In 2013, billionaire Ni Zhaoxing, owner of Shanghai-based Zhongrong Group, held talks with Bromley borough council, the local authority responsible for a park in Southeast London, to construct a 500-million-pound (1 million) replica of the Crystal Palace, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 and which was destroyed by fire in 1936.
In 2006, Yan and his friends founded AdMaster. "Being an entrepreneur can be lonely, especially in the beginning," he said. "It's not until the fifth year that we received our first round of venture capital funding from GSR Ventures (in 2010)."
In 2016, China's major frozen drink producers yielded more than 3.3 million metric tons of frozen drinks, ringing up nearly 44 billion yuan (.6 billion) in sales, a spokesperson with the frozen food committee of China Association of Bakery & Confectionery Industry said at Ice Cream China which opened Thursday.
Ikea, the Swedish furniture and home furnishing retailer, recently offered a financial plan to greatly shorten payment time for its suppliers and service providers in China in a bid to support local manufacturing capability and supply chains.
In 2013, the company released the design for its next model, the TF-X, which was the world's first flying car to take off and land vertically.
If your grandmother was anything like mine — at home in the kitchen with a recipe box full of hand-written cards — she’d just shake her head and sigh at the notion of a robot reciting step-by-step cooking instructions before returning to stirring cookie batter with a wooden spoon. Analog all the way.
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In 2012, four climbers from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and CUG (Wuhan) reached the top of Qomolangma, becoming the first amateur team from a Chinese university to do so.
In 2015, Sure Architecture was commissioned by a developer in Mumbai to help redevelop a slum area. The developer, Omkar Realtors, wanted to build luxury homes but was also obliged to provide accommodations for the area's original residents. Omkar decided to build an area of affordable housing that would have been separated from the luxury homes with fences.
In 1999, then 23-year-old An started his first record store of around 500 square meters, in Beijing's bustling Dongdan district. "It was the hottest time for the record market," An explained.
In 1978, after the collective farming policy had been in force nationwide for about 20 years, 18 farmers in Xiaogang village secretly signed an agreement to subdivide their farmland into family plots, in the hope of increasing crop yields by using the new motivation to work harder.