This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-07 08:15
Item from China Daily, Aug 7, 1994: A customer tries a piano at the Wangfujing Hongsheng Musical Instrument Store in Beijing. Sales of musical instruments were brisk in the first half of the year.
Since 2011 China has become the world's largest musical instrument market thanks to its rapid economic growth and a rising demand for recreation, according to the China Musical Instrument Association.
From January to May, the output of the country's musical instruments' sector reached 15.5 billion yuan ($2.3 billion), up 7 percent year-on-year.
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