At the gates of the old city of Kashgar with one of the most common dilemmas: keep the original architecture or change to a complete renovation losing the historical characterization of these cities?
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To guarantee this technological leap linked to international trade, we need to implement a strategy based on three pillars: 1) digitalisation, 2) the development of digital payment systems and 3) the strengthening of the logistics sector. Without one of these factors, the internationalization of companies cannot be completed, in a world that always gives more room to digital forms of trade, even cross-border.
On Saturday, I attended a job fair held at Shanghai Stadium. I stopped and talked to many of the companies trying to recruit new workforce - a typical scene post New Year - and many told that they cannot find anyone. The average manufacturing industry salary in China has increased by 300%, to 3.6US$ per hour in last ten years. The current salary has exceeded Brazil, Mexico, and it is catching up with Greece and Portugal. Although manufacturing industry is one of the leading industries, thus employing large number of people, the average salary nationwide has also growth from 1.5 dollars per hour to 3.3 dollars per hour over the last 10 years.
China's first central document of 2017 promises to maintain the drive to resolve rural issues on the road to a moderately prosperous society by 2020. The first policy statement of year is widely referred to as the "No 1 Central Document." For the past 14 years, it has been devoted to agriculture, farmers and rural areas. The Chinese government is facing the classic dilemma of: on one hand trying to increase the living standard of the rural population and at the same time narrowing the Urban-Rural income gap.