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BEIJING Kevin Mirallas Belgie Shirt , Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- China plans to build up more vocational schools in poor areas as part of its battle with poverty, said the country's education authority on Monday.


Vocational education was one of the best and fastest ways to bring people out of poverty, Sun Yao, vice education minister, said at a poverty-relief forum.


The new schools will provide professional training based on local economic and social situations, said Sun.


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Sun also said China has provided various financial support to poor vocational students across the country, including free tuition, scholarships and student grants.


China is closing in on its ambitious goal of achieving a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020, with the baseline task of lifting all people out of poverty.


As of the end of 2016, there were still 43.35 million people in China living below the country's poverty line of 2,300 yuan (344 U.S. dollars) of annual income Romelu Lukaku Belgie Shirt , accounting for about 3 percent of China's population.




LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private spaceflight company SpaceX Monday launched a rocket from California, carrying 10 communications satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications, an American company providing satellite communications.


The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:37 a.m. PDT (1237 GMT) and about 7.5 minutes later, successfully first stage landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Just Read the Instructions" stationed in the Pacific Ocean.


Cheers and applause broke out in the SpaceX control room as the launch was streamed live online.


"Today's mission represents our 15 Falcon 9 launches of the year," John Insprucker Youri Tielemans Belgie Shirt , Falcon 9's principal integration engineer, said in a webcast.


Deployment of the 10 Iridium NEXT satellites began about 58 minutes after the launch and