From elaborate street lighting to snow globes the size of cars to a giant toy robot by jewelry brand Tiffany and Co, businesses around Shanghai have been ramping up their marketing efforts to lure customers ahead of Christmas.
Fourteen bills and more than 20 subsidiary regulations have been put on hold owing to the election deadlock, creating a semi-paralysis of the legislature.
From his point of view, the world's top two economies might disagree about certain trade practices, but "that's to be negotiated and it's a very important point in negotiation."
Fourth, land policy is due for further innovation. Although the current policy has attracted some criticism, the fact remains that it has been one of the most important supporting policies for regional economic development in the past few decades.
From the beginning of China's reform and opening-up in 1978 to the end of October this year, Shanghai has attracted more than 95,000 foreign-invested projects with the amount of capital utilized hitting 7.6 billion, according to statistics released last week by the Shanghai Municipal Commerce Commission.
Frequent inspections made enterprises confused about what to do and they got tired of coping with multiple checkups and some departments were also headstrong in inspections, which made space for "rent-seeking", the premier said at the meeting.
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From a bird's-eye view, rows of bauhinia blossoms line a roadway as cars drive past in Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Li Bin for chinadaily.com.cn]
Francis Aduol (left), the vice-chancellor of the Technical University of Kenya, and Liu Jun (right), the executive vice-president of AVIC International Holding Corporation, sign a manufacturing contract during the ATC Season Four Award Ceremony on March 27. Liu Hongjie / China Daily
From May 22 to June 15, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has sent eight teams to 21 provinces and regions to inspect whether production of inferior-quality steel bars had been seriously curtailed.
From 2004 to 2009, Sun Xiaoguo's parents visited officials at the justice bureau and the prison where he was serving his sentence, asking them to give "special care" to Sun Xiaoguo in return for bribes, it said. Sun Xiaoguo later received a falsified patent that helped him qualify for commutation and his sentence was illegally cut three times.