Revenue jumped 20 percent year-on-year to 43.51 billion yuan during the same period.
Ross dismissed the move as nonsense, saying it was just bluff to talk about giving UK citizenship to Hong Kong people. He added that the British government could have given citizenship to all Hong Kong people a long time before 1997. "They didn't do so because they didn't want people from Hong Kong (going) to Britain."
Robots will serve at major pavilions, offering visitors information about the event, make coffee and do the cleaning.
Running a clothing distribution business with two partners, Zhao gets up at 7 am and sometimes spends over 11 hours working.
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Retail banking has become one of the major growth drivers for banks. Retail banking income represented 38 percent of the total income for large commercial banks in the first half of 2016, while the proportion grew to 39 percent in the first half of 2017. The growth of retail banking income is more obvious in joint-stock commercial banks, rising from 33 percent to 39 percent in the same period.
Retail investors check share prices at a securities brokerage in Fuyang, East China's Anhui province.[Photo by An Xin/for China Daily]
Rupert said: "The average wealth of China's Top 1,800 individuals reached .4 billion. The list is a snapshot of the private sector on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The stories of these people tell the story of the Chinese economy."