Night view of Zhongshan, the host city of the 2019 Zhongshan Trade and Investment Fair & Top Talent Networking held in late March. [Photo provided to China Daily] The integrated urban-rural development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is expected to be the first realized in China and become one of the most important contributors to the nation's economic growth in the future, according to economic experts. National Economic Research Institute director Fan Gang believes the integration of China's urban and rural areas will be put on the schedule in the next stage of the nation's development after poverty is planned to be mostly eliminated by 2020. City clusters, like the one in the Bay Area and the two others around Beijing and Shanghai, are emerging to become a major drive to China's development, he noted. In the process, one of the most severe challenges is how to connect public service networks and then make them integrated, he stressed. Pilot zones are necessary to try some policies and measures, he added. He said the Bay area could be the experimental zone to promote an integrated service of public affairs, education and medical treatment. Leung Wai-ho, chairman of the Greater Bay Area Committee at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, agreed on the importance of regional integration but also admitted it is a very difficult journey. He proposed transforming the Bay Area into a big special administration region, a proposition that comes from his own experience of a cross-border loan dilemma. He said it is difficult for his Hong Kong-registered company to borrow a loan in the Chinese mainland, while it is also not easy to apply a loan in Hong Kong because his collateral - real estate properties - are in the mainland. He believes a big special administration region could help solve problems like his. The remarks were made at a conference organized by Singapore-based DBS Bank, one of the largest financial services groups in Asia. More than 300 company representatives and investors in the Bay Area participated the forum. blank wristbandscustom bracelets torontorubber wrist bandsbracelet montre silicone 14mmsilicone wristband
Soldiers escort coffins containing the remains of Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War during a burial ceremony at the Cemetery of Revolutionary Martyrs in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province, March 29, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] SHENYANG - A burial ceremony for the remains of 20 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War was held at the Cemetery of Revolutionary Martyrs in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, on Thursday. More than 300 people including government and military officials, Korean War veterans, and members of the public, attended the ceremony. I'm so glad my comrades are finally home, but it is a great pity they cannot witness the prosperity of our country now, said Li Weibo, 87, a Korean War veteran. Some 197,653 Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers are confirmed to have died during the war, most of whom were buried on the Korean Peninsula. According to an agreement between China and the Republic of Korea (ROK), the two sides arrange an annual hand-over of remains of Chinese soldiers found in ROK, which usually occurs before the Tomb-Sweeping Day. The remains of 569 soldiers were returned to China from ROK between 2014 and 2017.
