Liang Yangyang, the cofounder of Wusheng Restaurant, displays the menu. [Photo by Zheng Tao/For China Daily]
Likewise, e-commerce company Alibaba, which owns China's largest web-based shopping platform, last week pledged no layoffs this year.
Like many other of the Chinese photographed by Click, Chow was a laundry worker. A well-educated man from a wealthy Chinese family before he came to the US, he told Glick that he “hated the job”, but it was one of the few occupations Chinese immigrants were allowed to do at the time.
Liang Ming, director of the foreign trade institute at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, a think tank of the Ministry of Commerce, said China's trade had achieved an eye-catching performance in the first three quarters.
Like Zhang, Liu hails from China's interior - in his case, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region - and in his mind, the ocean should be blue, pure, transparent and beautiful.
Li made his comment in a speech at the annual meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, also known as Summer Davos. Intellectual property rights will be strongly protected to stimulate innovation, Li said. Without an environment that respects knowledge and protects property rights, China cannot achieve innovation-driven development, he said.
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Li's remarks came as China's economy picked up pace in recent months, with retail sales up by 4.3 percent in October on a yearly basis, up from 3.3 percent in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
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Li made the remarks at the 12th East Asia Summit in Manila on Tuesday afternoon.
Li's technological optimism contrasts with a widespread pessimism about technology prevalent among thinkers from Silicon Valley.