Your daily briefing on China

Hi, here is what you need to know about China in the past 24 hours.

SYDNEY -- Australia's major wool sector looks poised to sustain a return to strong growth, fueled by record high prices and robust demand from increasingly affluent Chinese consumers, latest industry figures and analyses showed.

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BEIJING -- China and Japan will hold their eighth round of high-level consultations on maritime affairs in Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday.

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NANNING -- The number of people who passed through the China-Vietnam border port of Dongxing in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region this year hit a record high of 9 million on Monday, the border control office said.

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HONG KONG -- Police of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Monday were investigating a robbery of a shop in downtown Hong Kong, where 14 luxury handbags worth 1.4 million Hong Kong dollars (about 180,000 U.S. dollars) were stolen.

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BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Monday called on all parties concerned to abide by relevant UN resolutions on the Korean Peninsula issue. Enditem