The Chinese super-rich are shifting their investment focus to the domestic market as the opening-up of capital markets and other factors create fresh opportunities, the report said.
The Communist Party of China will set the tone for the country's socioeconomic development in the next five years and beyond at this week's key Party meeting, amid economic slowdown as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and growing tensions with the United States.
The DPRK test-fired an unidentified missile, which the country described as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) called Hwasong-14, at 11:41 pm (1441 GMT) Friday from Jagang province, the central northernmost part of the DPRK, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The EBRD urged reforms aimed at making economies more competitive, and highlighted Uzbekistan, where it has begun investing again after a seven-year pause.
The DPRK on Tuesday demolished an inter-Korean liaison office in the border city of Kaesong in retaliation for the South's failure to stop activists sending anti-DPRK leaflets into the North. Pyongyang has also cut off all communication lines with Seoul.
The DOJ sued?Apple and several large U.S. book publishers in April, alleging that they worked to raise e-book prices in an effort to curb Amazon.com’s growing power. HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette settled with the DOJ, but Apple, Penguin and Macmillan have vowed to fight the case.
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The Ethiopian Airlines Group is deploying more capacity to meet the demand arising from the robust trade, investment and tourism relations between China and Africa."The trade, investment and tourism relations are among the fastest in the world. We have positioned our service in the middle of this growth and we predict more than 20 percent growth between China and Africa every year in the coming years," said Tewolde GebreMariam, CEO of the group, adding most of the planes the airline has ordered will be deployed in China.The 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation "is giving us more energy and initiative to expand further because the Beijing Declaration is very important for us in the Belt and Road Initiative of the Chinese government," GebreMariam told reporters during the 24th World Route Development Forum, which opened in Guangzhou on Monday.Ethiopian Airlines is flying to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Chengdu."These flights are all full. We are looking for more capacity, more frequency," he said, adding the airline plans to add Chongqing, Zhengzhou and Shenzhen to its network.It will launch a cargo route between Norway’s Oslo and Guangzhou. "We are promoting Chinese exports not only to Africa but also South America and Europe," he said.Ethiopian Airlines launched its flights to Guangzhou 16 years ago. It is flying 10 passenger flights and five cargo flights per week, running a call center, a purchasing office and a cargo hub office in the city. "We have invested for a long period of time to develop Guangzhou as an important trade and investment link with African countries. The investment is paying back.""Guangdong government is actively promoting aviation in the province by making Guangzhou an important aviation hub not only for China, but also for Asia-Pacific," GebreMariam said.
The English edition of Dr. Zha's Diary on Fighting the COVID-19 made its global debut on Tuesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The Executive Council, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor's top policy advisory body, will hold a special meeting this afternoon to discuss the relevant measures, people familiar with the matter told China Daily.
The EU has long felt that it was caught between the growing tensions between China and the United States. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, a former Spanish foreign minister, has indicated that while the pressure to choose is increasing, the EU will make decisions based on its own interests and values.