BEIJING Wholesale Oregon Ducks Jerseys , Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The EU ambassador to China, Hans Dietmar Schweisgut said Wednesday that he was staying optimistic on the future of China's reform and opening up, even if economic shift was hard.

Schweisgut expressed his opinion in a forum hosted by the Global Times celebrating the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up in Beijing.

Schweisgut said China's economy was now shifting to become more consumption-based and more innovation-driven, which was a complex progress and qualitative change, bringing more difficulties for future reform.

However Wholesale Penn State Nittany Lions Jerseys , Schweisgut said he was optimistic as the Chinese model had proven flexible enough to adjust to the situation, and he hoped it would continue to be flexible in the future.

Schweisgut said he thought China's leadership had recognized the challenges, and he said he hoped to see the implementation of more policies.

He said that during the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, the cooperation between China and the EU had traveled a long way, expressing his hope that in the future China and the EU could build a more equal Wholesale South Carolina Gamecocks Jerseys , fair and balanced bilateral economic relationship.

Facebook Inc offered reassurances to investors on Wednesday that its digital ad business would remain highly profitable, despite a dip in usage on the social media network and an overhaul of its flagship News Feed.

The company said in an earnings report that quarterly revenue jumped 47 percent from a year earlier, and executives said on a conference call that they saw more chances to make money even if people spend less time on Facebook.

Analysts had wondered about the resilience of the world’s largest social media network, which is making changes to its products to deter foreign influence campaigns like ones that it says Russia has carried out and to stem the spread of sensationalism.

Facebook added to jitters after the bell on Wednesday when, in its earnings report Wholesale Texas Longhorns Jerseys , it said that at the end of last year time spent by users had fallen by about 50 million hours a day.

Shortly afterward, though, Facebook executives expressed optimism on the call with analysts, saying the changes they were making in response to criticism would be healthy for the business in the long term and might not even hurt much in the short term.

“I want to be clear: The most important driver of our business has never been time spent by itself. It’s the quality of the conversations and connections,” Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the call.

Facebook management “acknowledged things that maybe most investors weren’t thinking about before — the reduction of users and usage — but at the same time they pointed to a lot of positive trends on their other platforms Wholesale Ucla Bruins Jerseys ,” Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser said.

Although Facebook usage is down, he said, “One shouldn’t be reflectively negative on this.”

Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told analysts that recent changes to reduce disinformation on Facebook could create “more monetization opportunities.”

Sandberg said she was optimistic about potential revenue from ads on “stories” on Facebook and Instagram, while Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said the average price per ad increased 43 percent in quarter.

“They said average revenue per ad was up a lot, that quality of ads has improved Wholesale Usc Trojans Jerseys , and that the engagement declines were not meaningful,” Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said.

“In other words, better quality engagement and better ability to target ads. The street probably likes that,” he said.

Facebook said that time spent was falling at the end of last year by about 50 million hours a day due to changes that it said reduced viral videos, even before the company announced a series of changes to the News Feed that may further reduce user engagement.

Facebook’s 1.4 billion daily active users was up 14 percent from a year earlier Wholesale West Virginia Mountaineers Jerseys , but below analysts’ estimate of 1.41 billion for the fourth quarter, according to financial data and analytics firm FactSet.

The number of daily users in the US and Canada fell for the first time in Facebook’s history.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants on Monday, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years ago.

State TV aired a brief statement in the early hours Monday announcing the start of the widely anticipated military offensive to drive IS out of Iraq's second-largest city.

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Broadcasts showed the prime minister, dressed in the uniform of the elite counterterrorism forces, speaking while flanked by senior military officers.

"These forces that are liberating you today, they have one goal in Mosul which is to get rid of Daesh and to secure your dignity. They are there for your sake Cheap NCAA Hats ," he told the city's residents, using an alternate name for the militant group. "God willing, we shall win."

The thuds of sporadic artillery shelling rumbled across the rolling Nineveh plains in the direction of Mosul, witnesses said. State TV broadcast patriotic music within minutes of the announcement.

The push to retake Mosul will be the biggest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011 and, if successful Cheap NCAA Shirts , the strongest blow yet to the Islamic State. A statement on Al-Abadi's website pledged the fight for the city marked a new phase that would lead to the liberation of all Iraqi territory from the militants this year.

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