In the first quarter of 2017, Ford's net profit stood at .6 billion, a 35 percent fall from .5 billion a year earlier, and sales slipped 5.1 percent in the first four months of the year.
In the first 10 months, profits of major industrial enterprises decreased by 2.9 percent year-on-year, wider than the 2.1-percent fall recorded in the first nine months, according to NBS data.
In the US, President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses on Saturday at the start of the Memorial Day weekend as he urged US states to reopen after coronavirus-related lockdowns.
In the first half of this year, the freight volume reached 19.87 billion tons, falling 7.8 percent from same period of last year. However, the numbers of China-Europe freight trains dispatched and delivery business bucked up, with the growth exceeding 25 percent and 20 percent.
In the coming two years, China will provide 2 billion dollars in international aid. This will go to the countries that are battling the virus and at the same time trying to restore socio-economic order, especially in developing countries.
In the Middle East, Israel's parliament suspended sessions scheduled for Thursday and asked nonessential staff to stay home after a lawmaker, Sami Abou Shahadeh, tested positive for the virus.
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In the first half of this year, trade volume between China and ASEAN surged by 4.2 percent year-on-year to 2 billion.
In the first quarter of 2019, Quanjude posted sales revenue of 400 million yuan ( million), down 9.57 percent year-on-year. Its net profit during the period reached 10.6 million yuan, plunging 81.32 percent year-on-year, its latest earnings report said.
In the first 11 months, lottery sales went up 8.1 percent to 386.99 billion yuan, with sales of welfare lottery tickets and sports lottery tickets increasing 5.3 percent and 11.1 percent, respectively.
In the first half of this year, China's economy continued its steady expansion with its gross domestic product (GDP) up 6.9 percent year-on-year, well above economists' estimates, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed in July.