The ratio of product return requests of goods bought on Alibaba’s online shopping portal Taobao last year on suspicion of them being knockoffs dropped 29 percent year-on-year, the e-commerce giant said in a report published on Wednesday.
The recent launch of the Sephora Tmall Global Flagship Store, in a partnership with Alibaba Group's e-commerce site for imported goods, aims to "answer this craving appetite" for a growing portfolio of beauty products not yet familiar to Chinese customers, said Benjamin Vuchot, Asia president of Sephora.
The rapid onset of African swine fever in China and its detection in areas more than 1,000 kilometers apart could mean the deadly virus may spread to other Asian countries anytime, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned on Aug 28.
The provisional regulation on procedures for major administrative decision-making will take effect on Sept 1. It requires major administrative decisions to follow certain steps, including initiation, public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legitimacy review and collective discussion and decision-making.
The reach of the Chinese language is expanding with each passing year.Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said that nowadays, an increasing number of diplomats and UN staff are learning Chinese and familiarizing themselves with Chinese culture.
The real test was still to come. In November, rioters took over the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Police laid siege to the campus which had become a stronghold for radical students and rioters. Thousands of other protesters attempted to break through police lines.
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The protocol of the second phase of China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement also came into effect this year, and 15 member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership also have accomplished conclusion of negotiations as a whole.
The reading was up 8.7 percent compared with the same period last year, the ministry said.
The reform is part of the wider SOE reforms administered by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the country's top regulator of SOEs. It is designed to increase the competitiveness of SOEs as China works to replace old growth drivers with new ones, with emphasis on innovation, technology and efficiency.
The railway was designed to reach speeds of more than 200 kilometers per hour, the statement said.