Last year, China invested 2.6 billion in clean energy projects, a record-breaking 40 percent of the global total. Around billion of the spending was directed at offshore wind projects.
Last year had 51,000 fatal accidents, killing more than 34,000 people, the ministry said. China has more than 72,000 emergency management professionals spread across about 1,000 rescue teams who have played a backbone role in responding to major accidents or natural disasters, Sun said.
Last month's Central Economic Work Conference identified three 'tough battles' in the coming three years: resolving risks; targeting poverty; and controlling pollution.
Last year over 17.8 billion yuan was allocated by the central government to provincial, city and county governments in Henan for poverty relief. This was a 23.4 percent increase from 2017, data from the poverty alleviation office showed.
Last month, violent clashes erupted in Charlottesville, a historic college town in the US state of Virginia, between white nationalists and counterprotesters, leaving one killed and 19 others wounded.
Last week, several startups announced their latest fundraising results. Uisee, a Chinese startup focused on algorithms and systems for high-level autonomous driving, finished its round B financing, with investors including German industrial giant Bosch.
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Last year, the average review time for trademark registration was shortened to 4.5 months, compared with six months in 2018, and the processing time for examination of high-value patents was reduced by more than 15 percent to 17.3 months, the latest administration data show.
Last year, it piloted a program allowing residents in Guangdong province to link their national identity cards to WeChat, circumventing people's needs to carry a physical card.
Last Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his US counterpart Mike Pompeo met in Singapore on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers' meeting. Ankara and Washington agreed to work together to resolve problems between them, Cavusoglu said after the meeting.
Last year, Honeywell established a connected enterprise business in China, the only regional team outside the US market, which stressed the importance it attaches to, and the confidence it has in, the development of China's digital economy.