Miraculous road at Guoliang cliff corridor in China's Henan
Dough figurines made by folk artist in E China
Sea of clouds over meadows in NW China's Shaanxi
2017 national yoga contest held in SW China
57th Art Biennale held in Italy
Millennial Road staged in Beijing for Belt and Road Forum
Night view of Beijing during Belt and Road Forum
1,000th freight train linking China and Europe departs from Yiwu
BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Yao Ming, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and former NBA all-star player, was unanimously voted as the
president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) here on Thursday.
Yao, 37, became the first-ever non-governmental personage to take the position at the ninth national congress of the association which was founded in
1956.
The CBA Charter also got revised in the congress, making president the association's legal representative who used to be secretry-general.
As one of the sports icons in China, Yao landed on NBA in the year of 2002 as the first-pick of the draft, playing for Houston Rockets for 9 years and
entering all-star games eight times. He also led the Chinese national team to
the last eight in 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In 2009, Yao bought the Shanghai Sharks, the CBA club where he played as a teenager. And last year, Yao was elected as the vice president of the
newly-established CBA company which was in charge of the league's management and
business development.
Since his retirement in 2011, Yao has been pursuing the reform of the professional basketball in China.
LOS ANGELES, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was in "very grave condition" as he was treated for respiratory trouble at a Phoenix, Arizona,
hospital on Friday, report said.
An anonymous source told Agence France-Presse "the condition is very grave".
The heavyweight world champion, 74, was hospitalized on Thursday with a respiratory issue, which US media reported was complicated by his Parkinson's
disease.
WASHINGTON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- As China's economy shifts awayfrom producer model to one driven increasingly by householdconsumption, its appetite for
foreign acquisitions changed too.Brand and technology rather than energy and
commodity are now morefavored by China's outbound investments.
Chinese companies have been buying up natural resources over thelast decade puma the fur slide pas cher , pouring some 139 billion U.S. dollars into thetraditional energy industry, according to Bloomberg. However, thetrend
shifted in recent years.
The year 2014 marked a turning point when Chinese outbound mergeand acquisition (M&A) in technology-related sectors, includingthe Internet and
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of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago.
By 2016, China's annual outbound M&A in energy had droppedto just 2.8 billion dollars puma fierce core noir��, compared with 30 billion dollars in2012, data from Bloomberg's China Deal Watch showed.
While investments in traditional energy and commodity areas havebeen declining, investments in Internet and software sectors areskyrocketing. China's
outbound M&A in Internet and softwaretotaled 26.7 billion dollars in 2016.
China's Tencent bought a 5 percent stake in U.S. electric carmaker Tesla for 1.78 billion dollars in March, the latest attemptof the Chinese tech giant to
get into the potentially lucrativemarket for self-driving vehicles and related
services.
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RIGA, May 12 (Xinhua) -- A Latvian team of engineers and a parachutist have pulled off the first ever jump from a heavy lift drone, Apollo.lv news website
reported on Friday.
The 28-engine drone created by Latvian company Aerones took the parachutist to a 330-meter altitude for his skydive.
Aerones representatives told Apollo.lv that the successful experiment proved the reliability and robust payload of the drone technology which in the future
could be used for a broad range of purposes like rescue operations puma heart satin femme , firefighting, transportation, sports and entertainment.
Ingus Augtkalns, a skydiver and the author of the project's idea puma heart patent femme , said he felt fantastic as the unmanned aircraft was lifting him up quickly and effortlessly. "It is clear that we will
see drones being increasingly used in our day-to-day life," he said.
"Already in a near future our technology will be saving people's lives, helping extinguish fires and performing other challenging and important jobs.
With this project, we demonstrate our readiness for serious work and sport
missions puma heart patent blanche ," said Aerones chief engineer and the drone's controller Janis Putrams.
The jump from the drone took place in the central Latvian district of Amata on Friday, May 12 in cooperation with the Latvian State Radio and Television
Center which provided its 120-meters tall communications tower as a platform
from which the drone lifted the skydiver to the planned altitude.
Aerones is a Latvian drone technology company focusing on the development of large heavy lift drones.
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