BEIJING Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Womens , Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's passenger vehicle sales rose slightly in the first eight months of the year, industrial data showed Friday.


A total of 14.4 million passenger vehicles were sold in the first eight months of 2017, up 1.2 percent year on year, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).


Passenger vehicles sales grew 5.8 percent year on year to 1.9 million in August. Multi-purpose vehicles reported a 20.6-percent year-on-year drop in sales while sports utility vehicles grew 22.5 percent.


The association attributed the rise to the back-to-school shopping season in China and a stabilized economy.


Data from the CPCA showed China sold 54,000 new energy passenger cars last month Cheap Nike Air Max 270 , surging 25 percent month on month.


The robust growth came as China has intensified efforts to encourage the use of new energy vehicles to ease pressure on the environment by offering tax exemptions and discounts for car purchases and ordering government organizations to buy more new energy cars.


China has been the world's largest car market for eight consecutive years. About 28 million cars were sold in China in 2016, up 13.7 percent year on year thanks to preferential purchase policies and other government measures, according to the Ministry of Commerce.


Last December, the Ministry of Finance continued its preferential car purchase taxation policy but reduced tax cuts for 2017.


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TIANJIN, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Premier Li Keqiang said Tuesday that recent anti-trust probes had not targeted specific firms or industries Cheap Air Max 270 Dusty Cactus Shoes , and foreign companies accounted for only 10 percent of those involved.


By cutting red tape and strengthening monitoring in the past year, China has tried to cultivate an easy, fair and competitive business climate, the premier told a group of business leaders ahead of the Summer Davos forum.


China launched a series of probes into big foreign names in recent years, the latest episodes being anti-monopoly investigations against Microsoft and Jaguar Land Rover. These high-profile probes are rippling across the Western business circles and stirring unease among firms who perceive unfair treatment.


Apart from anti-trust investigations Cheap Air Max 270 Mens Shoes , China also cracked down on theft of trade secrets, intellectual property rights infringement and counterfeiting, the premier said, stressing that these measures do not target particular firms. The amount of attention given to the probes is a result of increasing transparency on the part of the regulators.


The regulative measures China carried out, including the anti-monopoly probes Cheap Air Max 270 Womens Shoes , are in accordance with the law, transparent and fair, the premier emphasized. It benefits China because more foreign firms and products will be more likely to enter the Chinese market if the environment is fair and competitive.


Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of global aluminum producer Alcoa, attended the event and was reassured by Li's remarks.


"He described the rules apply to everyone Cheap Air Max 270 Shoes ," Kleinfeld told Xinhua. "The premier has emphasized very strong desire to push reforms and to make a level play field. I feel very welcome and so do the colleagues."






LA PAZ, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on Wednesday announced the country's general elections will be held on Oct. 12.


TSE President Vilma Velasco told a press conference in La Paz that that the forthcoming elections for president, vice president and legislators will be historic as they will be the first to be organized by the electoral body and the first to include a presidential runoff if neither candidate wins by the majority of the vote in the first round.


According to Velasco, the potential presidential runoff will take place on Dec. 7. The new term will start on Jan. 22, 2015 and will last for five years.


Bolivian President Evo Morales Cheap Air Max 270 Dusty Cactus , currently serving a second term, has planned to run again and is considered a favorite to win a third mandate, while as many as 12 political parties in the country may also field candidates.



A second woman has accused Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick of rape, while he denies all the allegations.


Aurélie Wynn, a former actress Cheap Air Max 270 Mens , detailed her allegations in a public Facebook post on Wednesday.


"It is disheartening and sad to me that as a result of two unverified and provably untrue social media claims, there are some in this environment who could ever conclude I have had anything to do with such vile and horrific conduct," Westwick said in a statement on Twitter on Thursday. "I have absolutely not, and I am cooperating with the authorities so that they can clear my name as soon as possible."


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Wynn did not identify the cast member by name or name the city where the alleged act took place.





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