The first edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai closed with great success: 20,750 visitors came to the show from the first tier regions of China and the central regions with strong growth rate, as Sichuan, Hubei and Henan. An ...
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Insiders say there's a silver lining to stagnant box office takes in 2016. Box office takes for China's film industry remained stagnant in 2016, but most industry insiders see it as a blessing in disguise. Last year's box-office total was ...
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Beiyang (literally meaning "the northern ocean") Fleet was established by the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in 1871 as one of four modernized regional navies when the dynasty faced a crisis and launched a series of reforms. Though it was the ...
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Through his six-decade career, Han Meilin-who is well-known as the chief designer of Fuwa, the good-luck mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008-has always turned to Chinese cultural traditions for inspiration. The 80-year-old began ...
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Archaeologists unveil the tragic story of a historic sea battle more than a century ago as they excavate an ironclad warship, Wang Kaihao reports. An iconic Chinese warship and the 245 officers-soldiers and crewmen who have been keeping a ...
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China Investment Corp chief says it is seeking Belt and Road opportunities China's $800 billion sovereign wealth fund aims to be a long-term investor in international investments and increase its close work with partners to seek ...
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Despite the global economic slowdown and tougher competition to attract capital, Shanghai attracted $18.5 billion in overseas investment in 2016, marking the 17th consecutive year of growth. According to official figures released by the ...
China will permit foreign firms to be listed on domestic stock exchanges to expand their financing channels, an official said Friday. The firms will be able to go public on the main board, the SME board, the ChiNext board and debut on the ...
China's direct investment in the U.S. is expected to grow fast in 2017, but political realties pose major downside risk to it, according to a research report by a U.S. consulting firm. Chinese companies invested a record of 45.6 billion ...
Online retail volume of China's farm produce is expected to grow by about 50 percent in 2016 as more farmers use e-commerce platforms to sell their produce. Online produce sales might reach 220 billion yuan ($32 billion) this year, up ...
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An estimated 150 million flexible AMOLED panels for use in smartphones will be shipped globally in 2017, triple the shipments in 2016, according to industry sources. Apple will launch a 5.8-inch iPhone equipped with flexible AMOLED ...
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China plans to seal free trade agreements with 40 percent of the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, officials said on Tuesday. The nation had already established FTAs or is in talks with 25 countries and ...
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China's manufacturing activity expanded for a fifth month in December. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) came in at 51.4 in December, lower than 51.7 in November and staying above the 50-point boom-bust line for the fifth ...
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The yuan's so-called psychological threshold of 7 to the US dollar is not so important for the Chinese economy, analysts said on Thursday, after the central bank rejected an "irresponsible" media report that the yuan had fallen below that ...
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At the Peking University SOE Forum held in Beijing on Wednesday, China’s energy experts and scholars pointed out that the development of natural gas as an energy alternative to curb air pollution is crucial to China’s future ...
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