Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics showed China had a population of 249 million aged 60 or above at the end of 2018, accounting for 17.9 percent of the total population.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Beijing, in this Aug 9, 2019 file photo. FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY
Spring farming is progressing smoothly despite the novel coronavirus outbreak, laying a solid foundation for stable yields, senior officials said at the news conference of Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of State Council on Sunday.
Starting Jan 1, the country eliminated all 487 physical expressway tollbooths on provincial borders and put the nonstop electronic toll collection system into operation on its 140,000-kilometer highway network, Wu said.
Starting April 2 this year, Zhang flew to Canada, entered the Arctic Circle then crossed the Davis Strait into Greenland before arriving in Iceland. He then flew to Europe, and turned to Turkey, Kazakhstan and Russia before entering China.
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Starting from Aug 18, cotton yarn futures will be trading on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, with preparation work for the launch already completed, said the China Securities Regulatory Commission(CSRC) in a statement Friday.
Starting from the late 1990s, more young people-including Shi Guangyao's four children-left the village for jobs in cities. But he couldn't part with the stone mill he inherited from his father, so he continued to use it, making tofu for his children when they returned home for the annual Chinese New Year holiday.
Starting Friday, all inbound international flights to Beijing Daxing International Airport had been taken over by the Capital International Airport in Shunyi district, said Zhao Ying, vice-general manager of Capital Airport Holding Company, which operates two capital airports.
Steel imports also increased significantly during the same period, with China importing 7.343 million tons of steel, up 26.1 percent year-on-year.