ST. PETERSBURG Cheap NFL Jerseys China , March 25 (Xinhua) -- A Boeing 737 passenger jet landed safely Wednesday at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, with only one of its two engines in operation.


"The plane has landed safely and no one was hurt," Interfax news agency quoted an emergency services source as saying.


NAIROBI, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Investments in trade infrastructure as well as the removal of bureaucratic and procedural barriers to economic integration have positioned the East Africa region as the destination of choice for doing business, a study has shown.


A study published on Wednesday by the TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), a donor-funded organization formed to help regional states speed up integration Cheap NFL Jerseys , said the harmonization of product standards has expanded the East African Community (EAC) trade basket.


Encouraging results achieved over the past year, including investments in key ports have resulted in reduced cargo transit times on East Africa's main transport corridors, and accelerated implementation of the EAC's Single Customs Territory, said TMEA Annual Report.


TMEA Chief Executive Officer Frank Matsaert said the reduction of average time to clear goods at Kenya's Mombasa port and transport them to Kampala, Uganda to fours days has buoyed the investments in the EAC region.


Matsaert said the reduction in the number of customs declarations by 90 percent leading to an increase in trade volumes, an example of fuel imports into Uganda which has increased from 32. 1 million litres to 108 million litres are behind surge in investments.


"The results presented in this annual report point to an ever improving trade environment which is expected to spur investments and ultimately benefit the citizens of East Africa Cheap Sports Jerseys ," he said in Nairobi.


He said poor infrastructure, delays in cargo clearance and customs procedures at the port contribute to the high cost of doing business along the transport corridor.


Mombasa port serves Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern DR Congo and Southern Sudan. Traders from the landlocked states had threatened to dump the northern corridor for an alternative route through Tanzania, citing port inefficiency and corruption on Kenyan roads.


Matsaert said the ongoing infrastructure upgrades at the port would ensure increased capacity to handle growing volumes and associated demand for port services.


The report details TMEA's vision of enhancing interconnectedness in the region through trade by highlighting some of the successful projects they have supported.


Notable among these is the recent signing of the Mombasa Port Community Charter Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , witnessed by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, 25 government and private sector agencies who committed to support initiatives that will increase efficiency at the Mombasa port and the Northern Corridor.


BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- A booming digital economy is reshaping China's economic landscape as the spread of technology such as big data and AI revives traditional industries and casts new light on high-quality development.


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The country's digital economy amounted to 22.58 trillion yuan (about 3.43 trillion U.S. dollars) last year, ranking second globally and accounting for around 30 percent of national GDP. Its near-20-percent growth substantially outpaced the overall economy, which grew 6.7 percent in 2016.


The trend is likely to continue in the future and is expected to hit 16 trillion U.S. dollars by 2035.


"The digital economy has become a core engine powering China's economic growth," said Pony Ma Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , founder of Internet giant Tencent.


Tencent has plowed big money into forging competitiveness in fintech and big data, and recorded strong growth in games, digital content, online advertising and payments in the third quarter.


"China is already more digitized than many observers appreciate and has the potential to set the world's digital frontier in coming decades," the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said in a report.


As of June, there were 3.89 billion Internet users around the world Cheap Jerseys From China , of which 751 million were in China. The enormous number of web users has created room for risk takers in e-commerce, mobile payments and other emerging areas to stretch their wings.


With leading online retailers Alibaba and JD, China is the world's largest e-commerce market, accounting for more than 40 percent of the value of worldwide transactions, up from less than 1 percent a decade ago. In terms of mobile payments, China has a transaction value 11 times that of the United States.


"The digital economy is making greater contribution to the national economy and rising as a fresh driver of economic transformation and upgrades Cheap Jerseys China ," said Lin Xiunian, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner.


BOON TO HIGH-QUALITY DEVELOPMENT


As China's policymakers pledged to steer the economy onto a new path featuring high-quality rather than high-speed growth, at the recent three-day Central Economic Work Conference, digital technology will give a push to the shift, revitalizing sluggish sectors and creating new growth points.


"China will briskly foster new growth drivers Cheap Jerseys , improve technological innovation, push for upgrades of traditional sectors, and foster innovative, leading businesses," according to a statement of the key meeting.


The government has rolled out an array of policies such as "Made in China 2025" and "Internet Plus" strategies to spur the integration of Internet technologies and manufacturing, as well as other traditional sectors.


"After the process of digitization Cheap Washington Redskin Jerseys , businesses will see a 30-percent increase in production efficiency on average and a 20-percent drop in operation costs," the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said.


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