Major events in September 2018
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September 2: Chinese President Xi meets UN Chief |
Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 2 met with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), scheduled for September 3 and 4.
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September 3: China has 32 airports handling over 10 million passengers annually |
China has 32 civil airports with annual passenger throughput reaching the 10-million level, the China Civil Airports Association said in Beijing on September 3.
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September 6: Xi meets Morocco’s Prime Minister |
Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 5 met with Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani after the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
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September 11: Xi, Putin vow to promote ties regardless of global changes |
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, expressed their firm determination to promote bilateral ties and safeguard world peace and stability during their talks in Vladivostok on September 11.
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September 17: China willing to share opportunities in digital economy: Xi |
Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 17 stressed that China is willing to share the development opportunities in the digital economy with other countries and called for joint efforts in promoting artificial intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humankind.
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September 18: Xi greets leaders attending Summer Davos Forum |
Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed foreign leaders on September 18 who are in China to attend the Summer Davos Forum, and he called for greater joint efforts in constructing the Belt and Road to better benefit their people.
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September 25: China to implement comprehensive budget performance evaluation |
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued a regulation about the decision to introduce the system, marking a key step to expanding the country's fiscal and taxation reform, and upgrading governance and budget management on
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September 26: China releases five-year plan on rural vitalization strategy |
China has released a five-year plan on its rural vitalization strategy, the first of its kind, mapping out a number of major projects, programs and actions, outlining key tasks for the 2018-22 period toward the strategy's overall goals.
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