In 2018, Ikea China launched its website and delivery services and also smaller-sized stores at places. The online and offline coverage is expected to help expand Ikea's consumer reach to about 1 billion people, said Francois Brenti, director of expansion at Ikea China last year. Thanks to the digital and physical coverage, he said the company expanded to 227 cities and regions, from first-tier to third-tier and even lower-tier cities.
In 2017, a total of 106 Chinese became billionaires, taking the number in the country to 373, about one-fifth of the global total. The growth was phenomenal considering that there were only 16 Chinese billionaires in 2006.
In 2017, trade volume between China and Austria rose by 15.5 percent to .39 billion, statistics from the Ministry of Commerce showed. China's exports to Austria totaled .53 billion, up 12.7 percent year-on-year. Imported goods stood at .86 billion, up 16.7 percent year-on-year.
In 2017, the province attracted over 5.49 million outbound tourists and the number is expected to reach 5.82 million in 2018.
In 2017, China became a full member of the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use, an organization that standardizes global drug regulations.
In 2018, a technical team from the department went to the eastern Nepali district of Solukhumbu to do precise leveling work, according to a report by Xinhua News Agency.
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In April, the government of Fuzhou donated statues of Tang and Shakespeare to Stratford-upon-Avon, which showed the pair standing shoulder to shoulder.
In 2017, the airline reported a loss of HK.26 billion (0.6 million), compared with a loss of HK5 million in 2016. Last year, it set up a three-year company transformation plan, and since the second half of that year, the plan has started to work.
In August, 55 percent of flights were on time, while in July the rate was only 50 percent, figures from the administration showed.
In April 2015, Xi attended the awards ceremony of national model workers in Beijing and delivered a speech. All of society should be proud of working hard and be ashamed of idleness, he said.