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By Sophie Yu and Ryan Woo BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Chinese tourists, millions of whom have shunned overseas travel this year because of the global pandemic, are further narrowing the scope of their journeys, visiting nearby cities and avoiding trips out of their provinces. Recent cases of the novel coronavirus in Beijing and northern China have rekindled public concern, already shaken by calls to avoid non-essential travel during the festive season between Jan. 1 and the start of Lunar New Year in mid-February. Millions of domestic tourists travel in the week before and after Jan. 1 in a typical year. Although hotel bookings for the upcoming three-day New Year weekend had reached 1.8 times of bookings a year earlier as of Dec. 24, plane tickets were nearly 20% cheaper on average, with many people not travelling far, Beijing-based online travel platform Qunar.com said. "The trend is taking a train to visit cities within the reach of one hour," the company said. The hottest train tickets are for trips between Chengdu and Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and Shanghai and Hangzhou, according to Qunar.com. Huang Li said she decided against going to Sanya, on the southern island of Hainan, after the government told people to avoid unnecessary travel. "I'm not sure if my son would be allowed to attend classes in his kindergarten if we leave Beijing," said Huang, 40. "Too many uncertainties. We might be asked to do nucleic acid tests." The [http://www.fin24.com/Search/News?queryString=Chinese%20capital Chinese capital] has cancelled large-scale events, including the 2021 Beijing Book Fair, and ordered travel agencies not to sell packages for the city during the New Year and Lunar New Year holidays. Many other cities have followed suit. Shenzhen and Dalian have told residents not to leave "unless necessary", while businesses have been ordered not to organise gatherings. In central Hubei province, where the pandemic first began, locals were told to stay indoors and cap family gatherings at 10 people. Zhou Weihong, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ kynghidongduong.vn] deputy general manager at Spring [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quốc], the travel arm of Shanghai-based Spring Group, said her agency had rolled out new offerings aimed at local tourism. "Around Shanghai, there are many splendid things people can do, and there are great hotels and hot springs," Zhou said. Not travellers all are about to cancel trips to faraway destinations. Beijing resident Cai Dong, 34, and his wife are flying to Sanya this week. "It isn't worth ruining my planned holiday just because of a handful of cases," Cai said. (Reporting by Sophie Yu and Ryan Woo. Editing by Gerry Doyle)

Virus Success Helps Taiwan Buck Global Downturn With Enviable Growth

2021-01-08T15:40:16Z

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Taiwan's economy is projected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2020, bucking the global downward trend caused by the coronavirus pandemic As the world's economies reel from the coronavirus pandemic, Taiwan is on track to end the year clocking up enviable growth -- a testament to the island's success in halting the deadly disease. Throughout much of the year, shoppers have thronged stores, restaurants have stayed busy, tourist attractions have remained open and factories have kept humming. In a remarkable contrast to comparable industrialised economies, which have taken a battering, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quoc] official projections forecast growth of 2.5 percent in 2020. "That probably will be the highest in the world," Lin Chu-chia, an economist at National Chengchi University, told AFP. For the first time since 1991, Taiwan is also set to outgrow its giant neighbour China, where the virus first emerged but has now also been largely vanquished. The International Monetary Fund estimates China will grow 1.9 percent this year, compared with a global contraction of 4.4 percent. - Act fast - Taiwan's ability to weather the coronavirus has centred on two crucial elements. When the virus first emerged, authorities made economically painful and unpopular shutdown decisions early on. From early April, Taiwan saw 253 days with no local coronavirus infections, which allowed its economy to function mostly normally Borders were shut, strict quarantine measures enforced and carriers traced. As a result, Taiwan had no local infections for 253 straight days from early April. That clean streak was broken on Tuesday when a woman tested positive after coming into contact with a foreign pilot, prompting a scramble to contain the new outbreak. But it was because the disease was essentially defeated by the beginning of April that Taiwan's high-tech economy was in a unique position to roar back. For decades, Taiwan has been the world's premier destination for computer chip and electronics manufacturing. And at a time when vast swathes of the world were suddenly forced to work or learn from home, Taiwan's factories were able to meet the soaring demand. "The key drive for Taiwan's economy is the robust export growth," Lin said. Exports soared to a historic high of $32 billion in October, up 11 percent on-year, with double-digit growth in major markets including China and the United States, official data showed. November's exports became the second highest ever, with the annual total on course to break records too. Earlier this month, Taiwan's dollar was trading at highs not seen since 1997. - Tech titans - Topping the list of a string of tech companies that registered record profits in the third quarter is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract microchip maker that supplies Apple and other international brands. Global demand for high-tech goods has meant Taiwan's exports have seen record highs this year TSMC's net profit in those three months rose by over a third on-year to $4.8 billion. Meanwhile its shares soared over 50 percent since the beginning of the year, propelling the stock market to new highs. Computer maker Acer saw revenues for its Chromebooks and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ kynghidongduong.vn] gaming hardware rise 94 percent and 70 percent respectively, to lift net profit to its highest in almost a decade. "We do see that the demand is higher than our supply into the foreseeable future," said Acer CEO and chairman Jason Chen. There have inevitably been some victims. The hotel and tourism trade has been hit hard by the evaporation of international travel. Combined revenue for listed hotels and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quoc] operators in the first 11 months of 2020 fell 43 percent from last year, according to the Taiwan Stock Exchange. But the fall could have been steeper had Taiwan suffered the repeated lockdowns and restrictions seen in many western countries. - 'Keen sense of crisis' - "I think it's not just a coincidence that Taiwan's economy can weather the pandemic," general manager of Taiwan Champ Manufacturing Andy Chen told AFP. His company has been churning out face masks this year, its revenue soaring 12-fold and production set to quadruple to 700 million masks annually. Although the international travel industry has taken a hit, business for retailers, restaurants and domestic tourism has been steady since May "Taiwanese companies have a keen sense of crisis that makes them more adaptable to changes," he said. Business for retailers, restaurants and domestic tourism has been steady since May. "We've already reached our sales target and we expect a two-digit growth for this Christmas season compared with last year," said Jenny Chien, a public relations manager for Gloria Outlets in northern Taoyuan city. She said many people who couldn't take holidays abroad used their travel budget to go on shopping sprees. Others chose to put their money in the stock market, like 47[http://lerablog.org/?s=-year-old%20accountant -year-old accountant] Jimmy Chang, who in just six months saw a nearly 20 percent return on his investment. "I think the bullish trend will continue as Taiwan's economy is growing and life is going on as usual, in contrast with serious outbreaks elsewhere in the world," he said.

