20190721 China News

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JLL, Swire Properties and Ping An Urban Tech announced a partnership in Shanghai on Friday which will launch an accelerator project that focuses on prop tech to embrace innovation in the real estate industry.

Nearly 100 students and faculty members from 16 foreign cities in friendship with Shanghai arrived in the city for a two-week summer youth camp to learn about Chinese culture with 57 local high school student volunteers.

South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's foreign trade volume rose 24.8 percent year on year to nearly 227 billion yuan (about 33 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2019, with robust trade with the European Union (EU) and the United States.

China's new round of reform and opening-up, and consumption upgrade will create new opportunities in niche sectors including high-tech waste recycling, quality control, food safety, medical processes and fintech, areas where French companies have proven technological expertise, a senior French business leader said on Friday.

China's accomplished shipbuilding output in the first half of this year stood at 19.66 million deadweight tons, up 4.2 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Property investment and consultancy firm CBRE expects an upbeat sentiment and increasing opportunities to invest in technology in the commercial property sector in coming years, said Chandra Dhandapani, its chief digital and technology officer.

ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co Ltd will reshape the value chain of insurance by incorporating more technology into the businesses in the next five years, with the appointment of new senior leadership.

Source:Globaltimes, Xinhuanet, Chinadaily, Shine, Gdtoday，China Plus News

Author: Producer Emilio Mendez

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Edition: EAcham