This immediately reminded me of the scene at customs where throngs of Russians returned home with as many commodities as they could carry. Nowadays will Russians who first arrive in Blagoveshchensk wonder how many goods they can buy across the river?
China is accelerating plans to open up the financial industry with leading policymakers pledging to relax foreign investment rules to counter the decline of capital inflows.
US President Donald Trump has been perplexed by thorny issues recently including Pyongyang`s nuclear crisis, his controversial Afghanistan policy and unprecedented dissent within his administration.
"Sino-U.S. relations have so far seen unexpected stability and positive cooperation during U.S. President Donald Trump`s administration," Professor Wang Wen, a leading Chinese scholar, told Xinhua in an interview.
A Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress is always a major event, but even by that standard the 19th CPC National Congress, presumably starting October 18, will be of unusual significance. This is because since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 China has faced a new situation in its history and the CPC has therefore been tested in how to respond to this major turn.
The BRICS summit in Xiamen, Southeast China`s Fujian Province, was a success, showing the world that developing countries are determined to work together and build a more prosperous and equitable world.
Experts from around the world attended the 2017 International Green Finance Forum in Beijing Tuesday, at which they discussed how to make green finance mainstream around the globe to help deal with climate change.
The militaries of India and the United States are scheduled to hold the "Yudh Abhyas" (War Training) joint exercise in the US from Sept 14 to 27. The joint drill, an annual feature since 2004 that focuses on anti-terrorism maneuvers, will be held only two months after the US, Japan and India held the Malabar Naval Exercise-2017 in the Bay of Bengal. Also, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit India from Sept 13 to 15.
The authorities are leading an unprecedented overhaul of China`s drama sector, an industry that has been damaged by an over-focus on stardom and a chronic neglect of script quality.
With the UN Security Council passing new sanctions on North Korea, the possibility of armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula seems to be increasing.
The upcoming visit of US President Donald Trump will help yield positive results in Sino-US bilateral economic ties, experts forecast on Thursday.
Krasnokamensk was built as a result of uranium mining in the 1960s. Statistics suggest that the city`s uranium production was once 90 percent of the whole Soviet Union`s, and 10 percent of the whole world`s.
Stable diplomatic relations between China and Thailand have contributed to growing Chinese investment in the South Asian country in recent years, but some local people in Thailand are concerned about the trend and have not yet felt the benefits, experts said.
When director Guan Hu announced that his latest movie, Ba Bai (Eight Hundred Heroes), will kick off shooting in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Saturday, he was with Hollywood talent working on it.
The leaders of five leading emerging nations will descend on Xiamen, the subtropical island off China`s east coast, to discuss the future direction of one of the world`s leading country groupings.
With North Korea having seemingly succeeded in testing a hydrogen bomb at its sixth nuclear test, the world remains determined to find a final and effective solution to this problem.
Editor`s note: With "A Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future" as its theme, the ongoing 9th BRICS Summit in Xiamen, East China`s Fujian province, holds a lot of promise for not only consolidating the economic integration of its five member states, but also better global governance.
Middle-aged Chinese women, known as dama, who have gained an international reputation for buying gold and annoying their neighbors by dancing outside, have moved their "battleground" to local KTVs where they sing red songs on the cheap during the afternoon.
Now that the domestic and international community has reached a policy consensus on green financing, "a more arduous task will be capacity building at various levels", said Ma, who is also head of the Green Finance Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking.
An ICO is an online fundraising method, with some similarities to an IPO in the stock market. A cryptocurrency start-up issues initial tokens based on blockchain technology and sells them to investors in exchange for other established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Then the start-up can sell the virtual coins collected from investors so as to accomplish rapid financing.