In 2013, Pudong became the birthplace of the Chinese mainland's first free trade zone. The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone has underpinned Pudong's high quality development, contributing to three-quarters of the area's GDP and 70 percent of its exports and imports.
In 1903, when Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi, the most powerful woman in China at the time, asked an American artist to paint a portrait for her and sent it to the US as a gift, she probably never dreamed that the work would go on to serve as a symbol of US-China cultural diplomacy for decades to come.
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In 2008, Qian, who had been developing his painting career in the US, returned to China to visit his hometown.
In 2010, China's third national development zone, the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, was established after the Shanghai Pudong and Tianjin Binhai new areas. Since then, it has explored new approaches for inland reform and opening-up.
In 2012, Canada stopped minting 1 cent (0.79 US cents) coins, which had been around since 1858.
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In 1990, China accounted for less than 3% of global manufacturing output. But 20 years later, it had surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest manufacturing nation.
In 2003, it entered the automobile industry with the acquisition of Xi'an Tsinchuan Auto Co Ltd and surprised the market with the world's first plug-in hybrid automobile in 2008. Since then, the Chinese e-vehicle brand has gained recognition in the global arena.
In 2015, reports of Chinese tourists swarming into stores in Japan during the Chinese New Year holidays and buying all of the electronic toilet seats in stock sparked heated discussion and even furor among Chinese netizens, when it was later discovered that they were made in China.
In 2006 when the parent company teamed up with China Southern Asset Management — one of the largest ?xed-income management enterprises on the mainland. When China Southern came to Hong Kong, it was one of the ?rst companies to be authorized under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institution- al Investor scheme, and they were very ambitious in building new products. OPFG and China Southern jointly set up CSOP Asset Management in 2008 which, currently, has approximately billion in assets under management.