The average daily retail and catering sales were up by 9.5 percent year-on-year during that period, according to the ministry.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index climbed by 0.49 percent to 2889.76 points on Friday. The Shenzhen Component Index increased by 1 percent and the ChiNext startup index rose by 1.84 percent.
The awards are supported by UK's Department for International Trade, The British Council, the China-Britain Business Council, the Confederation of British Industryand the British Chambers in Beijing, Guangdong and southwest China.
The bank also forecast that growth in developing Asia, which excludes industrialized economies in the region, will slow to 5.4 percent this year from 5.9 percent in 2018, thanks to slowing global trade and weakening investment. It will reach 5.5 percent next year, according to the ADB.
The benchmark price for gold of 99.95 percent pure or above stood at 432 yuan (about .07) per gram, down 9.09 yuan from the previous trading day, and that for gold of 99.99 percent pure or above was 8.9 yuan lower at 433 yuan per gram.
The average price in Shanghai, however, did not budge much, staying around 72,000 yuan / sq m in the central area and 43,000 yuan/sq m in suburban areas.
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The baby panda with his mother Jia Jia. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The battle over online sales tax collection in California continues to heat up. Bloomberg News reports that Amazon.com has added another .25 million to a campaign to overturn a law which would require online retailers to collect sales tax on purchases made by residents in the state.
The battleground states of Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania-ground zero for many of US President Donald Trump's fruitless lawsuits-supported Biden and Harris.
The authorities have also taken a number of targeted measures to improve its liquidity management tools, Yi noted.