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Hong Lei, Chinese consul general in Chicago, has called for the city's police to clamp down on rising telecom fraud against Chinese, in his meeting with Noel Sanchez, who runs the Police Department's Bureau of Organized Crime.
The global demand for gold is projected to increase 1.5 percent this year, led by high demand growth in China, according to a report released in Beijing on Monday.
Westlake University, China's first private research university, held its first-ever school board meeting on Monday in Hangzhou City, electing famed Chinese physicist Chen-Ning Frank Yang as the board's honorary chairman and biophysicist Shi Yigong as the university's first president.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment is set to take charge of the monitoring and supervision of surface water quality to provide accurate information for water pollution control and ensure data authenticity, the Legal Daily reported.
China's first software-based satellite will be launched in the second half of the year from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province, China Central Television reported.
Recent research suggests that the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise should be considered a unique incipient species different from marine porpoises.
Shanghai, Fujian Province and Suzhou Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province will conduct the one-year commercial pension insurance project. Under the plan, individuals will be allowed to defer tax on part of their income that is used to buy commercial pension insurance until they retire and draw money from the fund.
Peppa Pig copyright holder Entertainment One (eOne) said it will cooperate with local animation and toy company Alpha Group Co to further develop the Chinese market and welcome the Year of the Pig, Beijing Morning Post reported.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has issued a decree authorizing procuratorial organs to designate or invite specialists to help in solving cases.
China Securities Regulatory Commission is actively pushing ahead a linkage between Chinese and British stock markets, said a spokesperson, adding that Shanghai-London Stock Connect is expected to start operation this year through joint efforts in both countries.
