The 2018 London Book Fair kicked off Tuesday and will run until Thursday. With more than 1,500 exhibitors from over 120 countries, the event is expected to draw more than 25,000 visitors this year.
The 13th Meeting of Security Council Secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be held from May 21-22 in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced on Wednesday.
The 15 measures the city adopted to ease the burden on all businesses are projected to cut costs by more than 180 billion yuan this year. The policies will help to lower tax contributions, labor costs, government service charges, and energy and land costs among others.
That request put HQ2 on comedian John Oliver’s radar: “that could mean billions of tax dollars that would not be collected for things like roads or schools or hospitals and Amazon already has more money than it knows what to do with,” he said during his show “Last Week Tonight.”
The 2018 election is expected to be hotly contested between the current two favorites, Jose Antonio Meade, former finance minister and candidate from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who will run for the third time. He founded the PRD but after two failed attempts, created the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
The 10 milu from Beijing dash toward East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
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The "Deep Pit Hotel", the lowest-lying hotel in the world, will open in Shanghai between October and December, the hotel said on Wednesday.Developed by Hong Kong-listed property developer Shimao Group and set to be managed by InterContinental Hotels Group, the hotel is located in a deep pit beside the Sheshan Mountain in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.It has two floors above ground and 16 underground – two underground floors are even underwater – that contain a combined 336 guest rooms.All the guest rooms boast sightseeing platforms with views of waterfalls.
That saves about 15 million metric tons of standard coal consumption in the area it covers, and reduces emissions including 40 million tons of carbon dioxide and 300,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, according to the company.
The 2019 World Cyber Games are held in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua]
The 1,454 kilometer pipeline is being jointly operated by CNPC Trans-Asia Pipeline Co Ltd and Kazakhstan's state KazTransGaz-and will provide China with 5 billion cu m of natural gas each year-according to Asia's biggest oil and gas producer CNPC.