The retail sector added 249,000 jobs, profession and business services added 197,000 and leisure and hospitality, pounded during the pandemic as bars and restaurants shut down, gained 174,000, the BLS said.
The report, based on data from Alibaba's platforms, including e-commerce platforms Tmall and Taobao, flea market platform Xianyu, and internet literature platform Alibaba Literature, attributed the increase to easy and convenient ways to buy books and the popularity of e-books.
The sales revenue of Laoganma, a brand of chili sauce made in Southwest China's Guizhou province, hit a record of over 5.02 billion yuan (2 million) last year, according to its producer.
The request also came amid students' concerns that their answers could be unfairly marked, according to Yeung.
The restructuring of the company is not due to attack or a business downturn, but because some areas are not core business and the company wants to focus on key sectors.
The rise in consumer price inflation has not presented a major barrier for the PBOC's monetary and credit policy easing, as it was purely driven by surging pork prices, non-food consumer price inflation had already been moderating and product price inflation could fall further into negative territory, said Lu Ting, chief economist in China with Japanese brokerage Nomura Securities.
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The sales decrease over the past year was largely a result of improved air quality across China, with particulate matters smaller than 2.5 microns in the air decreasing in density, the report said.
The restaurant's decor corresponds to the philosophy of wuxing, the five elements in Chinese culture. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The robotic InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will explore the deep interior of Mars to study how rocky planets and their moons were formed.
The resurgence of violence and vandalism on Sunday vindicates the urgent need for a national security law in the city, the Hong Kong government said as it condemned extensive street violence and open advocacy of Hong Kong independence during unlawful assemblies on the same day.