Your daily briefing on China
                 Source: Xinhua | 2017-02-18 21:27:47 | Editor: huaxia

BONN, Feb. 17, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Bonn, Germany, Feb. 17.

Hi, here's what you need to know about China.

BONN -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson agreed here Friday that the two countries should work together for greater development of bilateral relations during the term of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Wang and Tillerson met on the sidelines of the foreign ministers meeting of the Group of Twenty to exchange views on bilateral ties and issues of mutual concerns. The meeting is the first of its kind since Tillerson assumed office.

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BEIJING -- China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.

The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet on planes and high-speed trains, said Wang Min, deputy head of the CAST's Institute of Telecommunication Satellite.

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BEIJING -- China and India will hold a new round of strategic dialogue in Beijing next week, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui and Indian Foreign Secretary Subramanyam Jaishankar will co-chair the dialogue next Wednesday, spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a daily press briefing.

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BEIJING -- Mongolian Foreign Minister Tsend Munkh-Orgil is to pay an official visit to China from Feb. 19 to 21, at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Friday that Munkh-Orgil would hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on cementing mutual trust, deepening cooperation and expanding people-to-people exchanges.

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HOHHOT -- More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, archaeologists said.

According to the regional institute of archaeology, the discovery was made during the excavation of a civilian tomb, dating between the middle and late Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.) and early Eastern Han Dynasty (25 A.D. - 220 A.D.), in Dengkou County, western Inner Mongolia.
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Your daily briefing on China

Source: Xinhua 2017-02-18 21:27:47

BONN, Feb. 17, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Bonn, Germany, Feb. 17.

Hi, here's what you need to know about China.

BONN -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson agreed here Friday that the two countries should work together for greater development of bilateral relations during the term of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Wang and Tillerson met on the sidelines of the foreign ministers meeting of the Group of Twenty to exchange views on bilateral ties and issues of mutual concerns. The meeting is the first of its kind since Tillerson assumed office.

- - - -

BEIJING -- China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.

The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet on planes and high-speed trains, said Wang Min, deputy head of the CAST's Institute of Telecommunication Satellite.

- - - -

BEIJING -- China and India will hold a new round of strategic dialogue in Beijing next week, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui and Indian Foreign Secretary Subramanyam Jaishankar will co-chair the dialogue next Wednesday, spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a daily press briefing.

- - - -

BEIJING -- Mongolian Foreign Minister Tsend Munkh-Orgil is to pay an official visit to China from Feb. 19 to 21, at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Friday that Munkh-Orgil would hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on cementing mutual trust, deepening cooperation and expanding people-to-people exchanges.

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HOHHOT -- More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, archaeologists said.

According to the regional institute of archaeology, the discovery was made during the excavation of a civilian tomb, dating between the middle and late Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.) and early Eastern Han Dynasty (25 A.D. - 220 A.D.), in Dengkou County, western Inner Mongolia.
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