In 2016, China's imported goods and services accounted for 9.7 percent of the global total, up from 8.4 percent in 2011. During these six years, percentages of the imported goods of services from the United States, the eurozone and Japan over total global imports decreased by 0.4 percentage points.
In 1989, Los Angeles teachers walked out in a strike that lasted nine days.
In 1992, 26-year-old Turkish businessman Murat Kolbasi visited Shanghai and found the secret of the Chinese gadgets that beat his products in the European market.
In 2015, the country exported 112.4 million metric tons of steel and the same fell by 3.5 percent to 108.4 million tons in 2016. In 2017, the exports were only 75.4 million tons, while steel production was 831.7 million tons, according to the National Development and Reform Commission and the General Administration of Customs.
In 2007, the brothers founded their own factory; and in 2008, they received an order for 2,000 guitars from Tagima, the top brand in Brazil, via an international guitar exhibition held in Shanghai. Since then, their guitar business kept growing and became a runaway success.
In 2015, 22 tourism agencies from China and Russia agreed to conduct red tours during a tourism exchange program held in Shaoshan, birthplace of Mao Zedong. As direct flight routes continue to open and disposable income increases, more and more such tours have hit the road.
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In 2013, Caldeira came to the coastal city of Xiamen in East China's Fujian province, to learn Chinese. Inspired by the city's entrepreneurial environment, Caldeira started his own company, Marco Stones, selling finished Chinese stone products to South America.
Improvements are planned to the airport's operation resources, such as improving the runway and taxiway system, increasing the number of spaces on the ground for aircraft and enhancing shuttle efficiency. On the other hand, the airport will optimize flight slots and improve availability during its peak hours of operation, the airport's president, Han Zhiliang, said at the Beijing Global Friend Airports CEO Forum, a conference of the civil aviation industry.
In 2016, China became Airbus Helicopters' biggest civilian market in terms of annual orders. Given the rapid development of the helicopter emergency medical services, public services and offshore wind industry in the country, a potential demand for 600 light twin-engine helicopters is expected over the next two decades.
Imported merchandise hogged the limelight in Alibaba's iconic Nov 11 shopping festival this year. Without disclosing sales figures, the company said it took just over six hours for cross-border online transactions to reach last year's full-day record on Tmall Global.