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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240717) -- BEIJING, July 17, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker checks glasses at a glasses company in Danyang City, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 16, 2024. Dubbed as China's "spectacles city," Danyang has more than 1,600 companies engaged in the eyewear industry. To maintain its market share and keep up with the new market demand, eyewear companies in Danyang have attached more importance to innovation and branding in recent years and a whole industrial chain has taken shape. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Li Bo)

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(230405) -- YANBIAN, April 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Jingtai poses for a photo in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 4, 2023. Jiang Jingtai, coffee roaster of a food processing company in Yanji, has been engaging in the coffee industry for 9 years. Considering the continuous development of coffee consumption market in Yanji and the increasing demand for roasted coffee beans, Jiang Jingtai decided to change his career from a barista to a coffee roaster. The coffee bean processing factory, which Jiang Jingtai works for, roasts about 500 kilograms of coffee beans every day, covering the supplies of dozens of cafes in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. The northeastern border city of Yanji in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture has witnessed a spark of coffee trend as over 540 coffee shops are registered in the 680,000 dwellers city in recent years. According to the data from Meituan Waimai, a major food delivery platform in China, Yanji ranked first in coffee

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(230227) -- CHENGDU, Feb. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 21, 2023 shows oil storage tanks at an environmental protection tech company in southwest China's Sichuan Province. About 400 tons of waste oil is made each day by local catering service industry in Chengdu, among which 70 to 80 percent would be transported to environmental protection tech companies in Sichuan and recycled into products. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)

Hitachi develops portable gene-analyzing germ detector

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. has developed a portable germ detector (in photo) which can detect germs such as E. coli bacteria within an extremely short period of time through gene analysis and will start selling it next spring, the company said at a press conference on Oct. 12. The device, which consists of a 4.5-kilogram collector and a 23-kg analytical instrument, can detect such germs in about 40 minutes to 2 hours, compared to the current times of about one week by incubation and half a day by gene analysis, Hitachi said. (Kyodo)

More than 2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., investigated last year over a food-poisoning scandal, enter a building June 28 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to attend the company's general shareholders' meeting. Some 2,100 listed and unlisted companies across Japan held such meetings the same day.

Contaminated Snow Brand milk products recalled, sorted out

OSAKA, Japan - Employees at Snow Brand Milk Products Co. sort out contaminated milk products at the company's Osaka plant in Miyakojima Ward on July 6. The products, contaminated with a toxin-producing bacteria, have been recalled after causing widespread food poisoning over the past week in western Japan.