Roz Saddik (front), a Uygur herdsman, patrols Wushi's border with Kyrgyzstan with colleagues. Provided to China Daily
Rural Taobao is an ambitious effort by Alibaba to turn China's hundreds of millions of rural residents into online shoppers and sellers. It also underscores the potential of e-commerce to fuel economic activity and eliminate poverty in the country's poorer, largely agrarian regions.
Route 375 through the Nevada desert is known as the "Extraterrestrial Highway" and says so on the road signs. Officials have taken the signs down because if the Little Green Men from a faraway galaxy don't steal them, the souvenir hunters might.
Royce believed that "the Chinese government is engaged in a long-term process of catching up to Europe, the United States, and Russia in commercial aircraft. This is one step in that direction."
Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman of Hurun Report Inc, said at the ongoing World Internet Conference on Sunday that China's development of advanced technologies has made it the most popular destination of choice for unicorn companies.
Robots have already eliminated millions of manufacturing jobs and are now gaining in services, helped by advances in computer vision, speech recognition and machine learning, the study noted.
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Ruan Shili, general manager of the Chateau Changyu Moser XV Co Ltd in Ningxia, said the company, which was established in 2010, receives more than 100,000 visitors a year. Changyu Group also has six wineries in China, and two more are coming up. Its wines are exported to six countries in Europe and the United States.
Retail sales of grain, oil and food reached 745.35 billion yuan (about 7.85 billion), up 12.9 percent from a year ago. Sales of alcohol and tobacco stood at 172.61 billion yuan during the period, down 3.1 percent year on year.
Revenue from the company’s China commerce wholesale business was 9 million, up 39 percent; and revenue from its international commerce wholesale business was 5 million, up 24 percent.
Row upon row of booths featured Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean and Filipino snacks, with a few Mexican and American eateries as well.