More than 24,600 people have been evacuated after a landslide blocked the Jinsha River - the upper reaches of the Yangtze - in the border area of Sichuan province and the Tibet autonomous region, authorities said.As of 6 pm Friday, more than 13,600 people in affected areas in Tibet had been evacuated. The rising water also caused the collapse of some houses in the region. About 11,000 people from neighboring Sichuan were also evacuated, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.The landslide occurred around 7 am Thursday in Qamdo city, though no casualties have been reported. As of 3 pm Thursday, about 100 million cubic meters of water have accumulated in the barrier lake, according to the Sichuan flood control authority.
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China will build a nationwide earthquake early warning system by 2023, said a senior emergency management official.It has already finished testing an earthquake alert system for high-speed trains, and the system is expected to be extended to the country's entire high-speed rail network, said Zheng Guoguang, vice-minister of emergency management. He made the remarks ahead of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, which falls on Saturday this year.The early warning system, known as the National Seismic Intensity Rapid Reporting and Early Warning project, was approved by central authorities early last year. It will include more than 15,000 observation stations across the country, at a cost of almost 1.9 billion yuan ($274 million), and 3,360 service terminals in national and provincial government bodies that are related to earthquake relief, as well as in public institutions and vital infrastructure and utilities, such as nuclear power plants.
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Chinese stocks rebounded after steep declines Thursday, closing higher on Friday with blue-chip stocks leading the rally.The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.91 percent to close at 1,428.03 points. The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.45 percent higher to end at 7,558.28 points. Both sprang from slight dips at opening.Blue-chip stocks led the gains. The SSE 50 Index, which tracks 50 stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with large market capitalization and high liquidity, jumped by 2.24 percent.Combined turnover on the two bourses stood at 308.9 billion yuan (about 44.7 billion US dollars).China's A-share market plummeted Thursday along with other major Asian indices in a spillover of the US stocks tumble which comes amid fears for rising interest rates and a sell-off in tech shares.
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Upon entering the ship repair zone at the port of Piraeus, southern Greece, one could easily notice the immense floating dock painted in black and red and mirrored in the glossy Aegean Sea.Not far from the giant dock is a much smaller old one, lying idle, rusty.The "Piraeus 3" that arrived in March from Shanghai, eastern China, has greatly improved the capacity of the local ship repair business, a regional pillar industry hard hit in the debt crisis, according to Li Weina, general manager of the shipyard.
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![Alipay extends overseas reach amid outbound tourist surge]( "Alipay extends overseas reach amid outbound tourist surge")
Leading Chinese online payment platform Alipay has extended its services to 40 overseas tourist destinations amid a surge in outbound trips during the ongoing National Day holiday.Alipay's 40 new partners, mostly in Asia and Europe, include 10 airports, business districts, Chinatowns and outlet shopping malls.The mobile payment services are now available in over 90 percent of the shops at affiliated tourist destinations, and some businesses will offer Chinese tourists with special Alipay discounts and Mandarin-speaking customer service during the holiday.During the ongoing National Day holiday, which runs from October 1 to 7, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are expected to be the top destinations for Chinese tourists, according to a report by Ctrip, China's leading online provider of travel services.Chinese tourists are predicted to make seven million outbound trips during the holiday, or five percent of the year's total, with each spending 7,300 yuan (about $1,000) on ...
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A total of 1,106 small and medium-sized enterprises have debuted on China's National Equities Exchange and Quotations, also known as the "new third board," since the beginning of 2018.These companies issued stocks worth 47.52 billion yuan (about 6.92 billion U.S. dollars), according to the exchange.During the latest trading week before the National Day holiday, turnover on the board stood at 1.492 billion yuan, up 26.44 percent from the previous week.The exchange was launched in early 2013 to supplement the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges to serve SMEs.It is seen as a more beneficial financing channel for small businesses, with low costs and simple listing procedures.As of Sept. 28, the overall market value of the 10,946 companies on the "new third board" reached over 3.6 trillion yuan.
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The collision between the unilateralism under the banner of "America first" and the multilateralism that values equality and cooperation is getting increasingly fierce these days.During the current session of the UN General Assembly, plenty of UN officials and global political heavyweights voiced their opposition against the US-held unilateralism, expressing their strong will in safeguarding the multilateral trading system.UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that multilateralism was under fire while the world needed it most. He noted that the world was suffering from trust deficit disorder, and polarization and populism was on the rise in some countries, calling on all countries to promote and support multilateralism.
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In this world, some people only see what they want to see, and some only stress what they want to stress. They even use their power to force others to accept their point of views.The US labels China with “unfair trade”, “intellectual property theft” and other tags, and is trying to make hype through media reports. However, what the US fans up is not true.In the white paper “The Facts and China’s Position on China-US Trade Friction” released on Sept. 24, China has revealed the US misunderstandings .
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On September 21, a Swedish TV show insulted China. The program took aim at Chinese tourists, “welcoming” them to Sweden, and was full of lowbrow humor and insulting language and imagery. It promoted discrimination and other xenophobic tendencies, and the map used in the program portrayed China without Taiwan and parts of Tibet. Afterward, the video was uploaded to a popular Chinese video sharing site in order to maximize the effect.
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China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on Tuesday.Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said that the length of the Long March-9 will exceed 90 meters, and the rocket would have a core stage with a diameter of 10 meters.
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