Talent policies are the highlight of the newly released measures, targeting professionals from home and abroad. Specifically, talents, who have worked in Lingang for certain years and promise to continue working in the area for at least two more years after obtaining Shanghai residential licences, can be granted Shanghai household registration within five years, instead of seven years previously. For the key talents in strategic industries, the period can be further shortened to three years.
Talks on potential listing in the London market remain at an "early phase". No specific timeline has been determined, but a rough estimate of the timing for the listing may be "early next year", the sources said.
Technology and online platforms are helping farmers start the agricultural year. Yang Zekun reports.
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Technicians check gas storage facilities in Puyang, Henan province. [Photo by Ma Hongshan/for China Daily]
Tariffs are also being cut. For example, starting July 1, the 20-to 25-percent tariffs for imported vehicles were cut to 15 percent and the duties on auto parts were lowered to 6 percent from the previous levels of 8 to 25 percent.
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Taobao, the country's largest e-commerce platform, said its sales generated through livestreaming reached 100 billion yuan last year, a fourfold increase from 2017. Such sales typically involve a celebrity demonstrating a product and answering real-time questions from a digital audience using smartphones.
TV networks CNN and CBS said on Sept 18 that they would stop airing advertisements by e-cigarette companies on their networks.
Taiwan is expected to enter the stage of super-aged society in 2026, the island's economic planner estimated.
Takeda, the biggest Asian pharmaceutical company, said it plans to list more than seven innovative drugs in China in the next five years, covering digestion, neuroscience and oncology. "New products listed in China will be more than in any other country in the world. The Chinese market has always been at the core of our global development strategy," said Shan Guohong, president of Takeda China.