The island country also benefits from China's tourism market. Last year, more than 260,000 Chinese tourists visited Sri Lanka, according to Sri Lanka's tourism ministry, and the country hopes to attract more tourists from China, said the ambassador.
The latest statistics released by Chinese local civil affairs departments show a growing trend -- a rise in the age of marriage among Chinese urbanites like Zhang.
The law aims at granting citizenship to illegal immigrants belonging to six religions - Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parsi and Christianity - from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, it has kept out Muslim immigrants from applying for citizenship.
The joint venture will provide services in several Chinese cities using premium vehicles, including Mercedes-Benz autos, according to the carmaker.
The kids immediately set to work using various fruits and vegetable — apples, bananas, oranges, broccoli, carrots and more — to create works of art such as an underwater world, a hedgehog's paradise and a peacock spreading its tail.
The large amount of asset management products, including the nonstandard credit instruments, have contributed to the country's "shadow banking" sector, but they are still significant financing channels for small Chinese companies. The smaller borrowers often have difficulties in getting bank loans.
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The launch of the trading link will mark an elevation of China's integration with the global markets as London represents a major global financial center with a pool of very international and diversified investors, said Dong Dengxin, a finance professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology.
The law is urgently needed, considering the city is unable to enact a law on its own in a short time, she said.
The job market remained stable, with 3.34 million new jobs created and the surveyed unemployment rate staying under 5 percent, NBS data showed.
The joint venture is functioning as the operator of the program and is responsible for separating the duties, establishing relevant engineering centers in the countries and selecting contractors, including developers, and first and second-level suppliers, from among the subsidiaries of Rostec, the Chinese participants and foreign companies, according to Rostec.