Alchemists believed that distillation released the essence or “spirit” of a substance.

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New HP Enterprise sees big opportunity in China

NEW YORK -- The newly spun-off tech giant HP Enterprise believes China is the real emergingmarket and there will be huge technology demand from the country in the forthcoming decades,said chief executive officer Meg Whitman Monday.

Xi urges joint efforts on climate change

China and France have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to increase their emission cuts every five years, according to a joint declaration issued on Monday.

C919 gets ICBC's backing in marketing globally

ICBC Financial Leasing Co, China's biggest financial leasing company, is to start promotingsales of the domestically built C919 airliner－the narrow-body aircraft being produced byCommercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd.

Senior official: US urged not to damage 'big picture' of ties

Yi Xiaoguang, deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, on Monday urged the US “not to do things that undermine the big picture of the China-US relationship” when he addressed the recent US navy entry into waters close to a Chinese island in the South China Sea.

China's CNNC may buy into French nuclear company

Areva said on Monday it had signed a memorandum of understanding for a possible partnershipwith China National Nuclear Corporation that could see the Chinese group take a minority stakein the French nuclear company.The partnership would also cover "uranium mining, front end, recycling, logistics,decommissioning and dismantling", Areva said in a statement.