The index marked a rise of 4.97 percent from a year ago, according to the association.
The increasing number of Chinese people studying and traveling overseas is also driving the growing enthusiasm for learning English, said experts.
The industry development center of the brand claimed that over 10 countries including the United States, Britain, Argentina, Australia and Canada, have shown interest in having the chain.
The impact on sales will wane in December, said Asako Hoshino, Nissan's head of Japan.
The inclusion of Chinese domestic debt in the index could potentially lead to about trillion of fund inflows into the Chinese onshore bond market, according to Ivan Chung, associate managing director of Moody's Investors Service, a global ratings company.
The index, which accesses 19 indicators of 53 leading regions in Asia-Pacific, reflects their capabilities to transform knowledge capital into economic value and resident wealth. It was compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has been released nine years in a row since 2010.
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The increasingly violent pro-democracy protests that started in June have undermined Hong Kong's economy, discouraging tourists from visiting and slashing retail sales. Visitors from the mainland, who comprise the biggest group of tourists in the city, has plunged by almost half, while retail revenue has dropped by about a quarter during the demonstrations.
The inauguration ceremony for the Luxembourg Tourism Visa Delivery Service (Zhengzhou) was held in Zhengzhou Monday afternoon. The service will allow applicants to obtain a Luxembourg tourist visa, with which travelers can also visit other Schengen countries.
The indicator, measuring activities of large-scale enterprises, went up by 6.6 percent in September from a year earlier, compared with a 6 percent increase in August, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.
The initiative is to be put to a referendum so Peruvians can have a direct say in the matter, he said.