growth of PM.5 tiny particulate matter concentration tha
that could at least double the readings,” Zhang said. He added that this could help explain the o
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Customs makes its biggest tusk bustuangpu Customs Distri
China’s customs officers have seized 2,748 ivory tusks weighing a combined 7.48 metric tons after cracking a major smuggling case.
It was the biggest haul of tusks ever recorded in an anti-smuggling bust conducted in
dependently by customs officers, the General Administration of Customs said on Monday.
The case was solved in March after a combined operation of differ
ent customs offices lasting three months. A total of 238 custo
ms officers took part from cities around the country, including Hefei, Nanjing, Beijing, Fuzhou and Qingdao.
Twenty suspects were detained for further investigation, accor
ding to Sun Zhijie, director of the administration’s anti-smuggling bureau.
Sun said the tusks, illegally shipped from African countries, were imported into China labeled as wood.
The plan calls for integration of AI with mathematics, st
, statistics, physics, biology, psychology and sociology, among other disci
plines. It promotes the “AI + X” interdisciplinary approa
ch in universities and aims to set up 100 majors that combine AI and other subjects by 2020.
Many Chinese universities have set their sights on improving AI education and nurturin
g more AI talent and have established new AI departments and research institutes.
Tsinghua University established an AI institute in 2018 as p
art of its efforts to advance AI research and education.
Aiming to become a globally influential AI research institution, the institute focuses on the basic theory of AI and activ
ely promotes cross-disciplinary AI research as well as the integration of academia and industry.
The company will not cancel social insurance and housi
sing funds for the sake of cost-cutting, Liu said, adding some staff made 80,000 yuan a
month in pilot areas for the new salary regime in southern China’s second and third-tier cities.
Earlier this year, rumors spread that China’s e-commerce giant would can
cel couriers’ basic salary and reduce welfare. The company confirmed the salary adjus
tment plan via its official Sina Weibo account on April 7, saying as the number of orders from individual clients incre
ases, the company is looking to adopt an incentive plan to reward outstanding employees.
JD will reduce its delivery staff members’ salaries by adopting a commis
sion-based payment scheme starting in June and low
er contributions to employees’ housing funds from 12 to 7 percent, Sina Finance reported.
An anonymous courier with JD Logistics said the task of getting more external delivery
orders under the new salary system would be hard to accomplish, and the new policy will reduce their salary, th
e report alleged, though the courier did not indicate an exact amount for the reduction.
Kim Jong-un says 3rd summit with Trump possible
PYONGYANG – Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Repub
lic of Korea (DPRK), said he is willing to meet the US president again on certain cond
itions, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday.
Kim made the remarks in his policy speech marking the First Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) on Frid
ay, a day after he was re-elected as chairman of the DPRK’s State Affairs Commission (SAC).
“If the United States adopts a correct posture and comes to the third DPRK-US summit with a certain methodology that can be shar
ed with us, we can think of holding one more (round of) talks,” Kim said. “It is necessary for both sides not to table t
heir unilateral demands but find out a constructive solution to meet each other’s interests.”
The top leader said he will “wait for a bold decision” from Trump “with patience till the end of this year.”
In his speech, Kim blamed the United States for only considering
its own interests during the second DPRK-US Summit in Vietnam’s Hanoi this Febru
ary. This has led the DPRK to question Trump’s willingness to improve relations with the DPRK.
China-led project expected to enhance space research
The ongoing China-led international collaboration project Tianq
in, a space-based gravitational wave detection syste
m scheduled to be completed by 2035, is expected to significantly improve unders
tanding of major cosmic phenomena, including black holes, scientists said.
Tianqin uses the Chinese words tian, meaning sk
y or heavens, and qin, meaning stringed musical instrument.
It will consist of three satellites forming an equilater
al triangle around Earth at an orbit of 100,000 kilometers.
Tianqin will work to detect gravitational waves, whic
h scientists theorize are ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by violen
t cosmic events, such as colliding black holes, supernovas and even the birth of the universe.
On Tuesday afternoon, he had talks with Tusk and Jun
ker. A number of cooperative agreements were signed after that.
Li flew to Croatia late on Tuesday to begin his first visit to the Central and Eastern Europe
an country, which also is the first by a Chinese premie
r in the 27 years since the two countries established diplo
matic ties. He will also attend the eighth China-CEEC leaders’ meeting in Dubrovnik.
In a signed article published on Tuesday by several Croatian newspap
ers, Li said China will open up further to unlock the potential for trade in goods and promote two-way t
rade and investment liberalization and facilitation. More competitive goo
ds from CEE countries are welcome in China, which is committed to working for more balanced trade.
Li also called for more opportunities in the new economy and new growt
h drivers in the digital economy, e-commerce, financial technology and smart cities.
The World Economic Outlook noted that Chinese autho
orities have responded to the slowdown in 2018 by limiting the e
xtent of financial regulatory tightening, injecting liquidity through cu
ts in the reserve requirement ratio, and reducing personal income taxes and corporate value-added taxes.
The overall outlook for emerging Asian economies rem
ains favorable, with China’s growth projected to slow gradually towa
rd sustainable levels. It predicts the country’s growth will moderate to 6.1 percent in 2020.
“China’s growth is set to stabilize,” said Cheng Shi, chief economist at ICBC International.
“As China increased its growth stabilization policy efforts, its economy has shown sig
ns of stability in the first quarter and may further consolidate in the second,” Cheng told China Daily.
China’s business activity revived and beat market expectations
in March, with the manufacturing purchasing managers index return-ing into expansion territory aft
er three months of contraction, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Former Chongqing court official killedestigated by
Tan Zhihua, former vice-president of the No 2 Intermediate Peopl
e’s Court in Chongqing, was killed during an alleged burglary, ThePaper.cn reported on Sunday.
The Shanghai-based website said the news was from an authorized source, but it did not disclose it.
The case is being investigated by local police, it said.
Tan, 55, a Chongqing native, was removed from his court post in December 2016.
CHENGDU — A forest fire that killed 27 firefighters and three locals in southwest China’s Sich
uan province a week ago started to burn again Saturday afternoon, local authorities said Sunday.
Around 5 pm on Saturday, the fire was found to have started in the northeastern part of the fo
rest, according to the sources with Muli County, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture.
So far, 350 firefighters are battling the fire and other 440 locals from neighboring towns have rushed to the site.
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