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Premier underlines reform, opening-up, people's livelihoods
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for joint efforts to advance reform and opening-up, promote innovation, sustain economic growth and improve people's livelihoods while speaking at the ongoing national legislative session.
Joining deputies to the 13th National People's Congress from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Li stressed following the guide of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Li said as this year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up drive, local governments should not only fully implement national reform policies, but also launch tailored measures of their own to create a business-friendly environment for the benefit of enterprises and the public.
Local governments were also told to practise frugality but increase spending on programs for people's livelihoods and focus on poverty alleviation.
Diaoyu Islands belong to China despite new Japanese guideline: FM
China has reiterated its opposition to the new Japanese teaching guidelines concerning the Diaoyu Islands.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang was responding to questions on Japan's decision to add content in highschool text books saying that the Diaoyu Island belongs to Japan.
Geng Shuang said the "Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islets have been part of China's territory since ancient times, and the fact that the Diaoyu Islands belongs to China can never be changed no matter what Japan says and does."
Geng also says Japan should face up to history and reality and educate younger generations with an objective historical view to avoid making new trouble for China-Japan relations.
Crashed Russian military plane carrying 39 instead of 32: defense ministry
The Russian government says the military transport plane that crashed in Syria on Tuesday was carrying 39 people, not 32 as previously reported.
All of them were killed after the aircraft slammed into the ground while landing at an airbase in Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended condolences to the families and friends of those killed.
The Russian government says the plane was not attacked and a malfunction may have caused the crash.
The Defense Ministry has set up a commission to investigate the crash.
Sri Lankan president signs gazette declaring week-long state of emergency
Sri Lanka's President has signed an official notification declaring a week long nationwide state of emergency in the wake of violent clashes reported from several parts of the country.
A statement issued by the Presidential Media Division says the state of limited emergency started from Tuesday.
President Sirisena has appealed for peace and calm in the island country after violent mobs clashed in central Sri Lanka, killing one person and injuring several others.
The president issued special instructions to the police and armed forces to use emergency regulations appropriately and legally for the welfare of the people.
Last week, at least five people were injured when mobs clashed in eastern Sri Lanka.
White House top economic adviser resigns
U.S. President Donald Trump's chief economic advisor Gary Cohn has resigned.
The development comes after Cohn previously summoned executives from U.S. companies that depend on aluminum and steel to meet with Trump on Thursday, to persuade the presidentto drop his tariff plan.
Reports say Cohn had been mounting a last-ditch attempt to head off Trump's new tariffs plan on steel and aluminum.
Trump announced last Thursday that the United States planned to impose a 25-percent tariff on steel imports and a 10-percent one for aluminum, as these imports threaten U.S. national security.
Trump's tariffs plan sparked criticism from the Congress.
Child marriage declining globally: UNICEF
The UN children's fund or UNICEF says that child marriage is on the decline globally with several countries seeing significant reductions in recent years.
According to UNICEF, the proportion of women who were married before the age of 18 dropped from one in four to approximately one in five in the past decade.
25 million cases of child marriage have been prevented in the past 10 years.
The organization says South Asia has witnessed the largest decline in child marr 49 29963 49 14940 0 0 5439 0 0:00:05 0:00:02 0:00:03 5438iage in the last 10 years, from a prevalence of 49% down to 30%.
Sub-Saharan Africa now has the highest prevalence of child marriage, where 38% of women were married before they turned 18.
Chinese scientists find facilitator in Zika transmission
Chinese scientists have found the facilitator of the Zika transmission.
They found that a protein, obtained from the salivary glands of the yellow fever mosquito, facilitates the transmission of the Zika virus.
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Reseachers say the protein modulates the host immune responses to a mosquito bite, providing chances for Zika virus to spread.
Identified in the 1940s in Africa, Zika is primarily spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.
It can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus, leading to defects in infants.
Since 2015, the Zika virus has swept through more than 60 countries.
There is currently no vaccine or treatment for Zika.
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上期答案：The results show that the biggest individual winner was the populist Five Star Movement, which took around 32 percent in both houses of parliament.
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