Changsha Evening News (Reporter Bu Jinwen) Yesterday, Grandma Liu, who lives in Mawangdui, sold a sewing machine from over 30 years ago to a waste collector for 20 yuan, while Grandma Liu's grandson Xiao Wang successfully sold the sewing machine manual online for more than 20 yuan. The reporter learned that at present, these product manuals, which have been popular for some years, have become an alternative collection for many people, with prices ranging from a few yuan to over a hundred yuan. The old manual is more attractive than the actual product 　According to Grandma Liu, her pedal sewing machine was produced in the 1970s, which is large and very old and bulky, and many waste collectors are unwilling to take it. Grandma Liu spoke well and finally sold it to a vendor for 20 yuan. To Grandma Liu's surprise, a user manual accompanying it was sold online by her ...

June 5th, 2008 is "World Environment Day". The United Nations Environment Programme has designated the theme of this year's World Environment Day as "changing traditional concepts and promoting a low-carbon economy". This theme requires governments, businesses, and communities of all countries to jointly take measures to reduce carbon emissions, promote the establishment of low-carbon economic systems and lifestyles, achieve a green and clean economy globally, and significantly reduce the use of inefficient fossil fuels, while developing new types of renewable energy.   Since the Industrial Revolution, human emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have been increasing year by year, and the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere has also been enhanced. As a socially responsible enterprise, we should all take action.   For example, ...

After China's accession to the WTO, it has brought both impact and opportunities to the domestic mold manufacturing industry. Overall, opportunities outweigh challenges. Why do you say this? Before China joined the WTO, the import of molds was basically a duty-free product. Domestic mold enterprises have long been independent of tariff barriers for protection, and surviving enterprises have long withstood the test of global economic integration competition. Moreover, after joining the WTO, it provides domestic enterprises with broader options and price reduction space in selecting imported production equipment and steel, creating favorable conditions for the domestic mold manufacturing industry to improve quality, reduce costs, and enhance market competitiveness.Of course, we cannot ignore that as some multinational corporations and internationally renowned enterprise g...

Information Times News (Reporter Xu Yier): After increasing the export tax rebate rate of 3486 labor-intensive, high-tech, and high value-added goods starting next month, yesterday, Information Times reporters learned from reliable channels that the comprehensive transformation plan for value-added tax with a tax reduction scale of 100 billion yuan submitted by the Ministry of Finance in early September has been approved by the State Council, with a minimum tax reduction scale of 150 billion yuan and is expected to reach 200 billion yuan. It will be implemented from January 1, 2009.The global economic downturn has implicated China. According to the latest figures released by the Chinese Ministry of Finance on the 20th, compared to the cumulative increase of 33.3% in the first half of this year, the national fiscal revenue growth in the third quarter was only 10.5%, ...