A bullet train is pictured at Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 26, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhou Guoqiang)
Happy International Workers' Day! Here is what's not to miss about China for the last 24 hours.
BEIJING -- The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation scheduled for mid-May is a high-profile international meeting on the Belt and Road Initiative, a China-proposed trade and infrastructure plan connecting Asia with Europe and Africa.
China will use the forum to build a more open and efficient international cooperation platform and a closer, stronger partnership network as well as to push for a more just, reasonable and balanced international governance system.
Here is what you need to know about the initiative and the upcoming forum. xhne.ws/3PTNx
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BEIJING -- China's major banks saw slowing profit growth in the first quarter, though bad loan rates fell.
Financial statements from China's five major banks, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) and China Construction Bank, showed slowing profit growth in Q1, with the first three banks seeing net profits plunge by over 70 percent compared with the previous quarter. xhne.ws/h1VWr
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TAIYUAN -- A small recreational airplane crashed into a tree, killing two people and injuring another on Sunday in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said.
The accident occurred at 5:41 p.m., when the airplane carrying two passengers attempted to land following a sight-seeing trip above the Huihe reservoir in Quwo County, according to the county government. xhne.ws/MLVWd
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KUNMING -- Police in southwest China's Yunnan province have seized more than 12 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, said local authorities on Sunday.
According to a statement by the public security bureau of Ximeng Wa autonomous county, police found a man driving an unlicensed motorcycle last Wednesday who appeared suspicious. When police asked him to stop for a check, the man ran off. xhne.ws/A8kkZ
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WENCHANG, Hainan -- China's Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at the launch base in Hainan, south China, on Sunday.
The launch vehicle departed from northern China's Tianjin on April 24 and sailed 1,670 nautical miles before reaching Wenchang, Hainan Province. xhne.ws/r3MD4
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BEIJING -- Parks in Beijing received more than 500,000 visitors on the first day of International Workers' Day holiday, said local authorities on Sunday.
The Summer Palace, Beijing Zoo and the Temple of Heaven are the most popular tourist attractions, according to the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks. The Summer Palace which topped the list received 80,000 visitors on Saturday. xhne.ws/bquTC
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HOUSTON -- More than 10 Chinese films were awarded here on Saturday at the 50th annual WorldFest-Houston, an independent international film festival, which ended on Sunday.
The Chinese films won different awards at the festival, but there is no doubt that it is a great success for "Reset," a science fiction supervised by Jackie Chan. xhne.ws/lallM
