More festive greetings delivered via courier By HE QI in Shanghai | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-18 07:08 Share CLOSE A courier for online delivery company Eleme picks up couplets for a client at a Shanghai supermarket before Spring Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] A cup for grandma, a cup for grandfather, a cup for elder sister and a cup for younger brother. A Happy New Year for everyone!
So reads a note sent along with four cups of milk tea ordered by Liu, who works in Chengdu, Sichuan province, and delivered to his family in Tianjin, Liu s hometown, on Friday, Lunar New Year.
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Spring Festival takeout trade poised to take off By LI YINGXUE | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-29 07:52 Share CLOSE Restaurant employees prepare takeaway Lunar New Year s Eve dinner dishes at Deyuelou Restaurant in Suzhou, East China s Jiangsu province. [Photo by Wang Jianzhong/For China Daily]
Pandemic expected to spark rush of online orders
On Jan 13, the first day of the 12th lunar month, the number of searches for Lunar New Year s Eve dinner on the online food ordering platform Eleme quadrupled compared with the same day last year.
Fang Jie, who is responsible for the platform s Lunar New Year s Eve dinner project, said the number of searches usually rises only after the Laba Festival, also known as the Rice Porridge Festival, which falls on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month.
Not even the pandemic could force Chinese, local crews to down tools Workers at the construction site of the Hunutlu thermal power plant, in Adana, Turkey. The thermal plant is China s largest direct investment project in Turkey. [Photo/Xinhua]
CAIRO－With the COVID-19 pandemic gripping most economies in a suffocating hold this year, the air has also been squeezed out of cross-border cooperation.
But there are exceptions. In deserts and along the coastlines of the Middle East, Chinese workers have been working shoulder to shoulder with workers from the host nations. Together, they have kept up the pace of construction in a range of projects, from landmark buildings to energy production and other infrastructure.
BRI projects thrive in Middle East despite COVID-19 threats (Xinhua) 10:09, December 14, 2020 CAIRO, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) Casting shadow over the world this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has been suffocating almost all economies and strangling their business activities, especially the cross-border cooperation. Nevertheless, in remote deserts and along the Gulf bay, Chinese workers, shoulder to shoulder with local friends, have never stopped their efforts in building various projects of landmarks, energy and technologies. These projects under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been lighting up the murky circumstances and creating a brighter future for participants and the China-Middle East ties.