The court also seized Wu's personal assets of 1 million yuan (150,000 U.S. dollars) which will be turned over to the state treasury, according to the verdict announced on Friday by the Intermediate People's Court of Xiangyang City in central China's Hubei Province.
The country's economic achievements during the past five years are extremely impressive, contributing about a third of global economic growth. Its share of global GDP (gross domestic product) was about 15 percent in 2016.
The country's nonmanufacturing PMI stood at 53.9 in October, down from 54.9 in September, and the composite PMI for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sectors was 53.1 in October, down from 54.1 in the previous month.
The country's service trade deficit stood at about 1.62 trillion yuan (5 billion) last year, according to the MOC report issued last week.
The court heard Yao's case on July 5, 2019 and again on April 3, noting in the ruling that his behavior constituted the crime of bribery and the amount of bribes could be defined as "extremely large" under the Chinese Criminal Law.
The country's southernmost island province of Hainan, which offered a 15-day visa-free stay for group tourists from over 20 countries for years, started to allow group and individual visitors from 59 countries to travel there visa-free and stay for up to 30 days under certain conditions in May last year.
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The court was told that Lin threw bricks at police while the other two stood at the front in a standoff with police and held glass bottles.
The current estimated population of eastern North Pacific gray whales is about 27,000, the highest recorded by the agency since it began gray whale surveys in 1967, said biologist David Weller.
The deals announced on Thursday take the government's total spend on securing vaccine doses to more than 3.2 billion Australian dollars (about 2.3 billion U.S. dollars).
The country's cross-border e-commerce sector has expanded rapidly in recent years. [Photo/VCG]