Ivanka Trump To Speak Tuesday At CES 2020

2021-01-08T14:56:54Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Ivanka Trump, adviser to President Donald Trump, is coming to CES. Mark Wilson/Getty Images [/ces/ This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021.]Ivanka Trump is set to appear at 2 p.m. Tuesday at CES 2020 in Las Vegas to discuss the "future of work" with Consumer Technology Association President Gary Shapiro. [ CES] is one of the most influential tech trade shows in the world, drawing Google, Facebook, IBM, Amazon and Apple as well as countless lesser-known companies. Trump, an adviser to President Donald Trump, has played a major role in the White House's technology outreach, joining [ ] in October and accompanying the president on visit to [ ] in November. She has also joined in on discussions with [ ], as well as sitting on an advisory board with [ ]. In the past, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quốc] Shapiro has spoken out against the Trump administration's trade war with China, arguing that tariffs are hurting US chipmakers, [ as well as the nation's 5G rollout]. In August, Shapiro said the tariffs against China were "[ the worst economic mistake]" since 1930. "Instead of making America great again, the president is using tariffs to make a great economic mistake -- again," Shapiro said in the August statement. During Donald Trump's race for the White House in 2015 and 2016, Shapiro also directly opposed the real estate developer. In a [ Medium post on July 24, 2015] -- a month after Trump announced he was running for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ kynghidongduong.vn] president -- Shapiro wrote that "any respect or affection I had for Donald Trump is gone." Now playing: Watch this: CES Day 1: Foldable-screen laptops, Impossible Pork and... 15:31 Shapiro's comments came after Trump's remarks on immigrants and Sen. John McCain's military service. "As for me, I will not hold meetings at or visit any Trump property or even watch any Trump TV show until he drops out of the presidential race and apologizes to those he slandered," Shapiro said in the post. The CTA president has written [ blog posts against Donald Trump], including [ one in 2016 in which he said], "America and the Republican Party are greater than Trump. We can and should do better." Following [http://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=Trump%27s Trump's] election, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/du-lich-trung-quoc-gia-re/ tour trung quốc] Shapiro has appeared to warm up to the president and his administration. In 2017, Shapiro wrote an [ op-ed for the American Spectator], calling Ivanka Trump "the business-savvy feminist we need in the White House." The CTA has also joined the White House's "Pledge to America's Workers," which aims to add about [ 392,000 new US worker training opportunities] by 2024. In a statement in May, Trump said, "We thank CTA and all of the members who are taking that step today by signing the White House Pledge to the American Worker." Originally published Dec. 13. Update, Jan. 7: Adds Ivanka Trump's scheduled speaking date and time.

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