Sun Fuqing, deputy director of the legal work committee of the Shanghai People's Congress Standing Committee, said the series of measures is innovative and consistent with the municipality's quest to become an outstanding global city.
Supply-side structural reform will be furthered in the next year, with more efforts to improve economic quality, promote innovation, cut overcapacity and foster new growth drivers.
Sunflowers are blossoming on downtown Ersha Island in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province. [Photo by Zheng Erqi/China Daily]
Suning also reported an increase in dryer sales in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu this year, up by 35 percent for brick-and-mortar and online sales. During the week of Feb 11-17, it saw a 105 percent spike from the previous week.
Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego, said the Belt and Road Initiative could be a real way of building many friends for China.
Sweepers clean up the mess created by radical protesters in Admiralty, Hong Kong, on Monday. The glass facades of a public elevator were shattered by protesters on Sunday. China Daily
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TCP will build a new manufacturing plant in Beijing's Huairou district, which is set to be opened next year, said Saravoot Yoovidhya, CEO of TCP Group.
Sun Baifeng, director of the CI at UMass-Boston, said the platform is a small stage for all the contestants today, but they will a make bigger contribution between the US and China in coming days.
Sweden's Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer, is opening more stores and distribution centers and launching online services in 149 Chinese cities as part of its ongoing efforts to integrate online and offline retail channels in the nation, a top executive said on Thursday.
Super Fans Day on Feb 24, which is a promotion activity on Tmall, saw the brand gain 590,000 followers, and its sales reached 14.55 million yuan ($ 2.17 million).