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Publishers and authors in Beijing are making big efforts to write the pages of Chinese history through an increased push to translate Chinese literature.
Maison Mode is now little more than a memory among the high-end department stores in Beijing, after a period of business in which it failed to nail the market. METRO decided to find out what went wrong.
The busy season has begun for the legions of gift card scalpers who make a living from buying unwanted cards and reselling them.
Think of Starbucks and the chances are you will be thinking of coffee. That's probably because it's the largest coffeehouse chain in the world, with more than 16,000 outlets in 49 countries and regions, more than 360 of them on the Chinese mainland.
A 36-year-old foodstuff salesman became the first person in China to try out a brand new way of shopping, signing up for newly launched consumer financing in the capital Monday.
Retail stores and online businesses are pulling in huge profits through purchases of gifts of tobacco and alcohol - passed between families and friends over the recent Spring Festival - at low prices and reselling them on as new.
Retailers of delicately embroidered traditional Chinese garments such as tangzhuang jackets and qipao dresses celebrated booming sales during the Spring Festival.
Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines failure to acquire the iconic sports utility vehicle brand Hummer from General Motors (GM) does not come as a surprise and was to be expected, said leading industry analysts.
A courtyard house next to Beihai Park that was once part of a Qing dynasty palace is being advertised online for 420 million yuan and attracting the interest of State-owned enterprises.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | 2,794.27 | -0.58% | Thur |
| Shenzhen | 12,392.93 | -0.26% | Thur |
| HSI | 22,530.18 | +0.06% | Thur |
| NIKKEI | 10,071.14 | -0.11% | Thur |
| Dow | 12,719.49 | +0.74% | Thur |
| Nasdaq | 2,872.66 | +1.36% | Thur |