to work in the same position in Shaanxi province, and he became the Party chief of the province in 2012.
The 23rd China Beijing International High-Tech Expo will for the first time be held together with the forum, showcasing the latest technological achievements to the world.
The 389-km section of the Zhengzhou-Chongqing line, which linked Zhengzhou and Xiangyang in Hubei province, was also put into use on Sunday.
The 26-kilometer-long XRL, which expected to be opened in the third quarter of next year, will shorten the commute between Hong Kong and Guangzhou from two hours to less than 50 minutes, enabling more efficient exchanges within the 11-city cluster of the Greater Bay Area.
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The 265-kilometer line, linking Zhejiang's capital Hangzhou with Huangshan in Anhui province, opened to traffic on Dec 25. It shortens the travel time between the two places to one-and-a-half hours from the previous over three hours, linking seven national 5A scenic areas in Zhejiang and Anhui such as the Huangshan Mountain, West Lake and Qiandao Lake.
The 525.1-meter-long bridge at an altitude of 3,350 meters is the world's highest concrete-filled steel tube arch railway bridge.
The Associated Press saw nearly 10 armed soldiers at a checkpoint near Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, in Chiapas state, wearing black armbands to indicate they are part of the National Guard. The soldiers stopped vehicles while immigration officials checked identification and removed passengers without documents. At another checkpoint just north of Comitan in Chiapas, more than a dozen apparent National Guardsmen drove around back roads in the rain and dark, looking for migrants and human smugglers.
The 23-year-old geoscience student, who is applying for a doctoral program at a Canadian university, said the past 40 years have given millions of young Chinese opportunities to connect to the world and broaden their horizons.