The regulation includes a lifelong accountability system that has been applied to other transport projects in China for years. "The ministry will devote equal efforts to investigate and handle quality issues related to rural road projects," Wu said.
The report attributed auto sales decline partly to the expiration of favorable purchase tax policies. China restored car purchase tax to 10 percent at the beginning of last year after setting it at 7.5 percent in 2017 and 5 percent in 2015 and 2016.
The report predicts four key trends for the pet industry: customized pet food products will become more popular; the application of intelligent devices for raising animals will become more popular; veterinary services will improve; and owners will spend more on new services.
The relief items, including tents, bed sheets, life jackets, blankets and rain boots, were handed over to Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake by Chinese Ambassador Yi Xianliang.
The report said that nearly 90 percent of the new social class of women have a strong sense of self-esteem, confidence, independence and self-reliance, and believe females and males are equally capable. Meanwhile, 70 percent say they struggle to balance career and family in real life.
The regulator said that violations in corporate governance, property loans and disposal of non-performing assets will be punished more strictly, and that it would strengthen risk control in interbank activities, financial products and off-balance sheet business.
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The report said 18 suspects selling fake luxury brand watches and scarves were captured in Fujian province in January last year after Alibaba tipped off local police. The suspects aroused attention as they borrowed the identities of more than 50 relatives and friends in an attempt to open online stores to sell suspected knockoffs identified by Alibaba technologies.
The regulator also approved the global property and casualty insurer Chubb to increase its stake in Huatai Insurance Group from 20 percent to 26 percent. It also approved the Hong Kong-headquartered life insurer AIA to begin preparations for the establishment of sales and service centers in Tianjin and Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province. This is in accordance with the pilot program on promoting insurance integration under a plan for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The remarks were made by Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai at a working lunch hosted by US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan in Washington on Thursday.
The remarks were made at the opening session of the 5th Belt and Road Summit, an annual event co-organized by the Hong Kong government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.