Last year, Liang sold more than 50 metric tons of agricultural products through online orders. Due to the expansion of her online sales, she now has 400 local farmers supplying products to her-a quarter of whom used to live below the poverty line.
Last year, WeChat users helped drive 174.3 billion yuan (.3 billion) of information-sector spending and created jobs for 18.8 million people, according to a separate study by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released in early April.
Laoganma Special Flavor Foodstuffs Co in Guiyang's Nanming district produces a variety of popular sauces such as oil chili, beef soybean and flavored chili chicken.
Last month, BMW announced it would recall more than 86,000 imported X5 and X6 vehicles in China due to a problem with the drive shaft.
Last year, Shiseido saw its sales revenue in China reach 8.39 billion yuan, growing 22.2 percent year-on-year. During the same period, the net profit achieved 660 million yuan, surging 212.2 percent year-on-year, and Cle de Peau Beaute contributed a large portion to the growth, the company said.
Last week, 13 suspects went on trial in Yunnan. They stood accused of trafficking or purchasing 27 Vietnamese women and bringing them to China for forced marriages between July 2014 and April 2016. The verdicts are pending.
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Last month, FIIs gained increased access to the Chinese mainland's trillion bond market. The bond connect platform allows qualified overseas investors to trade bonds on the mainland interbank bond market, including treasury bonds, local government bonds, policy bank bonds and commercial bank bonds.
Last year, the State Administration for Market Regulation uncovered 774 cases of illegal advertising, fraud and counterfeiting in the healthcare products sector, with fines of 159 million yuan (.7 million) imposed on violators. The campaigns helped prevent and recover economic losses of 33.59 million yuan among consumers.
Last year, Mengniu signed a cooperation agreement with the Tibet autonomous region for joint efforts to build a modern pasture and a dairy factory. The partnership is expected to boost Mengniu's revenue.
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. [File photo/Chinanews.com]