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Xiamen imported 563 tons of fruits from Taiwan in February, surging 70 percent year-on-year, according to the city s inspection and quarantine authorities. Major fruits imported from Taiwan include pineapple, guava and oranges. Taiwan fruits sell well due to their quality and ...
Photo by Yao Fan Celebrants marched in a parade on Taiwan Street in Xiamen on February 28 to celebrate Lantern Festival. Pictured is a dancing lion performance.
The average residential property price per square meter in Xiamen hit 11,083 yuan in March, surging 14.4 percent from the previous month. Authorities attribute the upsurge in the average price to the brisk sales of a number of luxury residential estates. The average price in ...
Starting this autumn, all kindergartens primary and secondary schools in Fujian will have a security office. Each primary or secondary school will have at least two full-time security guards, while each kindergarten will have at least one. The guards will be supervised by the ...
Fujian will build 500 community-based senior citizen centers this year and allocate 30 million yuan to support the operation of these centers. The centers will primarily cater to urban low-income, sick and disabled senior citizens, as well as empty-nesters. From http://www.common...
Hotels including Le Meridien (see above), Sheraton and Xianglu Grand Hotel switched off their lights last Saturday during Earth Hour from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. More than 900 shops and 10,000 households in Xiamen joined in the event. From http://www.common-talk.com
Fujian s total land cargo throughput in the first five months of this year surged 22.8 percent year-on-year to 182 million metric tons. During the same period, 315 million land passenger journeys were recorded, up 1.9 percent, although May trips were down 0.6 percent to 59.6 ...
Five higher-education institutions in Fujian will offer a number of academic programs in partnership with their Taiwan counterparts. Students enrolled in these programs will study at a Taiwan institution for a year. They will receive course completion certificates from their host ...
Xiamen and Taiwan businesses last week clinched nine economic cooperation deals and five procurement agreements each worth more than $500 million. XOCECO, a Xiamen-based TV maker, procured $400 million of LED panels from Taiwan s AU Optronics and Chunghwa Picture Tubes. Four ...
A total of 1,333 ferry voyages between Fujian and Taiwan were recorded in April, up 25.6 percent year-on-year, carrying 158,000 passengers, up 9.3 percent. The Xiamen-Kinmen ferry service carried 139,600 passengers, up 12.5 percent, while the Mawei-Mazu ferry service carried 6...
Fujian authorities have announced a plan to build medium-sized electric vehicle recharging stations in Fuzhou and Xiamen and 300 smaller recharging outlets in other cities by the end of October. These facilities will cost about 30 million yuan to build and will be able to ...
Photo: Xinhua News Agency The Fuzhou-Xiamen high speed rai line, travel time only 90 minutes, was heavily trafficked at May Day holiday.According to the Xiamen Tourism Bureau, there were 340,000 people visiting Xiamen during the three-day holiday, up 18 percent over last year. ...
The eighth China International Food Procurement Fair will take place in Xiamen from June 25 to 27. It will provide approximately 1,000 booths spread out over an exhibition space of 20,000 square meters. More than 100 food makers from over 20 Chinese provinces and cities and ...
By Morgan Lee Photo by Huang Guoqiang Laughter, prizes and awards were as free-flowing last Saturday as the beverages at an afternoon tea party hosted by the Foreign Taxation Division of the Xiamen Local Taxation Bureau. Jointly organized by Common Talk Weekly and held at the ...
Taiwan exhibit area at 13th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) At the second preparatory meeting of the 14th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), Ye Shuangyu, the deputy director and secretary-general of the organizing committee, vice ...
Photo: Xinhua News Agency The second Xiamen-Kinmen swimming contest was held on August 8, National Fitness Day. A total of 90 swimmers participated in the event, swimmers from Hong Kong and Macao for the first time. The first prizes for male and female swimmers were claimed by ...
More than 4.5 million travelers have ridden bullet trains on the Fuzhou-Xiamen railway since operations began on April 26. The railway has become the busiest high-speed railway in China in terms of passenger flow. The route carried 1.1 million persons in June. Local officials are ...
A joint research project by university students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait kicked off at Fujian Noramal University on July 29. During the program, 90 teachers and students from 12 universities will conduct research on Fujian geography. Pictured are students analyzing a ...
A total of 135,000 tons of aquatic products valued at $770 million were shipped from Fujian to the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the U.S. and other areas in the first half of the year, up 29.9 percent and 86.1 percent year-on-year, respectively. Fujian s largest market for aquatic ...
Fujian s seaports handled a total of 58.7 million tons of imports and exports in the first half of this year, up 25 percent year-on-year. Seaport traffic in the province was up 25 percent year-on-year. The throughput included 2.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units, up 29.6 ...
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