Though there has been an improvement in overall profitability this year, Chinese enterprises, especially small-and micro-sized ones, were in greater need of loans during the October-December period, indicated by an index of 62.2 percent, up from 61.4 percent in the third quarter, according to a survey by the PBOC. It also indicated their expectations of faster business expansion next year. Meanwhile, demand for loans from the non-manufacturing sector rose to 60.2 percent during the same period, up 0.4 percentage points from the previous quarter.
Three, bank lending will have a bearing on liquidity. "As more pressure on economic growth is expected this year, more banks will provide lending in the early part of the year, to make profits sooner than later. This will result in a noticeable increase in required reserves," said Qu.
Tianjin companies announce purchases of agricultural and animal products from 10 poverty-stricken provinces and cities. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Though it hasn’t become mainstream, palm-scanning is?not exactly a new technology.?Consumer advocates were warning?about how the use of biometric data like hand-scanning could put people in danger of identity theft years ago. And it has been used in a variety of areas, from?school lunch rooms?to doctors offices.
Tickets for flights from Lhasa to Ngari and additional flights from Lhasa to the cities of Nyingchi and Chamdo will be 30 percent off the market price.
Tianneng Group, one of China's largest battery manufacturers, chartered five buses on Feb 12 to help a total of 145 employees who spent the Spring Festival holiday in Yunnan province return to work.
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Three Hong Kong universities — the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University — as well as the Chinese mainland's Peking University and Tsinghua University, are among the 140 institutions that have joined the program.
Though business has been brisk, Lyu admits that selling specialty coffee is still "not very profitable". The main reasons behind this are the high rental rates in Shanghai and the growing competition.
Three bystanders who were inside the store when the shootout began were killed. They have been identified as Mindel Ferencz, 33, who ran the grocery store with her husband; Moshe Deutch, 24, a rabbinical student who lives in Brooklyn; and Miguel Douglas, 49, who was believed to have worked at the store.
Tian Xi, a volunteer from Beijing who delivers masks and protective gear to various hospitals, wrote a will to his family in which he leaves them money to pay his debts if he cannot go back.