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ggling, illegal marriage and fraud,” Guo Lin, a ministry spokeswoman, said at a news conference on Friday.

Police from the six countries conducted a joint campaign from July to December.

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e news released at the Tesla shareholders’ meeting, according to National Business Daily.

With an investment of over 50 billion yuan ($7.22 billion), the Shanghai plant, or Gigafactory 3, is the co

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China is the world’s largest new energy automobile market, so

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hina has a large youth population, with more than 248 mil

Despite a busy schedule, Xi still tries to find time to interact with children.

He has extended greetings to children nationwide every International Children‘s Day since he became

president in 2013, showing his care for their growth and his hope for them to carry on endeavors to realize the nation’s dreams.

International Children’s Day falls on June 1 every year.

In May 2013, while inspecting a school devastated by an earthquake in Sichuan province, Xi t

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When visiting a primary school in Beijing’s Haidian district in 2014, Xi spoke of the

need to guide children to set high goals and create conditions for them to grow into adulthood.

On June 1, 2015, when speaking to members of the Young Pioneers of China in Bei

jing, Xi called on all Chinese children to learn to be people of integrity, knowledge and responsibility from an early age.