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CPC leaders stress efforts to build Xiongan New Area

The Chinese President is stressing the importance of the efforts to build Xiongan New Area into a "high-quality modern socialist city."

Xi Jinping, also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has made the call in a meeting with senior party officials.

The Xiongan new area was established last April, as a new economic zone about 100 kilometers southwest of Beijing.

It is the third new major New Area in China, after the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Shanghai Pudong New Area.

Xiongan New Area is expected to phase out some non-essential functions from Beijing, help alleviate population density in the capital, as well as produce new engines for economic growth.

5,600 CPC members punished in Jan. for frugality violations

More than 56-hundred Communist Party of China members and officials were punished last month, for violating the Party's frugality code.

The party's top anti-graft body says those people were involved in over 4-thousand cases, which included giving out unauthorized subsidies or welfare, giving and taking gifts and money, and misusing public funds.

In late 2012, central authorities issued the Party's frugality code, prohibiting government officials from engaging in hedonism and extravagance.

The party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection now has a monthly reporting system for the implementation of the rules.

71-thousand people were punished last year for violating the rules.

Chinese ambassador calls for building China-Britain "Golden Era" 2.0

The Chinese Ambassador to Britain has called for building a China-Britain "Golden Era" 2.0 and shifting bilateral relations to a higher gear.

Addressing a Chinese New Year reception, Liu Xiaoming says the two countries have everything in place to upgrade business ties, expand cultural exchanges and boost cooperation on global issues.

The ambassador's remarks come after British Prime Minister Theresa May paid a visit to China three weeks ago, during which the two countries signed a series of agreements related to trade, education, culture, science and technology.

China remains Germany's biggest trading partner in 2017

German official data show China was Germany's top trading partner once again last year.

China-Germany trade hit 186 billion euros in 2017, up from 170 billion the year earlier.

France was Germany's biggest trading partner for more than 50 years until 2015.

The US briefly claimed the position in 2015 before losing it to China in 2016.

But the US was the biggest export market for German companies.

China was the third biggest export market.

China set to overtake U.S. as biggest nuclear energy nation, IEA says

The International Energy Agency says China is set to overtake the US to become the world's largest nuclear-power producer by 2030.

The agency's Executive Director Fatih Birol made the comments at a conference in London this week.

The IEA head estimates China will more than triple its nuclear energy capacity over the next 20 years.

The US has been a global nuclear power leader since the 1960s, with nuclear power supplying 20-percent of its energy use.

However, Birol says there have been very few additions to the US nuclear capacity in recent years.

Data from the IEA shows more than a third of nuclear power plants under construction across the world today are in China.

Wu Dajing wins China's first gold at Pyeongchang

Wu Dajing of China has won the men's 500 meters in short-track speedskating at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

It was China's first gold at the Games.

Wu also improved on his own world record for the second time at the Games, in the final on Thursday, winning in 39.584 seconds. That's nearly 0.3 seconds faster than the mark he set in the quarterfinals.

Two South Korean skaters finished second and third.

Rain adds to troubles of stranded passengers in Hainan

Rain and falling temperatures have brought more worries to passengers stranded by heavy fog in Hainan Province.

A prolonged heavy fog has disrupted ferry services on the Qiong-zhou Strait.

The fog has affected tens of thousands of passengers, with many of them heading back home after spending their Spring Festival holiday on the island.

As of Thursday afternoon, about 14,000 cars were still waiting at the city's three ports, with some having already been stranded for over 14 hours.

Iran may withdraw from nuclear deal if no economic benefits are created: official

A senior Iranian official says the country may withdraw from the 2015 international nuclear deal, if no economic benefits are created for Iran.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has made the statement during a speech in London.

The official says U.S. President Donald Trump "has created an atmosphere of uncertainty, which is like a poison for the business community in working with Iran."

He adds that the nuclear deal would not survive, even if the US extends its sanction waivers.

Jin Yong's Chinese martial arts novel published in English for the first time

A Hero Born, the first volume of famous Chinese martial arts novelist Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes, was published in English for the first time.

British publishing house MacLehose bought the rights to the book five years ago and commissioned the translation work to Anna Holmwood, a professional focused on Chinese-English literary translation.

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The Times called the book she translated "hugely entertaining" and selected it as Book of the Month.

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