Thornton said that government institutions, which have not been polling well around the world recently, have a chance to show their mettle in this crisis. If they fail, they will confirm that people's eroding faith in their ability to perform is justified.
Thomas Piachaud, director of consulting at global market research company Kantar, said the huge tobacco market highlights the "heavily ingrained nature" of smoking in China, and gives e-cigarettes a large pool of potential customers.
Thomas, of AIM, said dredging, reclaiming land and raising the level of islands can technically be done, although it might be "prohibitively expensive unless massive external financing at no interest is provided".
Thomas Fang, head of China equities at UBS AG, said many overseas institutional investors are showing more enthusiasm than domestic players in the A-share market. He said they are optimistic about China's fundamentals and the attractive price-earning ratios of A shares.
Though Klimt is not a well known name among Chinese audiences now, Natter said he was sure "it will develop very much" as the paintings are about colors and ornament and Chinese audiences will find something familiar, though different.
This year Amazon invited music superstar Katy Perry to headline the show, as previously reported by GeekWire. Also performing were Lil Nas X, the rapper behind the 2019 viral hit Old Town Road, along with up-and-comer CYN.
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Though Amazon has come a long way since its early days as an online bookseller, it remains best known for its original service – e-commerce. In China, however, the battle for e-commerce supremacy appears to be over – Alibaba has?emerged king?while Amazon, with less than a one percent market share,?“missed the bus.”?Thus, if Amazon is to achieve success in the Chinese market, it will have to do so not on the back of the core services on which it was founded, but rather through its more recent innovations, like digital content distribution.
This year's expo will increase the floor space for exhibitors to 300,000 square meters, creating platforms for companies to launch their new products, technologies and services.
This will have an influence on bilateral economic cooperation such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the construction of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, and tourism and cultural exchanges, he added.
This year's expo is one of the few and most important professional fairs to successfully take place despite the pandemic, and Claudia Vernotti, director of ChinaEU, a business-led association in Brussels, said she was encouraged by the promising future China has pictured.