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...Plants are good for the stuff-averse. Try an orange tree from Patch Plants, paperwhites from Sarah Raven or a hard-to-kill Monstera from social enterprise The Glasshouse....
...China’s monthly export delivery value of goods made with leather, fur or feathers as well as footwear has fallen more than a third from 2019, hitting nearly Rmb17bn ($2.4bn) in May this year....
...Similarly, Beste Manastir, co-founder of Turkish leather goods brand Manu Atelier, says Chinese consumers were attracted by the unusual design and bright colours of her Pristine handbags....
...For design graduates, employment prospects in China are good, says Hsu....
...“In some aspects all of this looks good for Africa....
...As Gareth Leather, senior Asia economist at Capital Economics, notes, the proportion of China’s imports accounted for by intermediate goods has fallen from two-thirds in 2011 to 52 per cent, as of 2015....
...the launch of the iPhone 6 in China in 2014, ran into a series of setbacks this year, facing a ban on its iTunes video service, because of restrictions on foreign publishing, as well as a lawsuit from a leather-goods...
...Coach, the US leather goods group, is reaping the benefits within China of being more affordable than many of its upscale competitors, but says that spending by Chinese tourists is also growing....
...At first glance the state of the art factory seemed to prove that India could emulate the gleaming facilities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen....
...“A good idea can come from anywhere,” he notes. Key to innovation, he insists, is allowing people to “fail and fail often”....
...The company, which makes jackets in artificial leather, exports half of its $60m in annual sales to Europe and about $20m to Latin America....
...Kutuan’s excuse [for the delay] is that too many buyers returned the goods so they couldn’t collect, but they haven’t returned a single piece to us,” said Mr Li....
...A neutral reader is bound to worry that what is presented as “What is good for America” is actually “What is good for Dow Chemical”, and the two may not always be identical....
...The region’s lychees were particularly famous and could fetch a good price at market....
...Li Dengfeng, Guangzhou, China Alexandra Harney: You’re absolutely right that things are getting more expensive in China very quickly....
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