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The International Monetary Fund last Tuesday upgraded its forecast for China's economic growth in 2017 and 2018, reflecting the stronger-than-expected momentum of the Chinese economy in 2016. 上周二，国际货币基金组织(IMF)上调了2017年和

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TEXT I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few year, to be told anew in one form or another. However, I still

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A new study has listed Shanghai and Beijing as the most attractive Chinese cities for expats. The survey was conducted by International Talent, a magazine under the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. It gauged views of over 180 thousand

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When Jack bowed to someone, he always did it at lightening speed. You shouldn't wait any longer after he has had his head nod. So he was blamed for no manners. Then some warmhearted men taught him,

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Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining last Monday said that Chinese cities reported more good air days in 2016. 环保部部长陈吉宁上周一表示，2016年，全国城市空气优良天数有所增加。 Last year, the 338 cities mon

London's Theatreland

Rob: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Rob. Amy: And I'm Amy. Rob: Hi Amy. Today we're off to the theatre, to London's Theatreland to be more precise. Amy: Great! Theatreland. That's the area of London where many of

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 20 January 2008 Gaza Strip's only power plant has shut down due to an Israeli border closure that is blocking fuel deliveries. The generating station's shutdown late Sunday plunged large parts of the Gaza territory and many

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday unveiled the Obama administration's plan to remove bad debts from the banking system and restore the confidence needed for normal lending to resume. The new effort likely will cost a huge sum of ta

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Stocks in both the Europe and the US market soared after the ECB announced a larger-than-expected bond-buying program. But some analysts express worries that the program may help only temporarily. Robert Halver is head of market research Baader Bank

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BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- High-end residential market in Beijing experienced downturn in sales volume and price in the first quarter, fresh evidence of slowdown of the red-hot housing market, said the world's leading real estate consulting compan

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8 big cities in China have rolled out further property tightening measures in the latest efforts to rein in housing price rises. Those second-tier cities have tightened housing controls since Friday, with most banning home sales within 2 to 3 years a

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Puzzlingly low core inflation is not solely a European problem. America has seen it too. 令人困惑的是，低迷的核心通货膨胀问题不仅仅存在于欧洲。美国也一样。 Indeed, the Federal Reserve's experience of tightening policy

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Officials could opt to abandon their tightening stance in order to counteract the trade turmoil. But that might erase the gains from the deleveraging. 官方可以选择放弃他们紧缩的立场以求缓和贸易混乱。但这么做会抹去来自于

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He was driving home one evening, on a two lane country road. Work in this small mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the factory closed, he'd been unemployed, and with winter raging o

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