China would like to make joint efforts with Italy to revive the ancient Silk Road and bring more benefits for the people, President Xi Jinping said on Friday.
Countries strive to replicate historic Silk Road’s world-changi
Mattarella said that Italy supports the Belt and Road Initiati
that was put forward by Xi, and the initiative is expected to promote the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent.
The BRI is also a road of cultural exchanges, he said, adding that Italy would like to enhance cooperation with China in tourism and culture. Italy ad
mires China’s achievements in economic development, and it appreciates China’s opening-up policies, he said.
Both Italy and China are ancient civilizations, and the people of the two countries have sufficient wisdom to deal with
challenges nowadays, he said, adding that China’s rejuvenation will bring new contributions to peace and prosperity.
China will take a solid step toward becoming a high-income country this year,
reating more space to deepen reform and expand opening-up, economists said on Friday.
A more balanced growth pattern will help the world’s second-largest ec
onomy pass the “middle-income trap”, with consumption and high-tech man
ufacturing leading growth, they said at a Beijing seminar leading up to the 2019 China Development Forum, which starts on Saturday.
Paving stone dedicated to ‘friend’ from China unveiled at Uppingham
attending the unveiling ceremony for a paving stone dedicated to Charles Cao Quin, senior advisor on China-UK partnerships at the school.
Over the past years, Charles Cao Quin of the Beijing Conservatory has worked closely with Upping
ham School, an English boarding school famed for its rich tradition of all-around education, especially of music.
The school flew the Chinese national flag in tribute to the visit of Wang Yongli, minister counselor for education at the Chinese embassy in London.
Charles was the first person from China honored with an engraved paving slab in his name.
Doctor Richard Maloney, headmaster of Uppingham School, praised that Charles has contr
ibuted a lot to the communication between China and the UK in terms of music and education partnership.
The office was established after Kim and South Korean Preside
nt Moon Jae-in met at the DMZ for an historic summit last year, which was follow
ed by a meeting between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore.
Pyongyang said it would notify Seoul regarding “further practical matters in the future.”
In the statement, the Unification Ministry said South Korea regrets the decisi
on, and urged the North to return soon and continue the work being done at the liaison office towards a full peace settlement.
”We regard such a withdrawal as very sad and unfortunate (and) we hop
e that the North will return shortly and hope that the liaison contact office will operate nor
mally as soon as possible,” Vice Minister of Unification Chun Hae-sung said at a press conference in Seoul Friday.
”We believe that we should take some time to judge (the situation).”
North Korea’s pull-out Friday from the Kaesong Liason Office has been on cards since Hanoi, given recent
Greater opening-up pledged to bolster education meets
China will expand opening-up in education, enhance mutual learning with different countri
es and jointly push forward the development of education, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.
Xi made the remark during a meeting with Ha
rvard University President Lawrence Bacow at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Xi said China advocates mutual learning, encourages its students to
study overseas and supports exchanges and cooperation in education with other countries.
He said he hopes more positive outcomes can be achieved from people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States.
Bilateral exchanges and cooperation in education are impor
tant for China-US relations because they help enhance public support for those relations, he said.
Xi added that he is glad that US President Donald Trump
also voiced his support for bilateral exchanges and cooperation in education during their meeting at the G20 Summit in Argentina in December.
The rising level of education has been a major contributor to
China’s rapid development in its 40 years of reform and opening-up, he said.
China remains committed to advancing the modernization of its education, making
itself an education powerhouse and developing education that people are satisfied with, he added.
During this process, China is willing to conduct broader exchanges and cooper
ation with education and research institutions including Harvard University, he said.
Bacow, who last year became the 29th president of Harvard U
niversity, said he is glad to make China his first overseas stop since his inauguration.
Taxpayers whose main business is postal services, telecom
postal services, telecommunications, modern services or consu
mer services will receive 10 percent additional input VAT deduction before the end of 2021.
An increase in the overpaid VAT following this round of tax cuts will be refunded.
“The planned VAT cuts must be delivered as soon as possible,” Li said.
“Their implementation must be closely monitored to ensure that tax burdens are meaningfully reduced
in the major industries and lowered to various extents in some industries. All industries will see their taxes go down, not up.
“In case of an increased tax burden due to inadequate deducti
ons in certain individual industries, the government will work out targeted solutions,” he added.
May’s spokesman said Tusk’s comments were in keepi
ing with her request for a short delay.She herself told a rowdy session of parliament that she c
ould not countenance the prospect of a long delay – which could give time for notional alter
native approaches to emerge, but would infuriate Brexit supporters in her own party.
”As prime minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than the 30th of June,” she said.
May said she planned to ask parliament to vote a third time on her departure
deal, which lawmakers have voted down twice. She did not say when the vote would happen.
”RATIFY OR EXIT”
If May cannot win over enough reluctant lawmakers to pass her deal next week, Britain faces the choice of reque
sting a longer delay or leaving the EU as planned on March 29 – without a deal to cushion the economic upheaval.
Some EU states, including Germany, had given a largel
positive response to May’s well-flagged request.
But French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said May would need to make her case before EU leaders in Brussels.
“Our position is to send the British a clear and simple message. As The
resa May has repeatedly said herself, there are only two options to get out of the EU: rati
fy the Withdrawal Agreement or exit without a deal,” Le Drian told the French parliament.
May’s initiative marked the latest twist in more than two years of
negotiations that have left British politics in chaos and her authority in tatters.
After the defeats in parliament opened up the possibility of Britain leaving the EU with
out a deal, May told parliament on Wednesday that she remained committed to leaving “in an orderly manner”.
A preliminary KNKT report said the crew of Air Lion Flight 610 stru
ruggled to override the plane’s automatic systems in the minutes before it plunged into the oc
