The new transfer payment mechanism is noteworthy because provincial-level governments only serve to pass these funds on to lower-level governments, and a supervisory system will be established to prevent embezzlement, said Li Jinghui, director of the Budget Department at the Ministry of Finance.
The net profit attributable to shareholders stood at 14.61 billion yuan, up 24.4 percent year-on-year. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of net profit for the past five years reached 32.1 percent.
The news also has implications for Microsoft, which last year joined Barnes & Noble as an investor in the Nook division. Apart from a Nook application for Windows 8, the partnership between the two companies hasn’t yet resulted in any new products or devices.
The new rule has been applauded by BYD. "With BYD's latest investments in our Lancaster plant we have the capacity to produce 1,500 buses a year," said Sheila Given, the spokesperson for BYD. "Like any growing market, we expect competition to grow in the manufacturing of zero-emission buses."
The new trains include features such as levers at doors that will roll out a ramp for wheelchair users or those with baby carriages, so they don't have to worry about crossing the gap between the train and the platform. There also are more emergency intercoms for passengers, wider door openings, LED lighting, automatic passenger-counters and closed-circuit surveillance cameras.
The new iBooks Author tool, available for free starting to day in the Mac App Store. (Credit: Apple)
苹果维修过东莞华普
The new vehicle is 100% electric and features various technology such as sensor detection, exterior cameras that provide 360-degree views, Alexa voice integration, and more.
The new area, about 100 kilometers southwest of downtown Beijing, mainly covers three counties of Xiongxian, Rongcheng and Anxin in Hebei's Baoding. That is, three less-developed small cities and 557 villages. The central government authorities said the new area will be built into a high-quality modern socialist city. Its mission, they said, is to help phase out ordinary functions and businesses that don't befit Beijing, the national capital, and restructure the urban layout in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The new policy, called National Sword, "stands to dramatically change the terms of those agreements with current contractors," Kerrie Romanow, director of Environmental Services Department of San Jose, said in a recent report to the city council.
The newly added total social financing, another significant financing gauge, increased by 1.36 trillion yuan from the same period a year ago to 11.2 trillion yuan in the first half.