In December, Starbucks opened a Roastery location in Shanghai, an economic and financial hub in East China, its second after the one in Seattle in Washington state on the US west Pacific.
In December, TCL and domestic tech giant Xiaomi Corp signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop smart products and electronic devices, and to apply new devices and technologies in next-generation intelligent hardware. The partners said they plan to work together in the core, high-end and fundamental technology fields.
In Doing Business 2006, for example, businesses in Shanghai spent 832 hours per year on average to prepare, file and pay taxes, and they had to make 37 payments. The latest edition of Doing Business showed that these metrics have been reduced to just 138 hours per year and seven payments.
In June 2018, while the trade pact was being renegotiated, Trump slapped punitive tariffs on Canadian aluminum, stunning the US's historic ally.
In June alone, a total of 1.54 trillion yuan of yuan-denominated loans were issued by Chinese banks, an increase of 153 billion yuan from June last year.
In July, Boeing launched Boeing Global Services as its third major business after Commercial Airplanes and Defense, Space and Security.
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In Berlin, Li is scheduled to attend an annual meeting between the Chinese premier and the German chancellor, a mechanism that has been in place since 2004. In Brussels, the Chinese premier will attend the 19th China-EU leaders' meeting.
In June, the vegetation in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau starts to gradually turn green. Residents in Yushu city of Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Northwest China’s Qinghai province, seize the precious summer months to enjoy the nature at a wetland park, a part of the reconstruction efforts after the magnitude-7.1 Yushu earthquake in 2010.
In India, the company unveiled BeautyPlus ME, a lighter version of Beauty-Plus, as many Indian users tend to use apps with smaller file-size due to bandwidth issues and slow internet connectivity.
In February, Chinese carmakers delivered 310,000 vehicles, down almost 80 percent year-on-year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. During the first two months of this year, vehicle sales totaled 2.24 million units in China, down 42 percent year-on-year.