Short messages (SMS) sent by Chinese people in 2009 rose 8.4 percent year-on-year to 784.04 billion, or 2.1 billion per day on average, the Beijing Times reported recently citing a source with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology […]
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied […]
The pace of growth of China’s online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 percent to 27.1 billion yuan ($3.97 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch […]
Tomson Group has built a top luxurious housing block in Pudong, Shanghai. Tomson cooperated with Versace Home to built a luxurious show house of more than 900 square meters, with the name “Versace Home at Tomson Riviera” […]
China had 174 million cable TV subscribers at the end of 2009, up by 10 million, or 6.1%, from the end of 2008, according to China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television […]
China is going to expand schemes that give domestic consumers a discount if they trade in old cars and household appliances for new ones, said Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei […]
Stimulus policies spurring Chinese domestic consumption will be maintained in 2010, while high sales growth of home appliances and automobiles due to the stimulus packages will not affect consumption, analysts predict […]
Shanghai’s economy made further progress last month as a result of continued strong growth in local consumer spending and investment, while exports also improved to help strengthen a growing recovery […]
Luxury marketers are escaping the recession that has hit sales in developed markets by focusing on China […]
Online sales in China almost doubled in the first nine months of last year, official data showed recently, as China becomes more switched on and the younger generation of shoppers bare more confident in Internet shopping […]