The first bid has been confirmed for McDonald’s China and Hong Kong restaurants as the US fast food giant plans to franchise its outlets in the country.China’s Sanpower confirmed to the BBC it had put in a joint bid with Beijing Tourism Group.There are more than 2,200 McDonald’s in China with plans to open 1,250 more.In March, McDonald’s had said it would reorganise its business in China, seeking to franchise its restaurants.Media reports have suggested that the US company has received more than half a dozen bids, which could raise as much as $3bn (pound 2bn).Global franchise plansCompetitor Y...
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The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has landed in Spain, completing the Atlantic leg of its historic bid to circumnavigate the globe.The landing in Seville marked the end of the 15th stage of Solar Impulse’s route.Pilot Bertrand Piccard made swift progress over the ocean after leaving New York on Monday.Mission managers will now plot a route to Abu Dhabi where the venture began in March, 2015.The project had hoped to end the Atlantic leg in Paris, to echo the pioneering flight in 1927 of Charles Lindbergh.Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis aircraft was the first to make the solo crossing.As it...
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The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has declared a financial emergency less than 50 days before the Olympics.Interim Governor Francisco Dornelles says the "serious economic crisis" threatens to stop the state from honouring commitments for the Games.Most public funding for the Olympics has come from Rio’s city government, but the state is responsible for areas such as transport and policing.Interim President Michel Temer has promised significant financial help.The governor has blamed the crisis on a tax shortfall, especially from the oil industry, while Brazil overall has faced a d...
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The 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi.At its peak, the computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second.It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday.Its main applications include advanced manufacturing, weather forecasting and big data analytics, wrote Jack Dongarra in a paper about the new machine.It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,916 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.Fo...
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But now this growth model is stagnating, and China knows it needs to change to keep its economy growing.China has always been a country that copies its way to success, not a place where creativity thrives. So are China’s plans to turn into an innovation superpower realistic?The answer may lie in China’s tech capital, Shenzhen. It’s a city that was built on the back of achieving the Chinese dream.And at a busy traffic junction in the city, you can see a tribute to the man who started the Chinese miracle: Deng Xiaoping, who is credited with the economic success of modern China.In the 1980s, he b...
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