VOA慢速英语2018 苹果股票市值达一万亿美元

Apples Stock Value Reaches $1 Trillion Total Apple has become the first American company to have the total value of its publicly traded stock reach $1 trillion. Stock in the technology company reached the huge number during trading on Thursday. 苹果公

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There is good and bad news about trees. The good news is there are seven times more than we thought. Scientists thought we had 400 billion trees, but we have three trillion. That's a three followed by 12 zeroes. For each person alive today, there are

TED演讲:我们如何研究生活在肠道中的微生物(1)

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2018年CRI Chinese SOEs see solid profit growth in 2017

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) saw 23.5 percent profit growth last year, a contrast to the 1.7-percent in 2016. Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that combined SOE profits rose to a record-high 2.9 trillion yuan, or about 450 billion U.

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US Commerce Secretary Expresses Optimism to 1)World Economic

Broadcast: Jan 25 2003 At a session reviewing prospects for the U.S. economy, Secretary Evans sounded a note of optimism.

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中国抛售美债增持日本国债 成最大日本债券持有国

China has become the biggest holder of Japanese bonds, the National Business Daily reported. 据《每日经济新闻》报道，中国已经成为日本国债的最大持有者。 Japanese investors sold 2.262 trillion yen ($20.1 billion) of U.S. bo

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Negotiators in Washington signaled publicly today that there had been little progress in reaching a deal to avert the fiscal cliff with 19 days to go until a year-end deadline. REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R-Ohio: I remain the most optimistic per

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What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, w

报告显示 中国移动支付规模是美国的近50倍

Payments made on Chinese smartphones are nearly 50 times greater than the number of mobile transactions in the United States, signaling a late-mover advantage with robust potential for the fintech sector, the Financial Times reported. 据《金融时报

China's new loans surge in June, raising inflation concerns

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- China's new yuan-denominated loans surged in June as the government moved to buoy the slowing economy, raising concerns that fast credit growth will push up inflation. June's new yuan-denominated loans rose by 285.9 billi

China's fiscal revenue up 14.7 pct in Q1

BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- China's fiscal revenue in the first quarter of the year rose 14.7 percent from the same period last year to hit nearly 3 trillion yuan (475.81 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Finance said Friday. The growth, thoug

600 million middle-class Chinese by 2020: think tank

600 million middle-class Chinese by 2020: think tank HAIKOU, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's rapid urbanization will greatly increase its number of middle-class people to 600 million and support an economic growth between 7 percent and 8 percent annually

Obama decries spending cuts, offers no long-term plan

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S.

Japan logs record trade deficit on tumbled export to China, Europe

Japan logs record trade deficit on tumbled export to China, Europe TOKYO, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Japan logged a record trade deficit for the April-September half-year, as sovereign debt troubles in Europe coupled with rising tensions with China over a t

Obama to Propose Deficit Cuts of Over $1.5 Trillion

Concluding a three-day bus tour of key midwestern states, President Barack Obama said he will propose that a bipartisan congressional committee find more than $1.5 trillion in additional spending cuts, a level set in the recent debt and deficit compr

英闻天下——148 Global Use of Yuan to See 'Major Leap': PBOC

The People's Bank of China, China's central bank says China will vigorously promote the opening-up of its financial market this year to attract wider use of the yuan globally. According to the bank, China has signed settlement agreements involving a

Japan bank lending drops 2.1% in Dec., money stock rises

TOKYO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The overall level of bank lending(银行贷款) in Japan fell 2.1 percent from a year earlier in December, marking the 13th straight month of decline, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said Wednesday. According to the central bank, t

CCTV9英语新闻：Yi Gang: current reserve is reasonable

The deputy governor of China's central bank, Yi Gang, said in an interview with CCTV that China's foreign exchange reserve is within reasonable range. Our foreign exchange reserve increased from less than 300 billion US dollars in 2002 to 3.99 trilli