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WASHINGTON James Washington Jersey , Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- China has taken effective actions to protect wetlands and wildlife along the coastline of the country, Science magazine on Tuesday praised the determination of the Chinese central government.

China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced in its statement on Jan. 17 that it will dramatically curb commercial development of coastal wetlands, as well as nationalize already reclaimed wetlands that have not yet been built on.

""This represents a true 'sea change' in the official attitudes to the very large, and internationally shared, biodiversity values of the shorelines of China,"" Theunis Piersma Terrell Edmunds Jersey , an ecologist of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands told Science magazine.

Wildlife along the coastal areas also benefit from China's moves. Those wetlands particularly in the Yellow Sea are at the midpoint between East Asia and Australia, which are crucial for migratory birds between Siberia and Australia.

Ecologists also pointed that national wetlands protection laws are needed in China, and penalties for damaging these wetlands need to be strengthened.

It will be important to win over locals by demonstrating the benefits of tidal wetlands, including nature tourism and flood protection, said Nicola Crockford of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Britain.

Early in 2015, China created a ""red line"" to protect 53 million hectares of wetlands Ryan Shazier Jersey , and in 2016, SOA created 16 marine parks, bringing the total area with various levels of protection to about 124,000 square kilometers, according to the administration.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. top hi-tech leader Apple said Thursday that it has achieved an all-time high revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30 Maurkice Pouncey Jersey , 2017, with an increase of 12 percent.

The Silicon-Valley based hi-tech leader registered a quarterly revenue of 52.6 billion U.S. dollars, up 12 percent over the same period of the previous year, Apple said in a statement.

The record gains have pushed the company's quarterly earnings per diluted share (EPS) up 24 percent to reach 2.07 dollars.

""We're happy to report a very strong finish to a great fiscal 2017, with record fourth quarter revenue, year-over-year growth for all our product categories Cameron Heyward Jersey ,"" said Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Apple's products sold well outside the U.S. as the company said its international sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter's revenue.

Apple's Chief Financial Operator (CFO) Luca Maesti said the company has generated a strong operating cash flow of 15.7 billion dollars, of which 11 billion dollars went back to investors through its ""capital return program.""

Apple expects to generate about 84 billion to 87 billion dollars in revenue for its first fiscal quarter in 2018.


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China on Friday proposed holding joint drills in the South China Sea on maritime accidental encounter and search and rescue in 2016 with members of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN).

Analysts said this cooperative mechanism could help enhance China-ASEAN relations when combined with dialogues between officials and scholars to dispel doubts amid disputes in the South China Sea.

Addressing his counterparts from ASEAN countries at the informal summit on Friday in Beijing, Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan called for other defense chiefs to work together to boost cooperation, while properly handling differences to face common challenges.

Chang also called for maintaining the informal summit as a dialogue channel, as he urged militaries of all 11 countries to contribute to closer ties between China and ASEAN, the China National Radio reported.

China's relations with some Southeast Asian countries Le'Veon Bell Jersey , especially the Philippines and Vietnam, have been strained over the South China Sea.

As China completed its land reclamation in the waters, Washington recently announced to conduct freedom-of-navigation operations near Chinese islands.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly said that construction work is mostly for civilian purposes, and has warned that Beijing would not stand for violations of "its territorial waters" in the name of freedom of navigation.

"China's actions in South China Sea are justifiable and beneficial to safeguarding free navigation in the waters. It also shows China's responsibility as a major power to maintain stability in the region with controlled differences," Wang Xiaopeng, a maritime border expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Ben Roethlisberger Jersey , told the Global Times on Friday.

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Meanwhile, the defense chiefs of ASEAN countries will also participate in the sixth Xiangshan Forum, which kicked off on Friday evening with a record high participation of foreign experts and government delegations.

Jointly organized by the China Association for Military Science and China International Institute for Strategic Society, the three-day forum will welcome some 500 participants this year, over 400 of whom are overseas scholars or officials from 49 countries.

Apart from the defense heads of 16 countries, Anatoly Antonov Antonio Brown Jersey , the deputy defense minister of Russia, will give speech at the forum for the first time. Government delegations from the US, the UK, Japan, France and Germany will also debut at the forum.

Addressing the welcome dinner, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Xiangshan Forum will make a valuable contribution to building trust and fostering confidence by improving information exchanges and dialogues on the security and development of the Asia-Pacific region Jack Lambert Jersey , which has become "the leading region for global economic recovery and the catalyst for political stability in the region" thanks to China's economic growth.

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