The centers give free classes on the country's common language, impart knowledge of the law and provide vocational skills for the trainees who have been influenced by terrorism and extremism and are suspected of minor criminal offenses. The centers have proved effective in eliminating religious extremism, Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the regional government, said in March.
The city's objective also is to reduce the total inmate population across all city jails to 5,000. It was around 8,200 in August, when the city announced the plan.
The ceremony was attended by Zhang Yifei, the 67-year-old daughter of Chang Chong-chen, also known as Zhang Chongren, who collaborated on The Blue Lotus. Set in Shanghai, it was the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series that Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, also known by his pen name Herge, created in 1929.
The changes that have taken place in China are phenomenal and unprecedented in global history, said Jon R. Taylor, political science professor and department chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The city's 35 major scenic spots and parks have also been decorated with flowers to further beautify Guangzhou, dubbed "the city of flowers", according to a statement released by its forestry and landscaping bureau.
The central authorities of finance, taxation and customs jointly announced last week to further ease the duty-free shopping quota from 16,000 yuan 30,000 yuan, as a move to boost tourism and domestic consumption as Hainan island targets becoming a free-trade port.
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The city's GDP in the first half in 2019 was 1.5 trillion yuan, which marked 6.3 percent growth year-on-year.
The change came as authorities have to juggle the task of financial deleveraging, which is aimed at defusing risk and curbing asset bubbles, while shoring up a slowing economy.
The city recorded two new cases on Thursday, both related to overseas travel. One involves a 37-year-old man, diagnosed a day after his wife was confirmed to be infected. The couple had returned from the United Kingdom on Flight CX250 on Feb 29 with their toddler, who also had a runny nose and was hospitalized.
The central bank survey also showed that 51.5 percent of urban residents expected property prices to stay stable in Q4, while about 45.7 percent predicted that the consumer inflation level would remain generally flat.