During the annual legislative session that ended on March 11, deputies to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, called for stepped-up efforts to curb pollution that endangers the health of China's mother rivers.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 14.5 percent year on year to 127.69 billion yuan in January, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday.
High-tech industries saw a rapid FDI increase of 33.6 percent in the first six months. Specifically, foreign investment in high-tech manufacturing rose 31.1 percent, while that in the high-tech service sector jumped 34.4 percent.
To reduce the number of operational staff and service volunteers, artificial intelligence robots have taken charge of disinfection, body temperature checks and environment monitoring against aerosol transmission of the novel coronavirus.
The GDP gap between Beijing and Shanghai is gradually narrowing, with the gap in the two cities standing at 111.4 billion yuan in the first nine months of this year, compared to 154.2 billion yuan in the same period in 2020 and 223.1 billion yuan in the same period in 2019.