Analysts point out that the Chinese government needs to take fiscal measures to arrest the decline in the price of goods and services and boost demand.
Greater China
Taiwanese politicians say Macao’s attempts to conserve the property are part of a plot to take over ownership of it.
President Xi Jinping and the former leader of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, have held bridge-building talks in Beijing.
Over 30 government organisations and bodies will undergo investigations aimed at rooting out malfeasance in the country’s economic and finance sector.
China says its production of solar products, electric vehicles and batteries will help not hinder the world’s low-carbon transition.
Visitors from the Macao and Hong Kong SARs, and from Taiwan, made up roughly 43 percent of the total number of trips recorded during the festival.
The quake is the most powerful to have struck the island in 25 years and has caused extensive damage in Hualien City on the east coast.