In 2018, Chinese companies built 43.2 percent of the new ships in the world, up from 41.9 percent a year ago, cementing the country's leading role in the sector, the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry said in a report.
In April, smartphone shipments in China rose by 17.2 percent in April on a yearly basis, the first such expansion in the past four months. This was a sign of a strong rebound in consumer enthusiasm for electronic products, said the government think tank China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
In August, China's State Council also decided at an executive meeting to establish a long-term mechanism to prevent shortages and unreasonable price hikes of commonly used drugs. This included allowing producers to decide on the prices of drugs in shortage for a public procurement process without bidding to the authorities, and establishment of those production bases.
In April, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Apple and the publishers, citing much of the same evidence that the companies were “conspiring to wrestle control of the e-book market from Amazon.”
In 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US accused TikTok of illegally collecting information about children, but the situation was quickly clarified. The committee also accused TikTok of transferring US user information to a Chinese server and cooperating with the Chinese government's content review, but so far it has not given any public evidence to substantiate its allegation.
In 2017, Merlin struck a licensing deal with production company Entertainment One to build attractions based on the Peppa Pig brand, and the company confirmed the first five locations would be limited to the United States and China. The children's show is incredibly popular in China where it has amassed more than 34 billion views in less than three years.
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In 2017, Fujian province in East China was chosen as the pilot region to test the technology, and it has helped to find more than 800 missing people in the province, according to the ministry.
In April alone, the crude oil output rose 0.6 percent year-on-year to 15.71 million tonnes, with the growth rate down 1.5 percentage points from March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.
In 2017, China committed itself to the G20 Operational Guidelines for Sustainable Financing, and in 2019 to the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, both of which contain debt-related provisions including complying with World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies for countries where debt sustainability is already a concern.
In Anhui, inspectors found that the provincial water resources bureau did not supervise drains, and that wastewater contained excessive pollutants. Also, officials in Hefei's Binhu New District allowed construction waste to pile up and harm wetland, they said.