Xi visits UK President Xi Jinping left for the United Kingdom on Monday. According to Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Xi would be greeted with a high-level reception. The president was honored with a 103-gun salute on the Green Park and the London Tower Bridge, and Queen Elizabeth held a grand welcome ceremony for him. After the ceremony, the royal couple accompanied Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, to Buckingham Palace. Tianjin relocates firms Companies that handle dangerous chemicals will be moved to the Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone following a deadly warehouse* explosion* in mid-August. The government of Binhai New Area in Tianjin has launched a series of measures to promote the development of the area, including relocating* companies that handle dangerous chemicals or goods. Retirement age postponed China will gradually postpone* its statutory* retirement age. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is set to publicize a reform plan on raising the statutory retirement age, said minister Yin Weimin. According to Yin, the current policy was formulated in the early 1950s when the average life expectancy was less than 50. The current retirement age in China is 55. KMT replaces candidate Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Party dumped* its unpopular candidate for the island’s leadership on Saturday. Delegates at an extraordinary party congress voted overwhelmingly to nullify* Hung Hsiu-chu’s nomination and selected KMT Chairman Eric Chu to lead the ticket in the January 16 election. Chu, the mayor of suburban* New Taipei City and a former accounting professor, had earlier declined to seek the nomination. But upon accepting it on Saturday, he said the election was too important not to step in.(SD-Agencies) |