A senior delegation from the Vietnam
News Agency (VNA) led by General Director Tran Mai Huong is on a
working visit to China from Nov. 3-9 at the invitation of President of
Xinhua News Agency Li Congjun.
Senior officials from countries along
the Mekong River including Cambodia , China , Vietnam , Laos , Myanmar
, and Thailand on October 15 gathered in Phnom Penh to attend the
Mekong Regional Forum on regional arrangement for disaster and
communicable disease emergencies.
Around 300 representatives from more
than 140 global media agencies gathered in Beijing on October 9 to
discuss challenges in the industry and ways of boosting cooperation at
the first ever World Media Summit.
China will issue 6 billion yuan (CHY)
(roughly 880 million USD) worth of treasury bonds in Hong Kong on
September. 28, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Authorities in south China 's Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region decided on September 3 to add 20 million yuan
(2.94 million USD) to a fund for fighting lingering drought in the
region, raising the total fund so far to 7.9 million USD.
China plans to have a nationwide
express railway network in place by 2012, capable of carrying passenger
between Beijing and most capital cities in China within eight hours.
Heavy rains have left at least 66
people dead, 66 missing and made more than 30,000 homeless since the
beginning of June in southern Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Jiangxi,
Hunan and Guizhou and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
China and Thailand aim to raise their
bilateral trade to 50 billion USD by 2010, the Executive Chairman of
the Chinese Business Association Lu Junqing has said.
At least 10 people died and over
110,000 others were reported homeless after heavy rain swept over five
cities in China's Hunan province from July 24-25.
More than 100 Chinese officials, led
by Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, will
attend the first round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue,
scheduled for July 27-28 in Washington.
The Chinese economy expanded 7.9
percent year on year in the second quarter, as massive pump-priming and
record lending pushed for a rebound from the worst growth in a decade,
according to local media.
A total of 336 people were injured and
more than 2,700 houses were damaged in a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that
hit southwest China's Yunnan province late July 9, Xinhua news agency
reported.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will
help develop a new technology that will substantially reduce greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions in China, local media reported on July 9.
Senior officials from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold their annual meeting in China’s eastern city of Nanjing on June 24 and 25, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced on June 22.
A European commissioner for external relations has called for strengthened cooperation between European and Asian countries on promoting clean and efficient energy.
China and Singapore are conducting a joint anti-terrorism training exercise in Guilin in the southwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that will run until June 26, said Chinese military sources.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
