Still, until 2015, China's coffee market sales at 70 billion yuan accounted for just 0.5 percent of the global total. By 2025, however, it is projected to hit 1 trillion yuan, with an annual growth rate of about 15 percent, according to a latest report by Shanghai-based research firm CBNData.
Students from the nearby Durham School of the Arts were evacuated and classes dismissed for the day.
Subash Jayawardan, chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini TV Corp, said the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road links China's coastal cities with Africa and Europe through the Indian Ocean, connecting Sri Lanka and re-establishing the country as a new trade center in the Indian Ocean.
Stepping into the console market, which is the dominant gaming platform in Europe and the United States, is expected to accelerate the game's overseas expansion.
Students will be able to apply in January for a first year that will focus on the erhu, pipa and guzheng, all stringed instruments.
Stock investors at a brokerage in Fuyang, Anhui province, on Friday. [Photo by Lu Qijian/For China Daily]
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Such a situation, if it happens, would be akin to that seen in some emerging markets that have experienced hyperinflation and a sharp devaluation of their currencies, Li said.
Students in Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) also resumed face-to-face learning this week in a staggered pattern -- joining their peers in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, who had returned to classrooms full time.
Steve Franks, managing director of Water Babies, said: “China has shown us the way. It is our move into China that has prompted the company to build centers across our whole network. Without the scale of ambition demonstrated in China, it is unlikely that we would have considered building centers in Europe either.”
Subsequently, the country started to partially resume its economic and social activities.