Shanghai Prepares For CIIE
Shanghai's transport commission said the city was undergoing a scheduled transport "rearrangement" for the third China International Import Expo.
The expo will commence Nov. 5 and last through Nov. 10.
The city launched 29 projects to enhance transport during the expo and it expects to accomplish them by the end of this month. The North-South Elevated Road from the Outer Ring Road to Luban Overpass and Beidi Road from Outer to Middle Ring roads have so far completed an infrastructure enhancement.
In efforts to alleviate traffic pressure, several bus routes will be scheduled to extend their destinations to the expo exhibition center. There will be 100 buses on standby for emergency situations and 2,500 new-energy taxis will be put into service.
As of Sept. 27, the Shanghai transport commission associated with the city's health commission made a rehearsal of tackling transport emergencies around the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai.) Fifty taxis, 50 buses and 700 people participated in the rehearsal.
E-commerce Livestreaming Active In Rural Regions
As of June, there were 309 million e-commerce livestreaming users in China and 285 million internet users in the rural regions, the Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a recent report on the country's internet development.
The report was issued by China Internet Network Information Center. It suggested the urban-rural digital gap had significantly narrowed in China. Meanwhile, e-commerce livestreaming has become the country's fastest-growing internet application in the first half of 2020.
There were more than 10 million livestreaming marketing activities in the first half of 2020. More than one third of netizens had bought products via online platforms, said the report.
Online promotions of agricultural products from impoverished areas had reached over half of the Chinese internet users, which was 940 million as of June this year. A charitable livestreaming program selling local specialties from Hubei Province generated more than 40 million yuan ($5.87 million) in sales.
The report said rapid internet and e-commerce livestreaming development in China integrates the nation's efforts at poverty eradication and economic recovery.
China Reports 12 Coronavirus Cases Amid Busy Holiday
As of Monday, 31 provinces in China reported 12 COVID-19 infection cases, all imported from overseas, according to a statement by the National Health Commission.
This indicates the nation has effectively controlled COVID-19 as half a billion Chinese have been traveling across the country during the national holiday.
The new infection cases include five in Guangdong, three in Sichuan, two in Shanghai, one in Tianjin and one in Shaanxi. Meanwhile, there were 31 imported asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and no increase in domestically transmitted cases by Sunday.
Among the 2,933 COVID-19 cases imported from overseas, 2720 patients have recovered and left the hospitals. No deaths were reported to date.
