The revised outlook comes as senior Communist Party officials convened in Beijing to deliberate on economic policies to turn around China’s struggling economy.

The new legal guidelines adopted by Beijing permit trials in absentia with the death penalty as the maximum sentence.

Tanker trucks, which had just unloaded coal oil, were immediately used to carry edible soybean oil, without any cleaning process.

More than 300 lawyers and activists across China were arrested on July 9, 2015.

Five Chinese nationals were arrested, including the network’s leader.

The local residents are worried about how they and their families will cope following the floods, as their homes and farmland have been submerged.

Tariffs of up to 37.6 percent on Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles go into effect July 5, initially for four months, but that could be extended into years.