Members of the upper house serve six-year terms, with about half the seats up for grabs every three years. Due to electoral reform, the number of seats in the upper house will increase by six to 248 in 2022. Of the six, three will be added this time to bring the total seats to 245.
Members of China's top political advisory body have called for legislation on electronic payments to better guard against risks and protect consumer rights.
Media previously reported that the deal may mark a step closer for Wanda Commercial to relist on the mainland and cash in on higher valuations on domestic markets after it delisted in Hong Kong last year.
Miao Ruilin, vice-governor of East China's Jiangsu province, was expelled from the Party and removed from public office for disciplinary and legal violations, an official statement said Sunday.
Meng was arrested in December 2018 in Vancouver at the request of the US authorities, who alleged that Meng lied to HSBC about Huawei dealings with a former subsidiary accused of violating the US trade sanctions in Iran.
Measles cases are rising worldwide, even in wealthy nations such as Germany and the United States, as parents shun immunisation for philosophical or religious reasons, or fears, debunked by doctors, that such vaccines could cause autism.
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Medical experts at a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, have shared their knowledge and experience in fighting novel coronavirus pneumonia with their counterparts in Italy, and called for greater international cooperation to curtail the contagion's global spread.
Meiweizhai's pastry chef and tailors from Refosian worked together to create flour-based pankou (cloth buttons folded into the shape of flowers), to show off their mastery of their joint professions.
Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, said "the idea of cutting off all the access of exchanges is cutting off our ways of understanding each other".
Mexico also took steps on Tuesday to make it more attractive for other countries to send it pork by opening a tariff-free quota for some pork imports. Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said his country would now "surely" look to Europe for pork products, used in many traditional dishes in Mexico.