Every Saturday, accountant Liu Xincheng, 28, makes special efforts to reach the SiSYPHE bookstore in central Shanghai's Joy City, a commercial complex, earlier than other customers.
Zhao Yi, a 20-year-old engineering student from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, compares his shopping list for books with his friends in Popular Bookmall on Shanghai's Fuzhou Road. The mall hosts scores of bookstores of various sizes.
Line Corp plans to use part of the $1.3 billion it garnered from last month's initial public offering to bankroll acquisitions of content and technology, transforming its messaging service into a one-stop shop for Asian social media users.
With China's economic growth slowing, it is becoming increasingly important for Chinese companies to gather new capabilities and gain more customers, said Paul Leinwand, a senior partner of Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting business.
Revived appetite for emerging market stocks and bonds is starting to include China - and even its currency yuan renminbi.
Interim results of the A-share companies for the first half showed earnings were strong, which could shore up market this year, experts said.
French authorities are beefing up security and have pledged to issue visas faster to Chinese applicants as part of its effort to win back tourists scared off by recent terrorist attacks on its cities.
Q+A: Didier Michaud-Daniel
Chinese companies investing in France are entering a new era of opportunity, one that is likely to continue with government officials and industry leaders expressing optimism for surging Chinese investment in France in the future.
French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics giant Pierre Fabre has vowed to step up its commitment to social responsibility in China to provide more support to communities in the country.
Argentina's energy plans for the next decade are based on its connections with China, Argentina's new Ambassador to China, Diego Ramiro Guelar, told China Daily.
Environmental protection and poverty elimination are the topics that Argentina's new ambassador to China, Diego Ramiro Guelar, is most concerned about for the upcoming G20 Summit, as he believes the basic rationale of the meeting is to create conditions for permanent world peace.
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