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Hi, here's what you need to know about China for the past 24 hours.

DALIAN -- China will increase access to the service and manufacturing sectors, relax restrictions on foreign ownership, and treat Chinese and foreign companies on an equal basis, Premier Li Keqiang said Tuesday.

Li made the remarks when delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2017, also known as Summer Davos, in the northeastern coastal city of Dalian.

China will be proactive with opening up and create a business environment that is internationally competitive, Li said.

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BEIJING -- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not a military alliance like NATO and the regional body has no intention to target any country, SCO Secretary-General Rashid Alimov said here Tuesday.

In response to netizens' questions during an interview with Xinhua, Alimov said the Western hype labeling the SCO as a "future Eastern counterweight of NATO," which emerges from time to time, deliberately distorts the SCO's essence and its practical activities.

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SHANGHAI -- The Navy's new destroyer, a 10,000-tonne domestically designed and produced vessel, was launched Wednesday at Jiangnan Shipyard (Group), Shanghai.

The destroyer is the first of China's new generation of destroyers. It is equipped with new air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons.

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BEIJING -- China's top legislature on Tuesday adopted a law on intelligence to safeguard national security and interests.

The National Intelligence Law was approved at the end of a bi-monthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee which concluded on Tuesday afternoon.

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MANILA -- China has donated 15 million Philippine pesos (about 300,000 U.S. dollars) for the relief operations and rehabilitation of Marawi, the southern Philippine city plagued by clashes between government troops and the Islamic State-linked Maute group, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines said on Tuesday.

Zhao Jianhua, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, has presented the check to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

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