The 2018 ASEAN-China Year of Innovation and Forum of Innovation kicked off in Beijing on Thursday.The innovation year and forum are co-organized by China's Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore and the ASEAN Secretariat.Wang Zhigang, minister of science and technology, said, "The innovation development of China needs the engagement of ASEAN members, as well as the countries in ASEAN.""ASEAN members and China are well-connected neighbors who are also partners in good cooperation. The innovation-themed year highlights the consensus between ASEAN members and China on the pattern of innovation-driven development, which will lay a solid foundation for deeper and further cooperation in the future," he said.China and ASEAN members have worked together on food safety, disaster control and prevention, biological technology, and new energy.Innovation-driven development, regarded as a State-level strategy for China, will be a new approach inspiring regional and even world economic growth, according to Wang.The contribution of scientific and technological progress to China's economic growth rose to 57.5 percent in 2017 from 52.2 percent in 2012. embossed wristbandscheap silicone wristbands canadatriple single rubber band braceletcustom silicone braceletsnike silicone wristbands
URUMQI - About 1.2 billion cubic meters of water is expected to be discharged into the basin of the Tarim River, China's longest inland river, this year, to supply its lower reaches that dried up decades ago, local authorities said Monday.The far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began water infusion to the river in late February and is expected to transfer more water in July, according to the regional water resources department.More than half of the water is expected to go to the main stream of Tarim River and the rest to Yarkant, Aksu and Hoten rivers, among others in the Tarim Basin, according to the department.Xinjiang has infused 7 billion cubic meters of water to the dry trunk stream of lower reaches of the Tarim River in 18 rounds of water diversion since 2000, making the local forest of desert polar, a tourist attraction.The Tarim River runs 1,321 kilometers along the rim of the barren Tarim Basin, a sparsely populated area about the size of Poland.Excessive irrigation in the past used too much water, which caused the river's lower reaches to run dry in the early 1970s and push the trees to the verge of disappearance.
