Seattle Bookstore Day is taking place all day Saturday at 19 bookstores around the city. The stores will host parties, give away merchandise, and offer discounts. Guests can pick up a “passport” at any of the participating stores and those who get stamps from each location will receive 25 percent off at all stores for a year.
Seattle is also benefiting from an influx of companies from the Bay Area, which are expanding here at a rapid pace. See our post earlier today:?From Facebook to Zynga: A guide to the tech giants establishing Seattle outposts.
Service trade refers to the sale and delivery of intangible products such as transportation, tourism, telecommunications, construction, advertising, computing and accounting.
Service sector sentiment also cooled in October, with its index down 2.23 points compared with September as security traders faced shrinking trading volume, and insurance firms raked in less revenue.
Service outsourcing with Hong Kong and the European Union grew steadily, while that with Russia surged in H1 with the fulfilled contract value growing 56.9 percent over a year ago, the MOC data showed.
Serving as a sub-unit commander, straight out of police college, Chiang said she has felt huge pressure over the past six months. She was responsible for keeping her colleagues safe while keeping up their morale. She found that pretty challenging.
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Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo, director of the forum's secretariat office, said the scope and scale of the event has greatly expanded in recent years due to its tighter focus on current international situations and its inclusive environment for dialogue.
Second, our two countries will promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, especially so when economic globalization is encountering the headwinds of rising protectionism and unilateralism. Both China and Indonesia believe in globalization and free trade. We both support the rules-based multilateral trading regime and stand for equal consultation in settling trade disputes. China does not go after trade surpluses. Last year saw Indonesia's deficit with China decrease by 42 percent over the previous year, and bilateral trade achieved overall balance in the first quarter of this year.
Separately, urban and rural per capita disposable income reached 42,359 yuan and 16,021 yuan last year, up 5 percent and 6.2 percent in real terms, the NBS said. Moreover, per capita consumer spending increased by 5.5 percent on a yearly basis in real terms to 21,559 yuan last year.
Services are growing rapidly. The value-added of the tertiary sector, which is mainly services, grew from 56.7 to 57.3 percent of GDP from the same period last year. The Index of Services Production increased 7.4 percent year-on-year, higher than the growth rate of overall GDP.