The three-year-old Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) further expanded its membership to 100 with the approval of the African newcomers of Benin, Djibouti and Rwanda.
China's GDP expanded 6.3 percent year on year in the first half of 2019 to about 45.09 trillion yuan (about 6.56 trillion U.S. dollars), data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.
China has cut a total of 816.8 billion yuan ($119 billion) of tax in the first five months of this year, substantially contributing to the growth of its small- and medium-sized enterprises.