In April, Yang Tao, vice-minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said 432,500 people returned from overseas last year, and the proportion of Chinese students who returned to China after overseas study rose to 82.23 percent last year from 72.39 percent in 2015.
In 2018, Yanchi became the first of nine counties in Xihaigu, an area in Ningxia known for its poor living conditions, to escape poverty. Yue said afforestation has been fueling China's poverty alleviation efforts.
In 2018, there were more than 2,000 AI companies in China, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and 20 percent have been settled in the capital's Haidian district.
In 2018, China's total retail sales of consumer goods are estimated to reach 40.5 trillion yuan (.4 trillion), replacing the United States as the world's largest retail market, said Wang Changlin, an economic expert with the State Development and Reform Commission.
In Beijing on Nov 8 and Nov 9, US and Chinese businesses signed deals worth some 3 billion, involving largely Chinese purchase of US products from planes to soybeans.
In 2017, Italy registered some 1.5 million Chinese tourists, according to the Chinese Tourism Academy, a public entity under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
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In 2016, the government introduced the second-child policy, which allowed every couple to have two children. The move was aimed at reversing the decline in the nation's workforce.
In 2017, the sales of TCL's liquid crystal display TVs came to 23.8 million, up 15.9 percent compared with same period in 2016, while its sales in the North American market rose 131.5 percent year-on-year.
In 2019, Chinese courts handled 15,872 civil and commercial disputes involving foreign litigants, up 11.2 percent year-on-year. Litigants came from countries including the United States, Vietnam, Canada and Japan, official data show.
In 2019, most of the country's blockchain spending went to the banking sector, while discrete manufacturing, retail, professional services and process manufacturing were among the top industries that attracted blockchain spending.