Qi Xinghua is a dominant figure in the Chinese capital's nascent street art scene, Dominic Morgan reports
On a recent business trip, Liu Qidi, 30, a manager with a family-owned cosmetics firm in Wuhan, Hubei province, arrived hungry around 9 pm at her hotel room in Yichang city in the same province in Central China. For supper, she neither visited the in-house restaurant nor stepped out into the chilly weather.
App-based food delivery services have proved to be a great convenience for consumers, becoming popular in just a few years. Such apps perform similar functions, but target different groups of customers.
On the morning of the first weekend of each month, 28-year-old programer Liang Tianlong waits patiently for the recycleman to collect his household waste, including papers and bottles. Liang said he's gotten used to it after having done it for more than six months.
Aihuishou.com, one of China's online electronics recycling platforms, is ramping up its efforts to expand its business to smaller cities, pinning hopes on the potentially huge market, company executives said.
GEM Co Ltd, the listed group involved in urban mining - the recycling of metal, old electronics, batteries and catalytic converters that would otherwise be left to decompose in landfill - said it sees great opportunities in lithium battery reuse as China's new energy car sales rapidly expand.
Chen Kongguo was working on a piece of carving the size of his palm in a crudely decorated workshop in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, in December.
Every morning, the aroma of brewing coffee drifts across Xinglong, a small town in southeastern Hainan that boasts more than 180 coffee bars. This means the town, with its 30,000 population, has the highest density, per head, of coffee bars in China.
Shinzo Abe did indeed make history, of sorts, by becoming the first Japanese leader to visit the memorial above the wreckage of the USS Arizona in Hawaii and offering his "sincere and everlasting condolences" to those who died 75 years ago when Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
As of Dec 19, the box office revenue on the Chinese mainland totaled 43.7 billion yuan ($6.33 billion). Although the annual figure will almost certainly exceed last year's 44.1 billion yuan, it is much lower than the industry's 60-billion-yuan prediction at the beginning of this year.
A HOST OF TEAMS in the Chinese Super League, the country's top soccer league, have witnessed big changes in their major shareholders as well as squads after this season. The Brazilian midfielder Oscar, a former Chelsea player, is set to join Shanghai SIPG in January on an agreed deal of around $64 million. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Thursday:
AN OFFICIAL FROM THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S PROCURATORATE said it was difficult to collect evidence in cases of campus violence involving minors. He proposes setting up a special agency to deal with the crimes of minors. An editorial on Beijing News comments:
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