In the January-June period, consumer product manufactures saw their profits increase 7.4 percent year on year. Producers from the hi-tech manufacturing reported a 2.3-percent growth, while profits of those from the strategic emerging industry climbed 0.4 percent.
In the US, a report in Rolling Stone magazine in May on a performance in Arkansas by the blues-rock band Bishop Gunn appeared under the headline "US' first pandemic concert".
In the first 11 months, railway freight totaled 3.68 billion tons, up 8.7 percent year-on-year.
In the first eight months, local governments issued 2.90 trillion yuan (7 billion) in new bonds, accounting for 94 percent of the annual quota of this year, data from the Ministry of Finance showed.
In the Lesser Hinggan Mountains, innumerable white birch trees, intermingled with Korean pine and sawtooth oak, create a scene that reminds Xu Jing, 64, of a great green ocean.
In the beginning, most of his customers were family members and friends, but now he is helping more than 10,000 people from African countries — Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo — to buy Chinese goods.
南京先做双眼皮还是隆鼻
In the first month after the Dalian FTZ area launched, it attracted 1,900 companies with combined registered capital of more than 5 billion yuan (0.9 million). The companies cover such fields as finance, trade, logistics, leasing and information technology.
In the first eight months of the year, new energy car sales totaled about 320,000 vehicles, jumping 30.2 percent year-on-year. This contributed 1.8 percent to the entire auto market, which expanded by 4.3 percent year-on-year to 17.51 million vehicles sold.
In the first half of this year, premium income of life insurance firms rises by 6 percent year on year to 2 trillion yuan. [Photo/Sipa]
In the face of such profound changes, Migu is working hard to leverage its edge in 5G technologies to promote the upgrade of the ultra-high-definition video industry, Liu said at the 8th China Internet Audio & Video Conference.