This year marks the final year of China's new round of anti-poverty drive, which kicked off late 2012 with the aim to end domestic poverty before 2021, the centenary of the Communist Party of China.
This year's AWE in Shanghai drew 220,000 visitors from China as well as nearly 80 countries and regions, with overseas visitors accounting for more than 10 percent of them, according to figures from the association.
This year's grand marshal was Loretta Brennan Glucksman, chairwoman of The American Ireland Fund, a group that has raised millions of dollars for philanthropic projects in Ireland, including funding for integrated schools for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland.
This year, Beijing plans to carry out 11 projects focusing on relocating noncapital functions like education and medical care, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Friday.
This year's awards were given to seven women, celebrating their contributions in business, arts and culture, education and science and healthcare.
Those attending included Jason Zhengrong Lu, director of the Global Infrastructure Fund (GIF) of the World Bank; Chiaki Yamamoto, senior expert of the World Bank PPP Project; David Duarte Arancibia, senior World Bank expert in charge of infrastructure finance and PPP project guarantees; and Xianyong (Eric) Gao, chartered financial analyst at the International Finance Corporation and its chief investment officer in China.
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This year, the central government issued 1 trillion yuan in government bonds for COVID-19 control and increased the fiscal deficit by 1 trillion yuan. These extraordinary measures were meant as coping mechanisms during the pandemic.
This week activist hedge fund Jana Partners disclosed it is the second biggest shareholder in Whole Foods with a nearly 9 percent stake. The fund is reportedly trying to get Whole Foods to shake up its business or explore a sale.
This year's fair covers areas like cultural trade, tourism services, financial services, winter sports, and robotics. It has become a major exhibition platform for China in its opening-up process.
Those lawsuits have resulted in 37 legal victories for the state - a mix of decisions in favor of California, or preliminary injunctions halting the Trump administration's actions pending a final decision.