Shanghai became sister cities with Liverpool in 1999. Liverpool staged a pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, and businesses from Shanghai have been visiting Liverpool’s International Business Festival ever since it began in 2014.
Shares of Sina Corp and shares of Yum China Holdings Inc tumbled 4.59 percent and 4.51 percent respectively, leading the laggards in the top 10 stocks of the index.
Shamshad Akhtar, a member of the advisory committee for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, noted that among the committee's current funding, international institutes only make up a small percentage.
Several factors will help China withstand headwinds from global slowdown and other external instabilities.
She added that the peak of infections is expected to trail off in mid-to late-January, following the usual pattern.
Shanghai district requires a criminal background check for certain positions
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Several researchers have advocated for increased international cooperation to stem the epidemic.
Shanghai's fire department said, in a posting on its Weibo account, that it has dispatched 18 fire trucks to put out the fire and no casualties have been reported by so far.
Shanghai has since begun to crack down on such loan schemes, which target juveniles in most cases. As of the end of October, the city had nailed 316 criminal gangs, detained more than 1,770 suspects and retrieved more than 1.2 billion yuan in losses for the victims.
Several drones are used to spray pesticides on wheat fields in Gaocun town, Xingyang city, Central China’s Henan province on Friday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]