Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel China, said the impact on the retail sector during the Spring Festival holiday and first quarter period will be mostly visible in the catering, tourism and department store sectors. He said the low traffic to commercial properties is expected to hurt businesses in the outdoor catering sector such as Starbucks and McDonald's.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's imminent resignation will exacerbate a period of deep uncertainty for the world's third-largest economy, including on such issues as the fate of "Abenomics" and his long-sought constitutional reform, as well as a possible fierce battle to become his successor, observers said.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [Photo/VCG]
Jerome Qiu, vice-president of Holiday Inn Express, said the brand is going to expand in lower-tier cities through franchises. "Many of our existing hotels in third- and fourth-tier cities have received positive reviews," said Qiu.
Jiang Shengxia, Party secretary of the village of Panlong in eastern China's Anhui Province, did not believe she stood a chance when her village Party committee recommended her as a candidate to attend the 19th CPC National Congress slated for October.
Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel China, said more multinationals have started to consider influential business leaders from China as their independent director, to diversify board members and to showcase their attention and interests to the Chinese and Asian Pacific market.
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Ji Bingxuan, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said in a speech at the opening ceremony that the initiative of jointly building the Belt and Road has become a "China plan" for the country to participate in global opening up and cooperation, improve the global economic governance system, promote global common development and prosperity and build a community of shared future for mankind.
Jacob Kragh, general manager of Lego China, said: "We've seen more and more Chinese children engage with the world digitally, and the partnership will bring them safe and imaginative digital Lego content that also supports their needs of learning, development and entertainment."
Jeff Bezos differentiated Amazon’s approach from Apple during the company’s Kindle Fire HD event with a statement that he called the Amazon Doctrine: “We want to make money when people?use?our devices, not when they?buy?our devices,” he said.
Jeffrey Lu, chief executive officer of Mengniu, said the company has also started to adjust its strategies in China. It is building three digitally enabled plants for long-term growth and to serve as manufacturing bases for exports to countries in Asia.