In February 2019, the law school of the University of Hong Kong announced the launch of a dual bachelor's-degree program with Peking University in Beijing. Students of the program need to earn two bachelor's degrees, one at each of the universities, within five years.
In June 2017, the Beijing Food and Drug Administration launched a large-scale campaign against unhealthy snacks in wholesale markets and shops near schools. A total of 6,100 kilograms of substandard snacks were removed from the capital's shelves.
In June, a record number of 4.8 million jobs were added back to the economy, according to the BLS. However, this did not entirely benefit women.
In June 2017, the public security bureau of Chengdu launched 15 policies to facilitate foreign talent to work or live in Chengdu.
In January, Wang Yi, Chinese State councilor and foreign minister, said when visiting Europe that some countries' attempts to discredit and contain Chinese high-tech companies like Huawei by leveraging their state power are "unfair and immoral", according to a report by Xinhua.
In July, Xiaomi Corp, the world's fourth-largest smartphone maker by shipments, went public with a dual-class shares structure, which allows for weighted voting rights in Hong Kong's stock market.
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In July, the ninth meeting of the Communist Party of China's central committee for deepening overall reform officially approved a master plan on building a demonstration area for local economic and trade cooperation between China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The area is based in Jiaozhou, which forms part of Qingdao.
In Guangdong province in February, Liu Yongtian, former Party secretary of Liu village in Guangzhou, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes including intentional injury, bribery and blackmail.
In July, Trump told reporters that he was “getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and with Amazon … they’re saying it wasn’t competitively bid.” A few weeks later, his defense secretary, Mark Esper, launched a review of the procurement process, delaying the conclusion of the contest. Esper later recused himself from the review because of his son’s work for IBM.
In July, Volvo Cars became the first established car company to embrace electrification as core to its future business.