Power consumption by the service sector and households maintained double-digit growth in 2018, up 12.7 percent and 10.4 percent, respectively.
President Xi Jinping on Thursday sent messages of congratulations to Cuban leaders on their country's success in holding an extraordinary legislative session of the National Assembly of People's Power and electing a president of the Republic of Cuba.
Premier Li Keqiang called to strengthen the authority and effectiveness of the World Trade Organization amid its reforms, when meeting with leaders of six key international organizations, such as the WTO, on Tuesday.
Pre-owned home prices in major first and second-tier cities had declined for three months in a row, and all the 22 hot spot cities the NBS tracked reported a month-on-month price drop for their preowned home prices in December, showing signs of reaching a turning point, said Zhang Dawei, chief analyst at Centaline Property Agency Ltd.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a statement released late on Thursday night said he was confident of establishing a strong parliament following the SLPP's victory.
President Xi Jinping addresses the Climate Ambition Summit via video link on Dec 12, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
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President Jair Bolsonaro's government has proposed moving powerful incarcerated drug lords to federal lockups, and building more prisons at the state level. But with the vast majority of prisons run by Brazil's overstretched state governments, Bolsonaro is likely limited in terms of what he can achieve from Brasilia.
Pompeo told the audience that he believed the WHO was a "political not a science-based organization" and accused WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of being too close to Beijing. He added that he was saying "on a firm intelligence foundation, a deal was made" with China to allow Tedros to win election in 2017.