Massive changes are on the way in payment and customer loyalty programs. Alipay, the digital wallet under Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial, will be accepted at 4,700 Bailian stores in 200 Chinese cities and regions. Bailian's indigenous prepaid cards can be integrated into Alipay as a payment option.
Market volume is expected to exceed 4.6 trillion yuan (about 9.8 billion) this year, surging over 800 times than 1978, said the association's head Jiang Junxian.
Martinovic is not the only one showing international friendship in China's battle against the epidemic. The city of Satsumasendai in Japan, a "sister city" of Jiangsu's Changshu, has urgently delivered 30,000 masks. According to the city government of Suzhou, more than 20 international friendly exchange cities have donated medical materials or expressed their concern and condolences through emails.
Many say a top challenge facing Hong Kong is the lack of property supply. Hong Kong's low taxation, efficient governance, safe and clean environment and beautiful nature are appealing to talents and investors, but many have been held back by the high costs for housing and private education, said Liu.
Many of the weekend's protests culminated in police officers shooting tear gas and using pepper spray and protesters setting fire to cars and buildings. Smoke, tear gas and pepper spray cause coughing, and coughing aerosolizes the virus, increasing the risk that it will spread, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Mao said Hainan's legal enforcement teams investigated 1,172 cases of environmental violation in 2018, resulting in penalties totaling 184 million yuan (.7 million), an increase of 76 percent year-on-year. A total of 275 enterprises were investigated and 54 people were detained.
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Mattel will increase its investment in the Chinese market in the future given the opportunities provided by the two-child policy and the ongoing consumption upgrading, he added.
Master craftsman Ricky Cheung Sing-chung in the studio. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Mariah Walton of the RichRelevance analytics team spearheaded the experiment. Walton has studied climate change, and she was curious about how the environment affects our shopping habits.
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