Geography of China

TANGSHAN - After meeting with the governor of China's Hebei province, Xu Qin, in Tangshan on Tuesday, Serbian PM and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic said they had discussed various forms of cooperation.

Vucic said that the province, which has a population of 74 million, had a GDP of 500 billion dollars - many times more than Serbia.

SHANGHAI - Belgrade was named the most popular tourist destination at the April 20-23 Shanghai World Travel Fair (SWTF).

China launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier on April 26 amid rising tension over North Korea and worries about Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea.

State media has quoted military experts as saying the carrier, China's second and built in the northeastern port of Dalian, is not expected to enter service until 2020, once it has been kitted out and armed.

BEIJING/BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday arrived on an official visit to China, visiting the country's Shandong province and the cities of Qingdao and Jinan.

While in Qingdao, Nikolic spoke with representatives of the CNTC company, with whom he also opened the construction works for a Chinese-Serbian cultural village in nearby Laisi.

Hong Kong has been exploring options for investments in Bulgaria in the area of infrastructure, the Deputy Representative for Economic and Trade Affairs of that Chinese region for the European Union Sam Hui told the Bulgarian National Radio.

He said that Hong Kong could play a special role and was looking for opportunities for furtherance of cooperation with partners in Bulgaria.

US director David Boreinstein on Sunday took the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Golden Alexander for best feature over 50 minutes in the international competition for "Dream Empire," in which he exposes the lucrative albeit surreal business of hiring white males to attract property buyers in China's real-estate bubble.

Three major Chinese funds are planning to send missions to Athens in the coming days and months for talks concerning investment projects focused mainly on infrastructure, logistics and commercial real estate.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region will run more westbound trains on China-Europe routes in 2017 to boost exports, Xinhua reported on Jan. 6. 

Heavy smog in northern China yesterday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday. 

Large parts of the north were hit by hazardous smog in mid-December, leading authorities to order hundreds of factories to close and to restrict motorists to cut emissions. 

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