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Society
Digital tax refunds, fee settlements provide convenience for Chinese heading overseas. If you ever drop spare change, do you pick it up? The answer is most likely “yes”. However, every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are being left behind as cross-border travelers don’t reclaim the value-added tax that is available to them.
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Lifestyle
Tomorrow is China’s 70th birthday. Food is always an indispensible part of any birthday celebration, and in China, as traditional would have it, the signature birthday dish is not a cake, but a bowl of noodles. The noodles are known as changshoumian, which literally means “long-life noodles”. Chinese people believe that the longer the noodle, the better the wishes for a long and healthy life.
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Business
China is a very important market for Swiss exports and investment, attracting large numbers of Swiss small-and medium-sized companies eager to expand their businesses and seek cooperation opportunities, a senior Swiss diplomat said. China is rapidly developing in terms of innovation and a batch of high tech Chinese companies have emerged, said Yves Morath, counselor and head of the Swiss Business Hub China at the Embassy of Switzerland in China.
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Business
The Yancheng National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Yancheng, East China’s Jiangsu province is looking to attract more professionals and innovation resources from Italy to accelerate its development. The zone on Sept 9 hosted the semifinals of the China-Italy Best Startup Showcase & Entrepreneurship Competition (BSSEC) 2018/2019, with 10 shortlisted Italian participants battling it out in the competition’s “advanced production” category.