Smart transportation can help get rid of traffic jams that afflict big cities within a decade, said Baidu co-founder and CEO Robin Li on Monday.

百度联合创始人兼首席执行官李彦宏周一表示，智能交通可以在十年内帮助解决困扰大城市的交通堵塞问题。

Ford Motor Co said on Monday it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days at a plant in Michigan in cooperation with General Electric's healthcare unit, and can then build 30,000 per month as needed to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus.

The World Health Organization has estimated that there are 600 million people in China afflicted with myopia, accounting for nearly half of its population.

China is the first market, and then other markets like India and European cities that are afflicted with polluted air like London and Paris.

Crowley has led a personal struggle to save his daughter and son, who are afflicted with Pompe disease.

China's robust economic rebound has delivered very positive signals to not only Asia, but also the world, providing valuable certainty for a world afflicted with uncertainties, said BFA Secretary-General Li Baodong during the forum.

The resource-rich region has been long afflicted by industrial overcapacity, shrinking resources and the outflow of talent.

- As the world economy is grappling amid the COVID-19 pandemic, those deeply afflicted multinational firms are getting a boost in China, one of the world's largest consumer markets, which has helped instill hope into the recovery of global economy.

Wang Bin, general manager of Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharma China, said that one obvious change in the domestic biopharma industry over the past decade is that the R&D focus shifted toward disease categories that afflict Chinese more often.

Moreover, among those with hair loss, 84 percent lost their hair before the age of 30, 20 years earlier than previous generations, reflecting a trend of people being afflicted at a younger age.

El Salvador, for example, could use a shipyard for building boats needed for industrial-scale fishing, or machinery to capture and channel water for use in areas afflicted by drought, said the minister.

It has been afflicted by deteriorating sales in the country for at least two years, because of its slow introduction of models.

"In tandem with the rapid growth, China's internet finance industry is afflicted with Ponzi schemes and some companies deviate from their main business to seek hefty profits," said Li Bo, a researcher with the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank.