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Robert Schueller, the "Produce Guru" at Melissa's Produce, a specialty company out of Los Angeles, says chefs and restaurants are the clear drivers behind the cabbage movement. Cabbage is being used as everything from a taco topping (common in Mexico) to a base or nest for menu items such as marinated fish. Chefs like how cabbage maintains a crisper texture than other greens when served with warm foods, he says.
Responding to the public attention, an unnamed official from the commission told Jiangxi Daily on Friday that this is not a new practice. It has been in place for a long time as part of the province's efforts to regulate newborns' sex ratios, the official said.
Retailers saw significant growth in online sales, and more businesses like restaurants, grocery stores and fashion brands are attracting consumers by offering online options.
Revenue from cloud computing increased 99 percent year-on-year to 3 billion yuan. Revenue from digital media and entertainment increased 33 percent to 4.8 billion yuan, and revenue from innovation initiatives and others increased 27 percent to 887 million yuan.
Roughly 45 percent of e-commerce sales on Thanksgiving were mobile purchases, a 24 percent increase over a year ago. Approximately 63 percent of traffic on Thanksgiving came from smartphones.
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Right now, the US economy is booming. Famously, the unemployment rate is the lowest since 1969-maybe the lowest ever in peacetime. But we don't know whether this great economic situation is a permanent improvement, or just a bubble that will be followed by the inevitable bust.
Reuters also reported that Chinese investment firm Hillhouse Capital Group and Sequoia Capital China would likely be lead investors of JD Logistics' funding round. JD Logistics is currently 100 percent owned by JD.
Richard Pan, head of QFII investment at ChinaAMC, one of China's largest mutual fund companies, said as the domestic financial sector is continually opening up, foreign investment may increase to 10 percent of China's A-share and bond markets in the next decade.