This year, China hosts the China-German prime ministers' regular meeting, but Merkel comes at a special time in a changing international scenario, said Chen Fengying, a senior world economy researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
This year's event, in October, is expected to attract some 120 exhibitors with an estimated 28,000 visitors at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the China-Japan-ROK trilateral meeting outside the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Those were the words of Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the US, who spoke at the China General Chamber of Commerce - USA (CGCC) Chinese Lunar New Year of the Dog Gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York on Wednesday night.
Though Heytea accounts only for a fraction of Starbucks' multibillion-dollar business in China, its phenomenal success within six years of inception has stirred up a storm in both retail and investor world.
This year, she was assigned the task of welding the drawbars of locomotives with top speeds of 200 km/h.
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This was in contrast to the .29 billion net investment outflows logged in the first quarter of the year.
This year, the US, China, Germany, Russia and Turkey are expected to be the top five markets for nut and seed products. In the US, the total sales of the category are predicted to hit .74 billion this year.
This year, "Singles' Day" shopping event was expected to feature 250,000 brands participating to attract 800 million customers, said TRBusiness, a monthly magazine for the duty free and travel retail industry.
This year, various financial institutions in the banking sector will also try to increase their loans to individually owned businesses by more than 500 billion yuan altogether from the previous year, she said.