Since it's called Bikini Beach, we thought we should give visitors an extra incentive.

Shoppers nowadays are typically in pursuit of young, trendy and fashionable brands, as well as a completely different and rewarding shopping experience. This has made the replacement of conventional department stores with various smaller multi-brand units an inevitability for landlords in order to give their malls an exciting and trendy image that would suit young shoppers' needs, while boosting their level of rental income.

Equally significant is that among all overseas visitors, mainland visitors are the most willing to spend on shopping, with each visitor spending close to 3,000 HK dollars (390 US dollars) on average, nearly double that of US shoppers.

The remarkable surge in retail rentals reflected a strong demand for retail properties in the market.

It was just a courtesy call, not part of an official state visit.

This flexible mechanism, this managed floating regime, will allow us to adjust the yuan exchange rate flexibly in the future.