The team had only nine months to prepare for the challenge. They exercised a number of days each week, learned breathing techniques and geared up with all the necessary tools for the journey, all to ensure they could handle the tough terrain and varying conditions on the rooftop of the world. "Our expedition is no doubt one of the hardest, most humbling and most rewarding commitments each of us has ever done," says Brad Morris, board chair of the MSH Foundation. "Not only were there physical demands on our own fitness levels, but the physiology and unknowns of one's body and ability to adapt to altitude and changing conditions were challenges too."
The sub-indices for bulk commodity supply and sales expanded slower in April compared with the previous month, while the sub-index for stocks dropped in April.
The survey discovered that about 75 percent of companies from the IT and telecommunication sectors list China as their top priority. In the education sector, 80 percent of enterprises rank China among their top three priority markets. The country also remains a key market for British businesses from the healthcare, consumer goods and hospitality sectors.
The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
The survivor, Yao Xiuying, was only 6 years old when Japanese troops captured Nanjing on Dec 13, 1937. They killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers over a six-week period.
The surveyed urban unemployment rate is calculated based on the number of unemployed people who have participated in the employment survey in urban areas.
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The survey also found that those whose hometowns are in eastern coastal regions had the strongest desire to return home for career development.
The survey disclosed that most young people say they are "definitely" or "very likely" to vote this year, which almost doubled the 46 percent that voted in 2016.
The surging number of arrivals are also putting heavy pressure on the capacity of Shenzhen hotels. An employee at a quarantine hotel in Luohu said the hotel is running near capacity and added that those in Futian and Nanshan districts are facing greater pressure.
The surge in research spending comes as part of the country's decade-long efforts to upgrade its manufacturing sector.