interest in philosophy, history, literature, culture, music and sports, and that he first cul
nts to visit China in the future.Kendra Le, a Niles North freshman, was thrilled about Xi’s response letter, the Chicago Tribune reported.
“I was surprised, very surprised,” Le was quoted in the report as say
ing. “It was an honor to receive a letter from him. It was really nice getting a letter from him.”
The report also said that Zhao Jian, the Chinese consul general in Chicago, personally
delivered the letter to a gathering of students enrolled in Chinese classes at Niles North on April 3.
Serena Meyers, a Niles North senior taking her first year of Chinese after thr
ee terms of Spanish, was not only happy to receive the response, but also ple
ased at how the Chinese leader made an effort to answer the questions her classmates posed.
“I was absolutely surprised,” she told the Chicago Tribune. “He has a lot to do and it was a
n honor he wrote back to us.”The Niles North High School began offering Mandarin courses in 2008.
reforms to foster an investor-friendly legal system, represented by strengthened information disclosure, prot
ection of investors’ rights and interests, and crackdown on legal breaches, Liu said.
China must promote the healthy development of the capital m
arket through key institutional innovations, the Political Bureau of the Communist Part
y of China Central Committee, the Party’s core leadership, said a statement released after a meeting on Friday.
Dong said the revised law is likely to be adopted by the end of the first half of the ye
ar, adding it is imperative and possible to expedite rolling out the revised version.
“Previously, controversies over the registration-based IPO system reform ha
ve prolonged the revision process, but now this factor has been largely lifted,” he said.
“As foreign investors are set to play a bigger role in China’s capital
market development, the revised law should also consider clarifying the rights and oblig
ations of overseas investors, to help them form a stable policy expectation,” said Xue Yi, an associate p
tee to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee during a bimonthly session that began on
Saturday. In August, the Standing Committee began a preliminary review of all six parts and 1,034 items of the civil code.
Another health related item added to the code addressed human testing for new drug
s or treatments. It provides that all activities involving human testing must protect the subject’s health.
These activities include developing new drugs, medical equipment and prevention and treatment methods. They now
require approval from an ethics committee, as well as by competent authorities.
The draft amendment to the Drug Administration Law said the nation should encourage the development of new
drugs, according to Cong Bin, a forensic expert and a senior legislator on the law committee.
A draft amendment to the Securities Law was submitted Saturday to a bimonthly session of the
National People’s Congress Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, for a third reading.
The latest revisions to the law include rules on the newly-devised science and technology inn
ovation board, which will pilot a registration-based initial public offering (IPO) system.
Under the current IPO system, new shares are subject to ap
proval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission before being listed.
Other revisions in the draft are made in light of new p
rogress of reforms and new developments of the capital market.
A draft amendment to the law was previously submitte
d to the top legislature for first reading in April 2015, mainly
to meet the legislative demand of reforming the IPO system toward a registration-based one.
ting the spirit of December’s Central Economic Work Conference.
Macro policies should be stable, micro policies should be flexible and social policies should guarantee the basic needs of the grassroots
people, the statement said. Macro policies should focus on promoting high-quality growth and stimulating market vitality.
The importance of manufacturing’s high-quality development in stabilizing economic growt
h was stressed. Traditional industries should be guided to upgrade, and new industries should grow stronger.
The development of small and medium-sized companies and private businesses should be supported through measures like s
peeding up the supply-side structural reform of finance and providing better loan services, the stat
ement said. It also reaffirmed that houses should be used for living rather than for profit.
Reform should be further deepened and opening-up boosted, and forei
gn capital should have bigger access to the Chinese market. Poverty reduction is a key meas
ure of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, which must be achieved by the end of next y
have improved the company’s stocking and inventory processes.
“Earlier we were reliant on the intuitions and experience of the local operation team. With the
use of technology like AI and big data, we are getting more accurate answers.”
As a larger and older retailer, Walmart has constantly worked with startups, said McMillon, citing the new Omega 8 platf
orm that enables retail innovation startups to collaborate with Walmart China to create better services for customers.
McMillon cited the example of a scanning ring developed by a starup for
Walmart that shortens pickup time for JD Daojia orders to less than 10 minutes and impr
ovements in the overall efficiency by 50 percent. Walmart’s WeChat mini-program has over 30 million members and is
developing an e-commerce service based on WeChat to help customers shop more easily and more accurately.
that could at least double the readings,” Zhang said. He added that this could help explain the o
ccurrence of heavy PM2.5 pollution that lasts for an extended period of time in certain regions.
Zhang said the interaction of air pollution and meteorologic
al conditions could be triggered when PM2.5 density reaches 100 micrograms per cubic meter in ma
ny of the monitoring points of a region. In such situations, more solar radiation wil
l be reflected back into the space, resulting in temperature inversion and further stabilizing the ground atm
osphere. And the height of the mixing layer could decrease to only one-third of that w
hen pollution processes begin, exacerbating particulate concentration levels even further.
The center’s research also showed that global warming is increas
ing the number of days with a stable surface atmosphere in n
orthern China, especially in the cluster, making smog more likely to develop.
when the late Qing Dynasty residence of Wu Lu, the province’s last zhuangyuan (top scorer on imperial examinations), was damaged.
Fire this year also destroyed a bridge dating from four centuries ago in Nanping, Fuji
an, a Qing Dynasty residence in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and an office structure from the 1930s in Fuzhou, Jiangxi.
The operators of the sites hit by fire will be responsible for the dam
age, said the heritage administration. “Electrical faults and loose supervision over the use of fire
during renovation are the main reasons” for the damage, the administration’s statement said.
Though the fire at Notre Dame is under investigation, Frenc
h officials said they suspect its source might have been related to restoration work on the cathedral.
he clock, a fire engine, over 160 hydrants, thousand of extinguishers, and fire walls, officials said last year.