Total spending for the 2016 presidential campaign, including the primaries, was .4 billion. This election will end up with more spending than the previous two presidential election cycles combined, the report said.
Traditional beverage business caters to younger generation's demand for sense of identity, new lifestyle
Transport of agricultural produce has also been upgraded. Exporting the walnuts by the China-Europe freight train can reduce delivery time and lower risks and costs.
Trade tensions between the largest two economies in the world last year caused uncertainty for both nations. Top Chinese and US leaders agreed in December to continue negotiations, to stop imposing new tariffs and to exchange visits at an appropriate time.
Total online sales stood at 264.1 billion yuan (.6 billion) in H1, up 22 percent year on year, according to a report by the China Center for Information Industry Development under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Tourists often experienced robberies, tour booking frauds, traffic accidents, and yachting mishaps, especially in some countries such as Thailand, which are notorious for such incidents, said Huize, China's largest third-party insurance platform.
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Trade income amounted to 1.57 trillion yuan while expenditure stood at 1.33 trillion yuan, according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
Traditionally a tea-drinking nation, China's appetite for coffee has been growing in recent years. In Shanghai, coffee chain Starbucks can be found every few hundred meters in downtown areas. Specialty coffee shops have also been sprouting around the city.
Trains to Xi'an handled 2.15 million passengers, 1.12 million traveling by high-speed trains. The Xi'an Railway Bureau also added 266 temporary trains to meet the high demand.
Together with other African counterparts, Kenya's medical team held a video conference with Chinese officials and doctors aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19 on Wednesday.