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Growth Efforts Focus on Five Sectors
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| The Chinese government will focus on five specific sectors to maintain economic growth, a senior official said Thursday. The sectors involve housing, cars, information technology, healthcare and education, which have increasingly made up the lion's share of Chinese people's consumption. |
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Chinese Women Make Great Progress
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| Vice President of the All China Women's Federation, Gu Xiulian briefed the press August 14 on the development of Chinese women in the past five years, pinpointing great progress made in relation to social status, right to employment, education and health. |
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Chinese, South Korean FMs Hold Talks
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| Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing held talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan in Seoul Wednesday on bilateral relations and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear issue. |
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China Destroys 42 Million Pirated Discs
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| A record 42 million smuggled and pirated discs were destroyed across the country Monday in the largest ever crackdown on illegal audio and video CDs and DVDs in China, according to sources with the General Administration of Customs. |
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Joint Exercise Displays Expertise
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| The Shanghai Cooperation Organization joint anti-terrorism exercise concluded in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Monday. The exercise consisted of two phases, the first in Kazakhstan and the second in China. |
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More Protection Effort for Sanxingdui
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| Southwest China's Sichuan Province will spend 800 million yuan (US$96 million) to promote tourism at Sanxingdui ruins, a cultural site with a history of between 3,000 to 5,000 years. The investment will focus on museum expansion and road construction. |
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China Condemns US Spy Claims
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| Chinese officials Monday condemned a number of US media claims that China had been engaged in espionage there, as attempts to "denigrate" China and play up the so-called "China threat." |
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Delta Integration Revving Up
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| The Yangtze River Delta region, one of China's most dynamic areas, is picking up speed in its efforts to bring about more substantial and all-around integration. Such integration is expected to lead to the formation of a well-developed extended metropolitan belt in the region, which will become a major economic center of global stature.
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Alarm System to Help Shenzhou V Avoid Debris
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| Shenzhou V, due to become China's first manned spaceship when it is launched this autumn, will be fitted with an alarm system to avoid collisions in space, it was announced at the second National Space Debris Workshop held in Shanghai at the weekend. |
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China International Online Book Fair Launched
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| China International Book Online Expo, the first online book fair sponsored by Chinese publishers, makes its debut on August 8, 2003. The online fair, which has been participated by 823 publishers and booksellers worldwide, will last to early October and become a permanent platform for bookselling and copyright trading. |
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