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P3 Job fair for foreign talent to be heldMore than 200 fi rms will offer vacancies when the fair opens at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center this weekend

City’s robot production volume hits ¥100 billion

The number of the city’s enterprises engaging in robot production increased to 594 in 2017 from 469 in 2016. Bao’an, Longhua and Longgang have seen rapid growth in the number of robot manufacturers

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The State Administration of Cultural Heritage said yesterday that it strongly opposes and condemns the U.K. auction of a cultural relic suspected of having been illegally obtained from China

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll decide within two days on U.S. retaliation against Syria for a suspected chemical weapons attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime over the weekend

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Sofi a Chen made history last year by becoming the youngest Singaporean author to land a major publishing deal in the United States — with a Lego how-to activity book

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“A Quiet Place” — a newly released horror fi lm about sound-sensitive monsters that hunt humans — is causing cinema-goers to shun their snacks

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China secured a place in the 2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup semifi nals after an easy 3-0 win over the Philippines

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President Xi Jinping (C) and his wife Peng Liyuan pose for a photo with foreign political leaders and their spouses before the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Boao in the southern island province of Hainan yesterday. Xinhua

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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping said yesterday China will signifi -cantly lower the import tariffs for vehicles and reduce import tariffs for some other products this year.

“We will take the initiative to expand imports,” Xi said in a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference held in the southern island province of Hainan.

The country will work hard to import more products that are competitive and needed by the Chinese people, he said.

China will also seek faster progress toward joining the WTO Government Procure-ment Agreement, according to the president.

“China does not seek trade surplus; we have a genuine desire to increase imports and achieve greater balance of inter-national payments under the current account,” he said.

Speaking of the fi rst China International Import Expo to be held in Shanghai this November, Xi said friends from

around the world are welcome to participate in the expo.

“It is not just another expo in an ordinary sense, but a major policy initiative and commit-ment taken of our own accord to open up the Chinese market,” he said.

Meanwhile, China hopes developed countries will stop imposing restrictions on normal and reasonable trade of high-tech products and relax export controls on such trade with China, according to the president.

China will launch a number of landmark measures this year to signifi cantly broaden its market access, Xi said.

Late last year, China announced that measures would be taken to raise foreign equity caps in the banking, securities and insurance industries. “We will ensure that these measures are materialized,” Xi said.

China will accelerate the opening up of the insurance industry, ease restrictions on the establishment of foreign fi nancial institutions in China,

expand their business scope, and open up more areas of cooperation between Chinese and foreign fi nancial markets, he said.

On manufacturing, he said China has basically opened up this sector with a small number of exceptions on automobiles, ships and aircraft.

“These industries are now in a position to open up. Going forward, we will reduce as soon as possible limits on foreign investment in these industries, automobiles in particular,” Xi said.

China will improve the invest-ment environment for foreign investors.

Likening investment envi-ronment to air, Xi said that only fresh air can attract more investment from the outside.

“China relied mainly on pro-viding favorable policies for for-eign investors in the past, but now we will have to rely more on improving the investment environment,” he said.

Xi said that China will com-plete the revision of the nega-

tive list on foreign investment in the fi rst half of the year and implement across the board the management system based on pre-establishment national treatment — which means that foreign investors and their investments will be accorded national treatment in the pre-establishment phase of their businesses — and negative list.

“We will enhance alignment with international economic and trading rules, increase transpar-ency, strengthen property right protection, uphold the rule of law, encourage competition and oppose monopoly,” he said.

In March, China established a host of new agencies such as the State Administration for Market Regulation as part of a major readjustment of govern-ment institutions.

The purpose of this readjust-ment, Xi said, was to remove the systematic and institu-tional obstacles that prevent the market from playing a decisive role in resources allocation, and enable the government to better play its role. (Continued on P4)