I had a punishing day's shopping recently. In less than an hour, I bought 12 liter-cartons of milk, the same number of boxes of breakfast cereal, 10 hairy crabs, a dozen pairs of socks, a couple of packs of turtle food, a replacement laptop power cable, and a 4-foot palm tree.
Next time you're stuck on a long-haul flight in a packed, economy-class cabin, being ignored by a frazzled flight attendant, spare a thought for the passengers on a recent flight from Melbourne to Chongqing in China. They were cows.
Passenger vehicle sales rose at the fastest pace in 10 months after the government cut a tax on purchases in October, benefiting carmakers like Great Wall Motor Co and adding to evidence that demand is rebounding in the world's largest auto market after a summer slowdown.
China will import more than 400,000 metric tons of forage from Mongolia next year to cope with the growing demand for dairy and other high-protein products, officials said on Wednesday.
China Overseas Port Holding Co Ltd, the State-owned company which operates the Gwadar port in Pakistan, has got permission to set up a special economic zone spread over 152 hectares in the strategic deep-water seaport.
Cheng Minggao is a fruit farmer in Nanfeng county, Jiangxi province, and is hoping the thriving e-commerce market will turn all his hard work into hard cash.
1: Do plan your shopping in advance. Browse websites before you place an order to check non-sale prices and to get an idea of the items you might want to purchase. Save time by adding products to your shopping basket as you go along, so you can check out faster.
If you are an expat living in China, you will probably have already been bombarded with messages about the most important online shopping festival of the year - Singles' Day.
At a factory office in Daxing district of Beijing, a sales team chat with their customers online in Russian.
China's direct investment overseas is expected to reach $367.3 billion by 2022. That will surpass the United States, making China the world's largest source for foreign direct investment, according to a report by a top think tank.
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