«In technology, Chinese firms are actually ahead of Western firms in areas such as e-commerce and social media,» says Neves, citing the country's ubiquitous WeChat platform, which has often left fashion marketers scrambling to keep up with
its breakneck pace of development.
Not exact matches
And according to a detailed analysis by Nan Zhou and colleagues at the China Energy Group
of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California such trends, coupled with the
breakneck pace of China's
development, means peak stuff could arrive there much sooner than anticipated.
As Qatar readies for the 2022 World Cup spotlight, ramping up what was by most accounts already a
breakneck pace of infrastructure
development, my time in the capital
of Doha has shown me — culturally speaking, anyway — that Qatar is well prepared to accommodate the international demographic it hopes will visit during the soccer tournament, and beyond.