Business has turned around in the restaurant and hairdressing sectors in the first two weeks of this month, with 80 percent of restaurants and salons re-opening around the nation, according to the China National Information Center.
According to statistics, the number of customers and business volumes in the domestic restaurant sector in the first two weeks of the month are at 60 percent of normal volumes, with business in large restaurants on the rise.
Only 20 percent of restaurants are still closed, eighty percent of hairdressing salons have reopened, and 60 percent of beauty salons have reopened.
Business volumes in ten Chinese cities including Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai nose-dived by 64.96 percent from mid April to early May this year from a year before, with half of domestic hairdressing salons suspending business during that period.
(Shanghai Daily June 28, 2003)
