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The 11th Five-Year Program (2006–10), announced in 2005 and approved by the National People's Congress in March 2006, called for greater energy conservation measures, including development of renewable energy sources and increased attention to environmental protection. Guidelines called for a 20% reduction in energy consumption per unit of ...
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) was signed into law by U.S. President Carter, amending the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to provide programs for employment and job training of people in their late teens and early 20s.
Wang Was born on 6 October 1955 in Nanshi, Shanghai. [2] He traces his heritage to Ye County, Shandong province, though he never lived in Shandong. Wang's name, "Huning (沪宁)", literally means "the peace (宁) of Shanghai (沪)", a typical name given by his Red Army parents, who fought in the Shanghai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War and remained in the city thereafter.
In 2004 Barbados obtained Approved Destination Status by the government in China. [291] [292] [293] Barbados and China are members of the United Nations [294] [295] and the Caribbean Development Bank. [296] Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the Barbadian prime minister visited the Chinese Embassy to personally sign the book of condolence ...
The first COVID-19 vaccine was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration on 23 August 2021. [363] By 18 November 2022, while cases in the U.S. had declined, COVID variants BQ.1/BQ.1.1 had become dominant in the country.
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.34% and have been launched 455 times over 15 years, resulting in 452 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
Voting was held in West Germany for the 496-seat Bundestag (which had 22 additional, non-voting delegates representing West Berlin). Although Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party (SDP) lost 16 seats and its coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) lost two, the coalition retained a 253 to 243 majority over Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU (Christian Democrats and Christian ...