Zeeshan Shaikh

Personal income tax in China ranges from three per cent for monthly taxable incomes of RMB 1,500 per month (Rs 16000) to 45 per cent for taxable incomes greater than RMB 80,000 (Rs 8.45 lakh) per month.

It will be called Piyao, which means ‘denying a rumour’ in Chinese. It will include a website, a mobile app and social media accounts with social media giants Weibo and WeChat.

Modi and Xi, during their informal summit in Wuhan in April, reached a consensus on managing various aspects of India-China relations, including the two militaries, especially in the backdrop of the Doklam standoff. 

A video of the incident was posted on Chinese social media allegedly by the boy’s family, stating that a minor was assaulted by a government employee.

Couples have increasingly delayed having even one child as they devote more time to other goals, such as building their careers. The skyrocketing cost of raising children in booming China has also given many prospective parents pause.

The World Health Organisation and a Lancet report say that per capita consumption has risen from 4.9 litres per year to 6.7 litres. When non-drinkers are excluded, the per capita consumption soars to 15.1 litres annually.

The key aspect of the initiative will be to strengthen the “political guidance” of intellectuals and bring their “ideological and political identification” in line with the party’s overall goals.

Commentators see the imagery used as an indication of China planning to abandon birth restrictions and a likely announcement to this effect by the end of the year.

The move is seen as an attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to extend its control over religious life.

Video footage of the blast showed smoke billowing from a building and police forming a cordon outside the blast radius.

The outrage was not confined to social media platforms. State-run newspapers have also been critical about how the pharmaceutical industry is being regulated.

Keqiang's statement comes against the backdrop of growing nationwide outrage after reports emerged last Friday that Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology had sold some 252,600 substandard DPT vaccines to the Disease Prevention and Control Centre of Shandong Province.

Aamir Khan's Dangal continues to be the most popular Hindi movie of all time in China, raking in Rs 1300 crore which is nearly half of the total collections of eight Indian films (Rs 2784 crore) released in the Chinese market over the last three years.

China has also been promoting sea burials where unlike tradition where the ashes of the deceased are kept in smaller tombs, they can be interred into the sea.

In 2016, China and Pakistan had signed an agreement to launch a special remote sensing satellite. The main reason for signing the agreement was to monitor the development of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.

Dying to Survive has been released in the backdrop of increasing calls for cooperation between India and China in the pharmaceutical sector.

According to the UN, in just 20 years, the proportion of China’s elderly will double from 10 to 20 per cent (2017 to 2037) and rise as high as 44 per cent by 2050.

China's internet watchdog has asked Douyin to hold rectification programme and promote socialist values and patriotism amongst employees as penance

The system allows a selected group of citizens to log in to the public surveillance system around their neighbourhood through an app, monitor the area through their TVs or mobile phones and inform local authorities about “suspicious activity”.