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Li's company, Kunming Xinzhi Group, is China's largest private book retailer, with 58 outlets around the country. It opened its fifth overseas bookstore in late November in Sri Lanka. The 450-square-meter shop is the first in South Asia, but others have opened in Phnom Penh Andre Silva World Cup Jersey , Vientiane, Kuala Lumpur and Mandalay in Myanmar during the past two years.
"We have a medium-term plan that by 2015 we will have 10 bookstores in Southeast and South Asia. Our long-term plan is to have 20 around the world by 2020," said Li, the founder and president of Kunming Xinzhi, who began conducting market research into Southeast Asia in the mid-1990s, finally opening the first overseas store in Phnom Penh in Cambodia in November 2011. He found that the demand for knowledge about China and for Chinese language learning aids is growing rapidly in the region Andre Gomes World Cup Jersey , so the company decided to focus on Asian cities with large populations of ethnic Chinese and Chinese entrepreneurs.
"We are also considering Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal," Li said. "Our sixth store will be on the way when we can rent a proper place in any of those countries."
Li's confidence about future expansion is built on the enthusiastic reactions of readers in the five countries where the stores have already launched. At the opening ceremony, and during an earlier 10-day trial run Adrien Silva World Cup Jersey , the Colombo store sold a wealth of Chinese dictionaries, ancient literature, modern novels and language textbooks.
Xinzhi's vice-president, Yao Shusheng, who is in charge of overseas operations, said many students from the local Confucius Institute William Carvalho Portugal Jersey , a language school backed by the Chinese government, have flocked to the store.
"Our target customers are Chinese people who work in those countries, people of Chinese descent who want to know more about the culture, local people who are learning Chinese, and scholars and officials who are interested in China," he said.
"We sell the 'big culture' concept in our stores. Not just Chinese books Rui Patricio Portugal Jersey , but also audiovisual products, sports goods, gifts, even furniture and accessories," he said.
There are future plans for Chinese schools, galleries and cultural centers under the company's brand. "We need a multi-driven business model to support our overseas operations. After all Ruben Neves Portugal Jersey , the purchasing power for Chinese books in those countries can't be as high as in the domestic market," he said.
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BEIJING， Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Smog will hit some parts in north and central China starting from Sunday， China's national observatory warned， suggesting people in affected areas to make precautions.
The smog， which will hit Beijing， Tianjin， Hebei， Shanxi， Henan and Shaanxi， is expected to last until a cold front comes to the rescue around Thursday， the National Meteorological Center said.
People in the affected regions were asked to make precautions and choose public transport services to cut emissions and mitigate pollution.
Severe smog triggered red alerts in more than 20 cities at the beginning of 2017. When authorities issue red alerts， some manufacturers are required to cut production， and heavily polluting vehicles are banned from the roads.
China has a four-tier color-coded warning system for severe weather， with red being the most serious， followed by orange， yellow and blue.
In environment inspections last year， the Ministry of Environmental Protection said a total of 720 people were detained and 6，454 held accountable for environment-related wrongdoing.
In 2016， the government refused 11 high-pollution and high-energy consuming projects， involving total investment of 97 billion yuan (about 14 billion U.S. dollars).
Partly due to those efforts， Chinese cities reported less pollution in 2016， with the average density of PM 2.5 -- fine particles that pose health risks -- in 338 cities falling by 6 percent.
China is aiming for a 10-percent reduction in air emissions from 2012 levels by 2017 in cities at the prefecture level and above. Meanwhile， the PM 2.5 density in Beijing， Tianjin and Hebei Province should drop 25 percent.
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WASHINGTON， April 15 (Xinhua) -- Six in 10 Americans believe that wealthy Americans pay too little in taxes， according to a Gallup poll released Friday.
The April 6-10 poll was conducted during a presidential election year in which taxes have been a major area of focus for the candidates.
Americans' attitudes on whether upper-income Americans pay too little in taxes are split along political lines. Three-quarters of Democrats say the rich pay too little， compared with less than half of Republicans， Gallup found.
Americans are generally on board -- as they consistently have been in recent decades -- with the concept that wealth and income should be distributed more equally in the United States. Americans also tend to agree that upper-income Americans pay too little in taxes and that the rich should be more heavily taxed in order to achieve a more even distribution of wealth.
These attitudes are divided along partisan lines， with wide gaps in opinion between Republicans and Democrats， reflecting the starkly different positions of the two parties' presidential candidates on this issue， Gallup found.
