The service staff throughout the State sector simply did not have to make the gesture, much less crack a smile for customers.
Future historians will compare the 2008 Great Global Credit Crisis with the 1930s Great Depression.
On December 18, 1978, Coca Cola announced its return to the China market.
Made-in-China garments and textiles may still be favored items for middle-class shoppers during the current financial crisis.
China's manufacturing sector is feeling the impact of the financial crisis as demand from developed economies shrinks.
Nothing was simple back then: you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to get anything you needed, even just for normal office life.
With the US financial crisis starting to create ripples in China, the trendy young Chinese have realized the virtues of their parents' philosophy: A penny saved is a penny earned.
"It's time to travel overseas and go shopping in the US and Europe," says Zhu Hong, who works for a premier company in Beijing. "The US dollar and the euro are falling (against the yuan), so we can save a lot if we shop there now."
Shocking succession of corporate meltdowns signals a massive leadership failure across the financial services landscape.
Wang Yung-ching, a businessman who built his Formosa Plastics Group into Taiwan's biggest manufacturing conglomerate, died in the United States. He was 91.
The China Advertising Association publicly condemned 58 illegal infomercials on Sept 25 after an investigation by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce.
Air China Vice-President Fan Cheng was named Party secretary of Shenzhen Airlines on Tuesday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, adding fuel to speculation that the world's most valuable airline would take over the Shenzhen-based carrier.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | +1.62% | Fri | 3,317.41 |
| Shenzhen | +0.91% | Fri | 13,884.93 |
| HSI | -0.25% | Fri | 22,498.15 |
| NIKKEI | +0.45% | Fri | 10,022.59 |
| Dow | +0.22% | Fri | 10,388.90 |
| Nasdaq | +0.98% | Fri | 2,194.35 |