'I cannot take it for free': President Xi tells local shoemaker

11:57, March 19, 2018

• Xi Jinping -- PRC president, CMC chairman

  The following is the biographical sketch of Xi Jinping:Xi Jinping, male, Han ethnicity, was born in June 1953 and is from Fuping, Shaanxi Province. He began his first job in January 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in January 1974. Xi graduated from School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University where he completed an in-service graduate

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  Turkey's Erdogan says hopes Syria's Afrin town to be captured by Wednesday evening

  Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen in Maryamayn in eastern Afrin, Syria March 11, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)President Tayyip Erdogan said he hoped Turkey’s military and its rebel allies would completely capture the northern Syrian town of Afrin by Wednesday evening, a day after the armed forces said it had encircled the town.Speaking to local administrators in Ankara, Erdogan

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  School bus carrying dozens plunges into ravine in US state of Alabama, death feared

  WASHINGTON, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A school bus with dozens of students on board Tuesday plunged into a ravine in the US state of Alabama, causing a number of injuries, including possible death, local authorities said.Emergency vehicles and personnel at the site of a bus crash on I-10 in Alabama. The bus was carrying high school band students from the