BRUSSELS， Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Flash estimate of the seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.3 percent in the 19-country euro area， unchanged from the preliminary flash estimate at the end of last month， Eurostat said on Friday.


This figure has fallen back from 0.6 percent in the first quarter of the year while GDP of the European Union (EU) as a whole expanded by 0.4 percent quarter on quarter.


Germany， the largest economy in the single currency zone， revealed a slightly stronger-than-expected 0.4 percent increase， while Spain at 0.7 percent and the Netherlands at 0.6 percent.


However， France and Italy both recorded zero growth.


On a yearly basis， seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 1.6 percent in the euro area and by 1.8 percent in the EU in the second quarter.


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HOHHOT, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Over half a century ago, Huang Zhigang was a starving orphan in Shanghai. Along with 3,000 other orphans, he only was saved when he was taken to Inner Mongolia.


It is not customary for Mongolians to have a tombstone, but Huang, his brothers and sisters set one up for their foster parents Dowge and Zhang Fengxian in the Xianghuang Banner of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.


Every year in July Cheap Trevor Lewis Jersey , Huang, who has retired from his government post, and his wife visit the tombstone to honor their late parents, bringing peaches, liquor and flowers.


"If it were not for my parents, I would have died of starvation during the three years of difficulties," said Huang, kowtowing before the monument.


From 1959 to 1961 Cheap Nick Shore Jersey , natural disasters and famine claimed staggering death tolls in China. In Shanghai, orphanages were crowded and welfare institutions could not feed the huge numbers of children.


Zhou Enlai, then Chinese Premier, met with Ulanhu, secretary of Communist Party of China Inner Mongolia Committee and decided to send the children to the grasslands where there was enough milk and meat to feed them.


From 1959, over 3,000 orphans from Anhui, Jiangsu Cheap Jonny Brodzinski Jersey , Shanghai and Zhejiang were put on trains and taken 1,400 kilometers to Inner Mongolia.