Last October, Amazon.com rival eBay purchased London-based online delivery company Shutl, creating a method for customers of some retailers to get items delivered in less than an hour.
Last week, the International Monetary Fund revised up China's 2019 growth projection by 0.1 percentage point to 6.3 percent, citing factors including the recent developments in the China-US trade talks and China's stronger-than-expected expansionary fiscal policy.
Last year, imports and exports in Guangdong exceeded 6.8 trillion yuan, up 8 percent year-on-year, with a trade surplus of 1.62 trillion yuan, according to statistics issued on Friday by the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs.
Last week, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China learnt that since the last congress in 2012, as many as 34 central State-owned enterprises, or SOEs, have been restructured, with their overall number falling to 98 from 117.
Last year, about 21 percent of Inner Mongolia's electricity was generated using new energies. About 90 percent of the autonomous region's new job vacancies were created by small and medium-sized enterprises last year.
Last year, Chinese consumers spent 770 billion yuan on luxury items, with each luxury-consuming household spending an average of 80,000 yuan per year, the report said, based on transaction data of UnionPay.
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Last year, JD successfully used drones to deliver online purchases to rural shoppers in Jiangsu province, kicking off the e-commerce giant's use of unmanned aircraft for last-mile distribution.
Last year, Alibaba and Tencent respectively invested 4.35 billion yuan (1 million) and 11 billion yuan into China Unicom, as part of the latter's mixed ownership reform.
Last month, China and Norway concluded the 12th round of FTA negotiations in Beijing. China is currently discussing signing or upgrading FTAs with 27 countries.
Last year witnessed a turning point for the major consumers of meal replacement products in China, according to the report. While people born in the early 1990s made up the majority of meal replacement consumers, the even younger generation born after 1995 contributed for most of the sales growth in 2018.