BEIJING -- China's mobile data traffic rose during Spring Festival holiday as more people chose to send their greeting through mobile platforms.Over the holiday, mobile data traffic jumped 236 percent from the same period last year to 849,000 TB, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.On Feb 15, the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, mobile data traffic was up 245 percent to 121,000 TB.The Chinese Lunar New Year is traditionally a time for family gatherings and blessings, and with the increasing penetration of digital devices and improved Internet infrastructure, more people are using mobile phones to socialize.Data from tech giant Tencent's popular social media platform WeChat showed some 230 billion messages were sent via the app from Feb 15 to Feb 20, with 768 million people using the Hongbao, or red packet, service. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
TAIYUAN -- North China's Shanxi province plans to lift 26 counties out of poverty this year, authorities said Friday.Around 610,000 residents are expected to be lifted out off poverty in 2018, or 87 percent of Shanxi's current poor population, said an official with the provincial poverty alleviation office.As one of the poorest provinces in China, Shanxi had a poverty rate of 5.94 percent by 2016, 1.44 percentage points higher than the national average.Last year, 740,000 people were lifted out of poverty, lowering the poverty rate to below 4 percent, according to the official.China plans to eradicate poverty by 2020.The country lifted 12.89 million rural people out of poverty in 2017, with the poverty rate declining to 3.1 percent at the end of last year from 4.5 percent a year earlier.
