More than two million offline merchants participated in Koube and Ele.me's shopping event on Dec 12, a campaign initiated by Alibaba five years ago to encourage the use of mobile payments in dining, entertainment and other areas of hospitality areas.
More than 8.98 million complaints were lodged with China's consumer rights watchdogs last year, up 11.2 percent year on year.
Movie theaters in China raised their cap on seating to 75 percent of capacity starting Friday, up from the previous cap of 50 percent, spurring the further recovery of the world's second-largest box-office market amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
Moreover, in spite of a steady market recovery, many enterprises did not add staff in an effort to keep costs under control. This means that job recovery should remain a top policy priority, as it is essential for sustained growth in household consumption and the overall services sector, she said.
Most stocks rose, with gainers outnumbering losers by 710 to 662 on the Shanghai bourse and 1,163 to 852 in Shenzhen.
Mu Xiangang, a resident of Huamao village, Guizhou province, works a piece of pottery on a wheel. [Chen Zebing/China Daily]
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Moreover, leading players such as Alipay and WeChat Pay are making their mark in the outside world by moving away from the original function of simply facilitating transactions and embracing new activities such as wealth management, credit scoring and utility bill payments.
Ms. Naghmana Alamgir Hashmi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the People's Republic of China, addresses the audience at the screening ceremony of a documentary titled
Most forecast models predict temperatures in the Pacific Ocean will remain at El Nino levels through the remainder of 2018 and into the first quarter of 2019. The chance of a full-fledged El Nino, which is called as Super El Nino, during December to February is estimated to be about 75 percent to 80 percent, according to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization late last month.
Moreover, he was also optimistic about the prospect of innovation in China.