despite the changes

According to the World Bank, since initiating market reforms in 1978, GDP in China growth has averaged nearly 10 per cent a year and has lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty.

Tea or Coffee? What a Beverage Tells Us about China today

Tea or Coffee? What a Beverage Tells Us about China today

Chinese people drink 2.1 million tonnes of tea every year. The infusion has defined traditions, history, even maps. Surprisingly, in the camellia kingdom, Starbucks opens a coffee store every 15 hours. Near the wall of what’s said to be the oldest teahouse in China, there is a short, stooped over and nicked barber wearing a […]