The home-delivery catering industry has grown immensely over the past couple of years, and the tablecloth for eat-at-home dining has stretched to the traditional Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
For hundreds of millions of mothers all around China, Chinese New Year's Eve is a day that will bring them hours of toil in a hot kitchen beforehand that will produce satisfied stomachs and happy faces.
Spanish wine is set to come in second behind French wine in terms of foreign wine consumed in China last year.
Streamlined distribution is putting good drops from Down Under within reach of Chinese buyers.
Stung by the government's austerity drive, the wine industry has been forced to re-evaluate how it does business.
According to the software company Tencent Holdings Ltd, which owns the instant messaging app QQ, about 53.3 million of its users left the four mega metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen for the Spring Festival last February.
Leaving aside the problem of foul air that has become an unwelcome trademark for Beijing, cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, magnets for the young and the ambitious, face the problems of a high cost of living, forbidding house prices and fierce competition for jobs.
There are herds of camels, sheep and wolves, human figures apparently on skis, and, the biggest surprise of all, a flying object that resembles an aircraft or a rocket. These are the ancient pictographs of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which is endowed with one of the richest collections of ancient rock art in China.
No, sexually explicit pictures did not begin with Marilyn Monroe in Playboy magazine in Chicago in 1953.
As the catering industry laps up what appears to be the entree in an upswing in business for which it has had a growing appetite for many months, one sign that this is no flash in the pan is surging sales of liquors.
Three years after the Chinese government declared war on the misuse of public funds on meals, the catering industry seems be coming back to the business.
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