HONG KONG - Hong Kong's airline Cathay Pacific has conditionally agreed to buy Hong Kong Express (HK Express), a local budget airline, for HK$4.93 billion ($628 million), Cathay Pacific announced on Wednesday.
Called Toripalimab, and designed for treating skin cancer melanoma, the Chinese treatment was conditionally approved by the National Medical Products Administration under priority review on Monday, about nine months after the company filed its new drug approval application.
The new regulation classified autonomous vehicles into three types: conditionally autonomous driving, highly autonomous driving and fully autonomous driving.
The official said China encourages its four manufacturers of vaccine products that have been conditionally qualified in the domestic market to actively expand their exports.
A candidate vaccine of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) was conditionally approved for use on Dec 31, a day after the company announced results of its phase 3 study showing the vaccine to be 79 percent effective in preventing COVID-19.
Cross-province group tourism has resumed in seven regions in China by Thursday, as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism allows cross-province, city and district group tourism to resume conditionally, the Beijing News reported on Thursday.
In December 2018, China's first homegrown PD-1 treatment, developed by Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co Ltd, was conditionally approved by the administration under priority review for treating skin cancer melanoma, followed by the approval of another PD-1 medicine a few days later for treating Hodgkin lymphoma, which was developed by Innovent Biologics Inc.
By 2025, China aims to fully establish a system to encourage technology, innovation and investment; the development of controlled traffic environments; the implementation of laws, regulations and standards; product supervision and safety information about standard intelligent cars, as it strives to achieve large-scale production of conditionally autonomous vehicles.
The draft regulation classified autonomous vehicles into three types: conditionally, highly and fully autonomous vehicles, depending on the degree of their autonomous capacity.
The guideline said that conditionally and highly autonomous vehicles should have human drivers.
Conditionally autonomous and highly autonomous vehicles must have manual driving modes and corresponding devices, and be equipped with drivers.
L4 automation generally requires no human involvement or oversight, while lower-level automation such as L3 only conditionally allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel or eyes off the road at low speeds.
Australia has a phased reform program so that conditionally automated vehicles can operate safely and legally on the country's roads before 2020, and highly and fully automated vehicles from 2020, he added.