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Industrial profits surge 92.3% Share CLOSE A technician oversees the manufacture of forklifts at a company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo by TAN YUNFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY] Production and sales increase as solid recovery continues to gather strength Profits at Chinas industrial firms surged in March on a yearly basis as both production and sales grew rapidly and the economic recovery continued to gain strength, experts said. Industrial profits rose to 711.18 billion yua...

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Official: Demand for workers high By LI LEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:22 Share CLOSE A job seeker browses employment information at a job fair in Shenzhen in November 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] Restaurants, hotels and automakers struggled to find enough workers to serve dishes, clean guest rooms and man assembly lines in the first quarter of this year as Chinas consumer spending and factory production continue to recover from COV...

IaaS success puts Chinese companies on cloud nine By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:20 Share CLOSE The booth of Alibaba Cloud at an exhibition in Hangzhou, on Nov 12, 2020. [Photo by Long Wei for China Daily] Chinese cloud computing service providers posted high growth last year, according to an industry report from Gartner, a market research provider. Alibaba Group Holding ranked as the worlds third-largest infrastruct...

Action plan to expedite digitalization of State firms By ZHU WENQIAN and HU MEIDONG in Fuzhou | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:02 Share CLOSE A pupil watches a robotic arm in action during the fourth Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, Fujian province. [Photo by CHEN BIN/FOR CHINA DAILY] China will launch a special action plan to speed up the digitalization process of State-owned enterprises, with more breakthroughs in core technologi...

Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:29 Share CLOSE FILE PHOTO: A Johnson & Johnson building is shown in Irvine, California, US, January 24, 2017. [Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON -- US states have resumed administering the one-shot Johnson & Johnsons COVID-19 vaccine after federal agencies lifted a pause, but public trust in the vaccine has been hindered. The US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announc...

One in seven pregnancies worldwide ends in miscarriage, and 11 percent of women endure a failed pregnancy at least once in their lifetime, experts said Tuesday.

Macro policies can mend structural imbalances By ZHU MIN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 09:33 Share [CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY] Economic rebalancing, structural recovery, development and transitions, rather than pursuit of a large size of economic aggregate, are the main goals of Chinas macroeconomic policies this year. We should attach importance to both GDP growth and economic structural adjustment, which is a major direction of our countrys ...

SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Apr 26, 2021 03:19 PM Cotton farmer Dilshat Memet (1st R) and employees have a discussion on film mulching sower efficiency in a cotton field in Tungqeka Village of Xingping Township, Yuli County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 13, 2021. Photo:Xinhua The regional GDP of Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region grew 12.1 percent year-on-year to about 340.25 billion yuan (...

Homestays with B&B make trips a breeze By Zhu Wenqian | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 08:59 Share CLOSE Visitors pass by a rural homestay in Shaoyang, Hunan province, in July. [Photo by TENG ZHIZHONG/FOR CHINA DAILY] Over a weekend earlier this month, I made a trip to the ancient city of Pingyao in North Chinas Shanxi province. I stayed at a minsu, which roughly translates as "Chinese-style bed-and-breakfast homestay", part of an e...