Shang's company, for example, earned over 20 million yuan in 2016. It expects to double or even triple its earnings this year. As a result of expanding production, the factory now needs several metric tons of jasmine blossoms per day.
Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology Co, a subsidiary launched in 2016, is cooperating on the project with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Semiconductors and has initially invested 600 million yuan. The company said the Changzhi government has offered 150 million yuan in financial support.
Several key members, including Zhang Tianming, the mastermind of Shanxinhui, were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of obtaining illegal gains of more than 2.2 billion yuan (334 million U.S. dollars).
Several thousand protesters, an ethnically mixed crowd of all ages including members of Pittsburgh's tight-knit Jewish community, held an anti-Trump rally about a block away from the synagogue just as his visit began, singing Old Testament psalms and carrying signs with slogans such as "We build bridges not walls."
Shanxi has vowed to cut the levels of PM2.5 and sulfur dioxide by 40 percent during the period.
Shanghai-based Ecolab China is planning to expand its food safety business from southern China to the northern part of the country as consumption gets upgraded nationwide, presenting new opportunities.
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Shanghai is a peculiar example, home to more than 47,500 buildings taller than eight stories, among which more than 1,700 are over 30 stories. The city also is home to more than 330,000 elevated outdoor billboards. The installation of air conditioners, clotheslines and poles usually attached to buildings' exteriors also poses a serious peril as they can come loose and fall.
Seventy years after the issuance of the "May 1 Slogans," China is striving for national rejuvenation. One of the concrete goals is to build China into a great modern socialist country by the middle of the century.
Several of my co-workers who were in the office early that morning had fled, some walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and others hopping on a commuter ferry to New Jersey on the East River, anything to flee the shocking scene. It was the same ferry line I had planned to take in to the office that day.
Shan Jixiang, the director of the Palace Museum, says: "The crossover between traditional Chinese art, music and technology, is what appeals to young audiences."