)Refusing to have a territorial dispute in the East China Sea, Japan is unlikely to talk with China over its settlement, leaving the waters near the islands a minefield

About 775,000 officials have been sent to impoverished areas for poverty relief work, said the reportSimilarly, the annual per capita income in impoverished rural areas has grown to 10

To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty

[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a yearFrom road building to subsidies, the central government has spent large amounts of money on poverty relief in places like Liangshan

The 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18

As all eyes are on the upcoming Congress, let's take a look at what international media said about the developments and achievements of China4 magnitude quake would be much smaller than the quakes caused by previous DPRK nuclear tests, the report said

After the incident, the center quickly organized seismological bureaus and geological institutions to evaluate the situation, it saidSeismologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California Santa Cruz also published a joint report on Saturday that said tests had shown the quake "clearly falls in the natural phenomena category" and was similar to the last natural earthquake in the region, which was recorded in December 2004

3 magnitude quake, while the strongest, this month, resulted in a 6"The incident was not a nuclear explosion, but had the characteristics of a natural quake," the China Earthquake Networks Center said late Saturday in a statement released online

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