The World Bank Group's 2016 report urged China to maintain its goals and direction of healthcare reform. This could be achieved by continuing the shift from a "hospital-centric" model that focuses on volume and sales to one that is centered on primary care.
The World Bank chief said one of his key goals is to achieve breakthroughs in countries that either have a high amount of extreme poverty or have too little shared prosperity, making sure that they can do much better.
The administration also will step up its efforts to provide higher-quality service this year, including streamlined security checks, more efficient complaint handling and better in-flight meals, he said.
The WTO is expected to rule on the US sanctions request by September.
The Zurich Insurance booth at a financial exhibition in Beijing. [File photo]
The Yangtze River, Asia's longest, runs through 10 provinces and municipalities. To replenish its rapidly dwindling fish stocks and preserve the ecology, the central government has decided to enforce a decadelong fishing moratorium along the river.
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The ability of Chinese companies to explore emerging markets has continued to improve, with their exports to emerging economies rising by 3.7 percentage points to 51.8 percent of China's total exports during this period, said Li Xingqian, director-general of the department of foreign trade under the Ministry of Commerce.
The added value of Hubei's primary industry was down 25.3 percent year-on-year during the January-March period to 54 billion yuan, compared to a 48.2-percent drop in the secondary industry to 214.7 billion yuan and a 33.3-percent decline to 369.2 billion yuan in the service sector, according to the bureau.
The Whole Foods location in South Lake Union, just blocks from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
The accumulated balance of the three social insurance funds stood at 6.85 trillion yuan last year.