The average leisure time of Chinese people has decreased to 2.27 hours per day in 2017 from 2.55 hours three years ago, according to a newly released joint report by the National Academy of Economic Strategy and Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Friday.
The biggest change has been wind power's share in generating electricity, which rose from 0.58 percent in 2007 to 9.03 percent last year. Nuclear energy also saw a slight rise, from 1.23 percent to 2.04 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
The author is the founder of Understanding China, former special envoy (with the status of an ambassador) for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and former consul general of Pakistan in Shanghai.
The automaker will replace the gas generators in airbags for the affected vehicles free of charge.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.68 percent on Friday to close at 3272.08 points, while the Shenzhen Component Index climbed 2.96 percent to close at 13289.26 points. The technology-focused ChiNext index in Shenzhen increased 3.81 percent to close at 2672.93 points.
The author is director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney.The views do not necessarily reflect those of China Daily.
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The ban on European visitors to the US battered US airline stocks when they opened on Thursday. United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines were all down.
The average density of sulfur dioxide on Tuesday in Dongsi monitoring station in Beijing, for example, stood at about 15 mcg/cubic m. The data from Windy.com, however, showed the hourly density in the area fluctuated between 144 and 318 mcg/cubic m that day, with an average density of 212 mcg/cubic m, it said.
The author, essayist and journalist was regarded as one of the pioneers of what was called ``new journalism’’ in the 1960s and 1970s, which combined journalistic research with the techniques of fiction writing in the reporting of stories about real-life events.
The bank's non-performing loan ratio came in at 1.54 percent at the end of March, down from 1.55 percent at the end of 2017.