China In 3 Minutes | July 8: France returns stolen antiques; stocks rout hits car purchases

General Secretary Xi Jinping led all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party in a visit to an exhibition at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression on Tuesday

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A stock investor takes a nap beside a line of computer screens showing stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing city, China. Photo: EPA

Published: 10:30am, 8 Jul 2015Updated: 11:06am, 8 Jul 2015

Politics and policy

General Secretary Xi Jinping led all seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party in a visit to an exhibition at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression on Tuesday, which marked the date of the start of the second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. (Xinhua)

Li Xiaolin, daughter of former premier Li Peng, has officially assumed the position of deputy manager of China Datang Corporation, one of the five biggest state-run power generation enterprises. She was previously the deputy manager of China Power Investment Corporation, another large state-run electricity company. Read full SCMP report

Diplomacy

France has secretly returned four 2,000-year-old solid gold antiques looted from China and bought by a billionaire luxury tycoon. Chinese authorities have been discreetly demanding their return via diplomatic channels for the past 10 years. (The Telegraph)

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China In 3 Minutes | July 8: France returns stolen antiques; stocks rout hits car purchases