Singles Day, which falls on Nov 11, is China's largest online shopping spree. During last year's event, consumers spent 1.48 trillion yuan (1 billion) buying goods online. E-commerce giant Alibaba, which launched Singles Day in 2009, achieved sales of 268.4 billion yuan during the online promotion last year, up 26 percent year-on-year.
Since the outbreak, 67 percent of surveyed Chinese organizations have found innovation to be critical or important to their performance and resilience, with the view that innovation is no longer an option, but a necessity.
Since the fourth quarter of 2008, average quarterly real GDP growth in China has been 8.2 percent year on year, while the equivalent figures for the United States and euro area are 1.4 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively, said Paul Sheard, executive vice-president and chief economist of American financial information service provider, S&P Global.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 however, GDP growth is no longer the only game in town. Quality and sustainable development, rising standards of living and social harmony are now included in the mix.
Since its establishment, the HNA subsidiary has founded around 20 companies, such as Changan Modern Logistics. It has opened three international freight airlines starting from Xi'an, with a current freight volume of 8,400 metric tons. It aims to build a high-value Belt and Road Initiative industry supply chain with Xi'an as its center.
Since then, no one could mine in the village without permission from the Liu gang.
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Since then, the 52-year-old mother has been collecting materials and turning to lawyers.
Since the DPP was defeated in the island's mayoral elections in November, Taiwan leader Tsai Ingwen's support has been decreasing, Zhu said. "She has no choice but to play the cross-Straits card, denigrating the principle of 'one country, two systems', to show ideological differences with the mainland," he said.
Since setting up local operations in China in 2016, the company has seen strong momentum in its European river cruise products tailored for Chinese-speaking guests. China has become Viking's fastest growing market and could account for 7 to 8 percent of its overall business by next year, according to Dash.
Since President Xi Jinping announced that the country would host a China International Import Expo from 2018 in his keynote speech at the opening of the Belt and Road forum in May, Shanghai, as this year's host city, has been making every effort to ensure it will be a world-class exposition.