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has made income inequality a centerpiece of his campaign， saying the issue of wealth and income inequality is the ""great moral issue of our time， it is the great economic issue of our time， and it is the great political issue of our time.""
Sanders has called for ""higher income tax rates for the richest Americans，"" while Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton also has called for the need to ""reform our tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share.""
Sanders' focus on income inequality in his campaign clearly strikes a highly responsive chord with his own partisans， although Democrats interviewed in this survey who support Clinton for their party's nomination are little different on these measures from those who support Sanders.
By sharp contrast， Republicans have called for simplified tax plans， which will end up reducing the income taxes all Americans pay.
Republican candidates Senator Ted Cruz and front-runner Donald Trump may find a similarly responsive chord among their partisans for their ""lower all taxes"" positions， with again little difference between Republicans who support one or the other for their party's nomination， Gallup said.
Inequality does not show up as an extremely high priority when Americans are asked about campaign issues， and relatively few Americans mention inequality or taxes more generally as the most important problem facing the nation today.
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SYDNEY， May 19 (Xinhua) -- An air quality alert has been issued for the Australian city of Sydney， as authorities conduct hazard reduction burns.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued an air quality forecast alert of poor for the Sydney region on Thursday.
""Particle levels are forecast to exceed national air quality standards for today，"" they said.
Sydney was blanketed in smoke earlier this month following similar hazard reduction burns.
New South Wales (NSW) state Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said more controlled burns were scheduled to take place in the coming week.
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He noted residents near controlled burns were encouraged to take sensible precautions such as avoiding outdoor activity in affected areas and keeping doors and windows closed.
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It is nicknamed "Micius," after a fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist who has been credited as the first one in human history conducting optical experiments.
In its two-year mission, QUESS is designed to establish "hack-proof" quantum communications by transmitting uncrackable keys from space to the ground, and provide insights into the strangest phenomenon in quantum physics -- quantum entanglement.
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China launches the world's first quantum satellite on top of a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 16, 2016. The world's first quantum communication satellite, which China is preparing to launch Black Chris Jones Jersey , has been given the moniker "Micius," after a fifth century B.C. Chinese scientist, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Monday. (XinhuaJin Liwang) China launches the world's first quantum satellite on top of a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 16, 2016. The world's first quantum communication satellite Black Kareem Hunt Jersey , which China is preparing to launch, has been given the moniker "Micius," after a fifth century B.C. Chinese scientist, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Monday. (XinhuaJin Liwang)
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"The newly-launched satellite marks a transition in China's role -- from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements," said Pan Jianwei, chief scientist of QUESS project with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The scientists now are expecting quantum communications to fundamentally change human development in the next two or three decades, as there are enormous prospects for applying the new generation of communication in fields like defense, military and finance.
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Quantum physics is the study of the basic building blocks of the world at a scale smaller than atoms. These tiny particles behave in a way that could overturn assumptions of how the world works.
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PARIS， Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Three climbers died Wednesday afternoon in an avalanche near the France's oldest ski resort of Chamonix in the Massif of Mont-Blanc of France， BFMTV news channel reported on Thursday.
Two women， a 32-year-old Slovak， an Anglo-Polish， 33， were found lifeless late on Wednesday evening. The body of their guide， a German man was discovered earlier in the day.
They were killed by an avalanche while they were climbing the Mont Maudit， according to the report.
The bodies were discovered buried under 50 cm of snow. They suffered "very important traumatic shock，" it added.
An investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the death.
NEW YORK Mitch Morse Chiefs Jersey , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar clung to its gainson Monday following a strong U.S. July payrolls report.
U.S. total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 inJuly, well above market expectations, and the unemployment rate waslittle changed at 4.3 percent, according to the U.S. LaborDepartment Friday.
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The European Council earlier on Tuesday extended the Sophia Operation, the EU's naval mission to combat migrant trafficking in the central-southern Mediterranean, until the end of 2018.
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WASHINGTON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The just-concluded China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Beijing has received positive reviews from U.S. experts, saying the talks have demonstrated the desire of both countries to advance their ties on a more positive track.
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A news report carried by the Wall Street Journal said this year's talks are "primarily about ensuring that the world's two largest economies don't fall headlong into hostile conflict, a dynamic that the last century proved can wreak global havoc."
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Gary Hufbauer, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics said the BIT negotiations timetable agreed by the two sides is "realistic" and "feasible," and is consistent with the economic reforms outlined in China's Third Plenum.
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