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China's catering industry grossed 1.8 trillion yuan ($263 billion) in 2009, with a 16.8 increase from the previous year, according to a report by China Cuisine Association (CCA), the Beijing News cited today.
More than 7,600 computers in China were attacked by viruses in 2009, totaling more than 8.4 billion attacks, according to a report released by a firewall company in China, cited by chinanews.cn.
The ageing population in China over 60 years old reached 167 million in 2009, making up 12.5 percent of the total population and continues growing fast.
The world's bankers are still hard to agree with each other on what to do in the future, as reflected in their opinionns at Devos:
Despite the low key in the Chinese press about this year's Davos World Economic Forum,participants say the meeting is still about the two key economies in the world - the US and China.
"Don't be evil" is the corporate motto of Google, which is admirable for a profit-making company to uphold such a value system.
In the past four and a half years, the first thing Elise Ney does in the morning is to turn on the webcam that continues to broadcast panda Tai Shan's life live since he was born in the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC.
No Chinese player will lift the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup at Rod Laver Arena tomorrow night but the nation’s top women players walk away from the year’s first Grand Slam winners.
Shaanxi governor Yuan Chunqing unveiled an ambitious plan to build Xi'an into an international metropolis by linking it with the neighboring city of Xianyang.
An unprecedented total of 75.5 billion yuan ($11 billion) lottery tickets were sold in China last year, making 92 people rich with assets of more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million), the Yangcheng Evening News reported today.
A business center is to be built in the central area of Tongzhou district of east Beijing, with eight new subway lines planned, china.com.cn reported today.
The youngest British ambassador to China, 47-year-old Sebastian Wood, declared yesterday his priority in China is to visit eight cities in 88 days, the Beijing News reported today.
