The month-on-month drop was due to the ebb of holiday factors, which pushed up demand in February, said Sheng Guoqing, a senior statistician of the NBS, in a statement.
The mission is part of an overseas humanitarian aid program carried out by the Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) along the Belt and Road.
The municipal government of Jiangmen said they received a distress call in the early hours of Saturday morning from a fishing boat off the coast of Taishan. The ship reported that it was taking on water and tilting to one side, with contact lost soon afterward.
The move makes eBay the latest e-commerce heavyweight to invest heavily in shipping. However, the new Managed Delivery program will be a little different from Amazon or Walmart’s fulfillment services because it will rely on third-party logistics partners to handle the shipping duties.
The move came as China is scrambling to commercialize 5G, a technology that is expected to be at least 10 times faster than 4G and will support superfast movie downloads, the streaming of virtual reality games, and self-driving cars. The country's telecom carriers China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are all conducting 5G tests in a string of cities, enabling large-scale pre-commercial use this year.
The move was triggered by a 2018 murder case in which a 20-year-old pregnant Hong Kong woman was allegedly murdered by her 19-year-old boyfriend during a holiday in Taiwan.
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The most eye-catching element of Amazon’s new Seattle campus — a three-sphere biodome — has received design approval from the city’s Department of Planning and Development, clearing the way for Amazon to proceed with the project.
The monsoon climate indeed brought many difficulties. Last November, a cyclone hit Colombo and damaged parts of the Port City's breakwater which was under construction.
The monthly composite index for Taiwan's manufacturing sector continued to fall for a fifth consecutive month in March, flashing a "blue light" that signals a recession.
The nation's investment rate, or fixed capital formation over GDP, declined starting from 2015, after it was sustained at elevated levels of around 45 percent from 2009 to 2013, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.