Qualcomm Ventures said it has a strong track record of investing in leading global startups with over 350 investments made since the group started in 2000. This includes notable companies like Zoom, Cloudflare, AMEC, Xiaomi, Cruise Automation, 99, Thundersoft, Fitbit and Waze. Chinese startups have been major beneficiaries of Qualcomm's investment plans.
Qin noted that some rural couples, such as those whose only child was a girl, were allowed to have two children in the hope the second would be a boy, which would help to maintain the workforce.
Qiu Quanlin in Guangzhou contributed to the story.
Protection and reinforcement of cultural heritage sites in flood-hit provinces in South China will be a focus of restoration work in the next few years, a senior National Cultural Heritage Administration official said on Saturday.
Qiu, former deputy head of Jilin's discipline inspection commission and supervisory commission, was also fined 1.7 million yuan (2,000) and had his illegal gains confiscated.
Qiu Zhaoxian, vice-president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade's Guangdong branch, said the 2017 Guangdong 21st Century Maritime Silk Road International Expo will create more opportunities for promoting trade, infrastructure and people-to-people exchanges between Chinese companies and those in Africa, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Islands.
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Pupils and teachers pose for a selfie in front of a "smiling face wall" exhibit in Anhui province on Wednesday. The exhibit, in the former New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, celebrates the 19th Party Congress, starting next Wednesday. CAO XIAODONG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Public security authorities will maintain "zero tolerance" for cross-border online gambling and resolutely curb the spread and development of such crimes, officials from the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday.
Qomolangma "is the highest peak in the world, so (its altitude) is of interest to the whole world as well", he said.
Qu is accused of taking advantage of his posts to misappropriate a huge amount of corporate funds, while the other three defendants are accused of duty encroachment for actively assisting Guo's illegal seizure of Tianjin Huatai's capital.