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China releases Jan-Feb data on industrial output, retail and investment
No need to stimulate exports by devaluating RMB: central bank governor
China&`&s property market faces extra housing inventories: PBOC
China captures 24 economic fugitives overseas since 2015
EU top diplomat Mogherini meets President Castro
UN chief meets elderly Korean "comfort woman"
Pro- and anti-Trump campaigners argue in Chicago
Guangdong reports one new Zika case
Guangzhou to open direct cruise liner to Japan
A series of official economic data have been released today.
China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.4 percent year on year in the first two months of this year, compared with the 5.9-percent increase for December of 2015.
Meantime, China's fixed-asset investment grew 10.2 percent in the first two months, compared with the 10-percent growth recorded last year, while investment in the property sector rose 3 percent year on year in the period.
Figures also show that the retail sales of consumer goods grew 10.2 percent year on year in January and February, compared with the 11.1-percent growth for December.
China's central bank governor says there is no need for China to take special measures to improve the competitiveness of its exports.
Zhou Xiaochuan made the remark on Saturday during the ongoing annual parliamentary session.
He said China's products are still competitive in the global market.
Media have reported that the depreciation of the Chinese currency stoked concerns that China may count on the falling yuan to boost its foreign trade.
Zhou dismissed the concerns and noted the market should pay more attention to China's net exports, citing 600 billion U.S. dollars of trade last year.
In the meantime, he said a reform of China's financial regulation system is now under discussion.
The central bank governor also says China's property market is still under pressure resulting from high housing inventories nationally.
Zhou Xiaochuan said 70 percent of the housing inventories are in smaller cities, where the pressure of inventory downsizing is greater than that of bigger cities.
However, the first- and second-tier cities have been troubled with rocketing house prices.
Zhou called for commercial banks to have their own judgments, and take different policies in different places.
China has captured 24 overseas economic fugitives since 2015.
Among the people on China's top 100 most wanted list who have been repatriated, one-third of the fugitives have been captured this year.
The "Skynet Campaign" last year captured over 1,000 corrupt officials who fled the country.
The Chinese government aims to cooperate with the international community in the fight against corruption, in order to construct a law enforcement network.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has met with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana, shortly after the EU and Cuba signed an agreement to establish normal relations.
The pact is set to replace a policy imposed by Europe in 1996 that pushed for changes to Cuba's one-party political system.
It adds to Cuba's rapidly thawing relations with the West since its detente two years ago with the United States, and the renegotiation of debt with creditors from the Paris Club of wealthy nations in December.
The talks between the two sides comes just days before a visit to Havana by President Barack Obama on March 20.
It will be the first visit by a US president since the victory of Cuba's revolution in 1959.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met one of the 50 surviving WWII "comfort women."
Ban talked with Gil Won-ok, a victim who was drafted by Japan during the war, at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday.
An agreement in December between South Korea and Japan included an indirect apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a Japanese pledge to provide 1 billion yen or 8 million US dollars to a fund for the South Korean victims of forced sexual slavery.
Ban said he hopes the pact can be faithfully implemented under the guidance of human rights principles.
A rally in support of US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has been canceled due to ongoing violence and safety concerns at the event site in Chicago.
The announcement comes amid heightened concerns about violence at the GOP front-runner's rallies and four days before Illinois holds its Republican primary.
Hundreds of demonstrators packed into an arena. At least five sections inside the arena are reported to have erupted into protest before Trump arrived, and there are also reports of a chaotic scene outside the site.
Several fistfights between Trump supporters and protesters have also been widely reported.
A large contingent of Chicago police officers are working to restore order.
Guangdong has reported one new Zika infection.
It is the eighth imported Zika case in the sounthern province.
Local health authorities say the patient is a Chinese man who had traveled to Venezuela.
The 19-year-old man returned to Guangdong from the South American country on Feb. 29.
He developed a rash and was quarantined on Wednesday.
On Friday, the local disease control and prevention center confirmed the patient has Zika.
He is said to be in stable condition.
A new link between Guangzhou in southern China and Okinawa, Japan will begin service next month.
A cruise ship will begin sailing between Nansha port and Okinawa on April 17th.
The new service is being offered by Star Cruises. The six-day liner will depart Nansha every Sunday and return on Friday.
The company began a service between Guangzhou and Vietnam in January. Already, more than 17-thousand passengers have taken that journey.
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