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SHENYANG air max 2019 pas cher chine , China, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The 12th National Games, billed as China's mini-Olympics, opened amid a scaled-down but spectacular ceremony on Saturday afternoon.

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the games in the Olympic Sports Center in the capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province. The games will run through to Sept.12.

The quadrennial games, which features all the 28 Olympic sports, as well as baseball, softball and Wushu air max 2019 pas cher en ligne , attracted 9,770 athletes including Olympic swimming champions and world record holders Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen and badminton superstar Lin Dan.

The 38 participating delegations are from the provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, the People's Liberation Army, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and various sports associations of the trades such as railways nouveau air max 2019 pas cher , coal mining, forestry, finance, banking and aviation.

In line with the frugality campaign launched by the country's new leadership, the organizing committee has slashed the budget by 78 percent to keep it to a maximum of 800 million yuan (about 130 million U.S. dollars).X The opening ceremony, which cost about 10 percent of the original budget, was for the first time held in daytime since 1987 to cut the the lighting cost. The stage decoration and firework display were canceled.

The ceremony was preceded by a mass Taiji and aerobics performance. Instead of inviting pop stars air max 2019 pas cher , the organizers sent sport-loving amateurs to the center of the stage. A contingent of senior mothers, or ""dama"" as they are known to the world, performed a ""fitness"" dance, a routine usually practiced in public parks and squares.

Competition had begun before the games' official opening. The finals of 20 events including tennis, marathon, race walking, senior volleyball and modern pentathlon have concluded.

The national games nike air max 2019 noir pas cher , a testing ground for future Olympic champions, has also been used to appraise the work of provincial sports authorities.

Sun Yang, dual Olympic gold medalist who broke a world record in London, is right on the way to be the most-titled athlete, thanks to the unique method to count medals, which converts one Olympic gold medal to two for the national games and counts one world record set during the Olympics as a gold.

Having won five national games golds without breaking a sweat, the swimmer from the southeastern province of Zhejiang is expected to compete in the men's 100m nike air max 2019 bleu pas cher , 200m, 400m and 1,500m freestyle events and three team events.

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SYDNEY, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vulnerable and low-income Australians are struggling to make ends meet according to a new report released Wednesday that calls for a review on skyrocketing energy and utility prices in Australia.

The report conducted by the Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) made a number of recommendations to government in order to alleviate some of the pressure that everyday Australians are facing when it comes to their ever-increasing utility bills.

In Australia, the poverty line is calculated using the same standards applied by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which stipulate that anyone who has an income of less than 50 percent of the average annual income is determined to be living in poverty.

From the most recent estimates from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), the poverty line equates to 400 Australian dollars (314.90 U.S. dollars) per week for a single adult - and in their October 2016 Poverty in Australia report - ACOSS estimated that 2.9 million people nike air max 2019 blanche pas cher , or 13.3 percent are living below the poverty line in Australia, along with 17.4 percent of all children.

At the time of the report's release, chief executive of ACOSS Cassandra Goldie was outraged about the lack of action being taken to ensure that those who are suffering in poverty in Australia are being adequately protected.

"The overall picture from the last decade is one of persistent and entrenched poverty across the community with an increase in child poverty," Goldie said.

"It is a national shame that after 25 years of economic growth, we have not done better at changing this trajectory and ensuring our most precious national resource, our children, are given the best possible start in life."

One such person who is currently living in poverty grossiste nike air max 2019 , and being affected by the increasing pressure to be financially sufficient is Lanfen - an elderly migrant from China highlighted in the VCOSS report - who moved to Australia 13 years ago to be closer to her daughter.

Lanfen, who has five stents in her heart and was advised by her doctor to stay in air conditioned areas during summer, was denied a cooling system by public housing officials in the Australian state of Victoria, who claimed they did not have the requisite funding to install air conditioning in her unit.

"In the end, I have to gather the resources to pay the rent, otherwise I will have nowhere to live. I can only save up in other areas of my life to pay for these costs. It's not something within my power to change," Lanfen said through a translator in the report.

Despite her belief that the Australian Government has been "very good" to her grossiste basket air max 2019 , and stressing that she is "very lucky," Lanfen hopes that the government will be able to assist her for what is a medically required need.

Lanfen's story was but one of many contained in the comprehensive report, and the chief executive officer of VCOSS, Emma King, told Xinhua on Wednesday that immediate action is required by the government, and energy retailers to address the needs of all low-income, and vulnerable people - particularly those without a strong command of English.

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