Stanley Gibbons, the world's oldest stamp dealer, is in talks with Chinese investors about the potential sale of the British company, an official said on Monday.
The United States is expected to overtake the European Union as China's largest trade partner this year, a former vice-minister of commerce said.
International Finance Corp, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, plans to increase its investment in China's agriculture, pollution control and urbanization projects over the next three years, according to one of its regional heads.
BEIJING - Doomsayers about China's economy have been wrong in the past, and they are wrong again today, said prominent US economist and author Stephen Roach - who added that the country reported first half GDP growth of 6.9, exceeding the 6.7 percent rise in 2016, as well as beating the consensus of forecasters.
"Alipay or WeChat Pay?" she asked as soon as he finished his lunch.
On July 15, EMVCo, an association facilitating standards in worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions, released QR code specification for payment systems, providing one of the first globally interoperable technical solution for QR code payment.
WeChat Pay, the mobile payment tool developed by internet major Tencent Holdings Ltd, is accelerating overseas expansion as it narrows the gap with first-mover Alipay in China's red-hot digital payment arena.
Chinese travelers are spending 28 percent of their income on average on international travel, with the millennials (those born in the 1990s) being the biggest spenders, allocating 35 percent of their income to travel, according to an industry survey.
The competition in China's multibillion-dollar mobile payment market has intensified with Apple Inc stepping up efforts to challenge the dominance of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Petrochemicals and their applications have pride of place in this energy-hungry world - and anyone who can help produce clean, cost-efficient energy will enjoy added significance, more so in large, populous countries such as China.
BEIJING - Every evening, workers gather in the Shenzhen Industrial Park in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, waiting for buses to take them home. Companies based in the park, including electronic components makers and clothing manufacturers, have hired more than 3,000 workers from nearby villages and towns, making the industrial park one of the most bustling areas in the region.
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