Imports of iron ore and soybeans dropped by 1.6 percent and 2 percent year-on-year to 803 million tons and 70.01 million tons, respectively.
In 2016, Hortifrut signed a joint venture agreement with California's Munger Farms to combine assets in California, Oregon and Washington states. A year earlier, it signed a joint venture with China's Joyvio Wing Mao, of which Hortifrut owns 51 percent.
In 2011, the Shanghai Municipal Regulations on the Administration of Dog Keeping began requiring all pet dogs to be vaccinated and registered with the police.
In 2015, profits of the coal industry totaled 44.1 billion yuan (.7 billion). Those profits in the first nine months this year now stand at 216.5 billion yuan.
In 1998, Sun, then 21, was sentenced to death by the Kunming Intermediate People's Court in Yunnan for rape, intentional injury, insulting women and disturbing public order. But the sentence was reduced to death with a two-year reprieve by the Yunnan High People's Court in 1999, and in 2007 was then further cut to 20 years in prison.
In 2005, Zhang and Yang started a company ostensibly producing medical coating and solvent. Their real products included methylone, a psychotropic drug that can induce euphoric highs.
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In 2008, Hollywood star Orlando Bloom was spotted wearing Warrior shoes. After the photo of him went viral online, more stars began to ape the style, including the Chinese-Canadian actor Kris Wu and the actresses Yang Mi and Tang Yan.
In 1995, Gu was born into a poor family in Mazhou township, Jiangxi province. Her mother died when she was a month old. Her stepmother, whom her father married years later, was mentally unstable and suffered from various diseases, though she brought two boys and a girl into the world.
In 2007, China became the world's largest gold producer, replacing South Africa, it said. According to China Gold Association, China produced 453 tons of gold and bought 975 tons in 2016.
In 2012, the local government launched a resort called Lulang International Tourism Town, attracting investment of more than 3.5 billion yuan (0 million) from the government of Guangdong province and businesses, including China Poly Group Corp, Evergrande Group and Guangdong Provincial Tourism Holding Co.