Home transactions in 2018 reached an all-time high, with 1.7 billion square meters and 15 trillion yuan worth of homes traded, a growth of 1.3 percent and 12.2 percent respectively compared to a year earlier, according to NBS.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor cast her vote shortly before 9 am.
Hong Kong should diversify its appeal to visitors rather than relying too heavily on its reputation as a "shopping paradise", a business executive in the tourism and hotel sector told China Daily on Wednesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday made a strong plea to those protesters still holed up in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to leave the campus so that their standoff with the police could end in a peaceful manner.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor holds a press conference at Central Government Offices on 18 Aug, 2020. [CALVIN NG/ CHINA DAILY]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor expressed gratitude to the Central Government for placing importance on the views of the HKSAR government in formulating the plan. She made the remark in a statement released after the outline was announced.
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Hong Kong government statistics show that by the end of last year, mainland banks' assets in Hong Kong accounted for approximately 33 percent of the local banking system, compared with 13 percent in 1997. Currently, almost all State-owned and national joint-equity commercial banks have branches in Hong Kong.
His shift at the community entrance was from 8 pm to 10 pm, two to four times a week. Chen remembers on one cold night an elderly volunteer joined him. "I was touched that the septuagenarian was doing volunteer work together with me," he recalls.
Home to 225 families and 939 villagers, Shibadong's per capita net annual income increased more than eight times, from 1,668 yuan (238 U.S. dollars) in 2013 to 14,668 yuan in 2019, Shi said.
His comments came after the central bank's foreign exchange trade system confirmed on Friday that banks that can suggest the yuan's daily exchange rate against the US dollar have eliminated the effects of the "countercyclical factor"-one of the existing three elements to determine the currency's exchange rate.