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| | |  | | | General Electric Company Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt (2nd L) and Shanghai vice-mayor Jiang Sixian (2nd R) cut a ribbon during the opening of GE China Technology Center in Shanghai October 23, 2003. General Electric, one of the world's most profitable companies, expects to generate US$3 billion in sales from China this year and wants to invest in the country's vast financial services sector, Immelt said on Thursday. [Reuters] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Thoudsands of customers flood into the new Walmart Shopping Center in Ji'nan, capital of eastern China's Shandong province, on Wednesday, Sept 17, 2003. Walmart, the US-based retail flagship, launched its 30th outlet in China on Sept 17 to tap the huge market in the Chinese mainland. It will launch another outlet a week later in Qingdao, Shandong province. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Healthy development is being emphasized in real estate development. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Fruit and vegetables from Thailand will enjoy zero tariff from October 1, under a free trade agreement between mainland and Thailand. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An investment frenzy is expected in port construction, as the new law on ports lifts restrictions on foreign and private investment.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | China's Internet population hit 68 million by the end of June, the second highest number in the world, following the United States, according to a survey by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) released on July 21, 2003. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Autoshow in Beijing | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A bus passes the newly-opened Lupu Bridge in Shanghai July 22, 2003. The 2.2 billion yuan (US$266 million) Lupu Bridge project opened on June 28 and is the world's longest steel arch bridge with a span of 550 metres (0.35 miles), surpassing the 518-metre long New River Gorge Bridge bridge in the US state of West Virginia. More than 60,000 vehicles pass the bridge every day, already surpassing its designed flow of traffic. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Bund in Shanghai along the Huangpu River. | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Building materials for the construction of 200,000-ton deep-water berths at Tianjin Port are carted to a staging site on Wednesday. The berths, scheduled to be completed at the end of the year, will have a yearly handling capacity of 14 million tons.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Hello, Babe. A farmer shouldering two baskets of peaches talks with a car model on June 27, 2003 , at the Ningbo Press and Culture Plaza, where a four-day auto show has been held. Ningbo, a coastal city in east China's Zhejiang Province, has very much developed in economy, where quite a number of farmers in the city have become owners of luxury foreign-brand cars. [newsphoto.com.cn]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | An individual investor looks at the screen of stock prices in a stock exchange in Shanghai. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | The picture shows a body painting advertisment board in a department store in Shanghai, July 7, 2003. Body painting has become increasingly popular among young people this year. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A make-up promotion draws in customers Tuesday at Victoria Department Store in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Business in the region is gradually recovering, after 20 days with no new SARS cases reported. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A man looks at a bough bearing lychee fruits in Conghua, South China's Guangdong Province. A tourism festival started Wednesday in the city. The eight-day event, which is based on the city's reputation for succulent lychees, aims to boost the development of its tourism industry and to lure investment for its economic development. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A model stands against an exhibit at the third Shenyang International Automobile Industry Expo, which opened on July 3, 2003 in the capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province. More than 450 motor manufacturers are attending the six-day Shenyang expo at the Shenyang International Exhibition Centre. The expo is expected to attract more than 200,000 visitors.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Farm technician Wang Yuzhi, together with her colleague, records the yield of each plant at a vegetable garden in Shouguang in East China's Shandong Province. The city has been growing increasingly high-grade vegetables in recent years by introducing new varieties and adopting advanced technologies and strict management procedures. The small city currently has 2.66 hectares planted with green vegetables. It has an annual yield of 2 billion kilograms. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Japanese carmaker Nissan's new model Bluebirds are on show in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province, on Sunday. The luxury car, produced by Dongfeng Motor Co Ltd, a joint venture of Dongfeng Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co, has already attracted a great deal of interest from customers in Sanya. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Dongfeng Motor Co, a joint venture of Dongfeng Motor Corp and Japan's Nissan Motor Co, launches its first passenger car -- the Nissan "Sunny'' -- in Guangzhou Monday. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | |
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