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Better Than Thanksgiving Turkey! China Fostering business and culturalInsight harmony between China and the U.S. VOL. 16 NO. 10 Nov–Dec 2017 Better than Thanksgiving turkey! Arts & Culture, pg. 8 This is the award-winning Family Heritage recipe at this year’s Minnesota State Fair. It is an old Cantonese standby. Who won and what’s in it? (See Food, p.6) Community, pp. 10–11 government & politics Xi Jinping lays out future direction of Party China Daily, Oct. 19, 2017 Applying a new vision of pursue development as the Party’s top from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of development and developing a priority in governance; we must unleash high-quality development. This is a pivotal modernized economy and develop productive forces, continue stage for transforming our growth model, To deliver on the “Two Centenary reforms to develop the socialist market improving our economic structure, and fos- Goals”, realize the Chinese Dream of na- economy, and promote sustained and tering new drivers of growth. It is imperative tional rejuvenation, and steadily improve sound economic growth. that we develop a modernized economy. our people’s lives, we must continue to China’s economy has been transitioning continued on page 14 People, pg. 11 In This Issue Arts & Culture 8 Books 12 –13 Business & Economy 5–6 Community 9 – 10 Community Snapshot 12 Education 4 – 5 Food 1, 6 Government & Politics 1, 13 – 15 History 7 News 3–4 People 11 Pronouncements 2 Sports 13 Society 4 Travel 16 General Secretary Xi Jinping and former and incumbent leaders of the Communist Party of China participate in the opening session of the 19th CPC National Congress in Beijing on Wednesday.Lan Hongguang / Xinhua PAGE 2 / November – December 2017 pronouncements www.chinainsight.info Publisher’s Pronouncements Greetings: an all-volunteer initiative, began in 2014, any Chinese New Year celebrations your ChinaInsight It’s not too late yet to prepare for our had lobbied Congress to award this highest organizations are planning. for inclusion in most challenging season of the year -- civilian honor. 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In general, to make fossils out of fossil-fueled ve- women in China generally fail to hicles. Shanghai recently just opened take active contraceptive measures its first charging station powered by because of lack of knowledge. photovoltaic panels capable of charging A group of history buffs in China The results were based on cars in less than an hour. spent USD45,000 and six months on questionnaire from 2,378 women In October 2015, China announced recreating Beijing’s old Summer Palace aged 20-40 from provinces China Briefs plans for national network of charging in Lego®-like bricks. The miniature throughout China and including Tech-gastronomy combo stations to accommodate 5 million elec- Baroque-style complex took 660,000 Hong Kong. Fifty-three percent of While the tric vehicles by 2020. However, unless bricks to build and stands 48 SF. respondents held bachelor degrees or U.S. is working the size of charging heads are standard- The old Summer Palace was built in above. Survey respondents showed: on driverless ized at all charging points and sufficient the 18th and early 19th centuries and was cars, China has 80 percent have misconceptions charging stations are available in major the imperial residence of Emperor Qian- perfected robotic about contraception. cities, one can imagine the colossal cha- long and his successors (1644-1911) and cooks while 36 percent used withdrawal as the os on Chinese roads, especially during was destroyed by the French and British also working on sole means of contraception. national holidays!♦ in the second opium war.♦ driverless cars! Yep, Shanghai’s Xuhui 5.5 percent believed a female District has a mini noodle shop that dispenses cannot get pregnant if the male a bowl of beef or pork noodles in 45 seconds didn’t reach organsm suring sex.
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