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China’s mid-year online shopping spree reaps $2.4 tln: Clearing house

China online shopping spree
China online shopping spree

CGTN | 21-Jun-2020

Total transactions during the just-concluded mid-year online shopping spree reached 16.91 trillion yuan (about 2.38 trillion U.S. dollars), up 42 percent from last year, according to Chinese online payment clearing house NetsUnion Clearing Corporation (NUCC). Continue reading “China’s mid-year online shopping spree reaps $2.4 tln: Clearing house”

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Father’s Day: What has Xi Jinping learned from his father?

File photo of Xi Jinping (R, rear) with his father Xi Zhongxun (R, front), his wife Peng Liyuan (L, front) and his daughter (C, front) - Xinhua
File photo of Xi Jinping (R, rear) with his father Xi Zhongxun (R, front), his wife Peng Liyuan (L, front) and his daughter (C, front) – Xinhua

CGTN | 21-Jun-2020

“There are many noble characters I wish to inherit from my father,” Xi Jinping, then governor of southeast China’s Fujian Province, said in a letter of felicitation to his father Xi Zhongxun on his birthday in 2001. Continue reading “Father’s Day: What has Xi Jinping learned from his father?”