BEIJING coach madison wristlet small , Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Benat Intxausti Elorriaga from Movistar Team won a narrow victory in the toughest stage of Tour of Beijing 2013, taking the red jersey at the top of 1,039-metre high Mount Miaofeng.
Benat made a sudden break from the peloton about two kilometers away from the finish line. The new world champion Rui Costa was surpassed in the last 50 metres.
There was a moment that Daniel Martin from Garmin-Sharp was almost able to grab the No.1 spot, but Benat eventually won in 3 hours 43 minutes and 25 seconds. Martin ranked the second place, while David Lopez Garcia from team Sky finished third.
Benat took the red jersey Monday with 10 seconds less than the second in general classification.
As the jersey's former owner, Bouhanni Nacer from Lotto Belisol didn't try to push himself into the competition of climbers, as he ranked 95th when he arrived at the finish line. However, with the stunning perfromance during the sprint coach legacy wristlet small , he could still keep the green jersey for the third day in a row.
Jiao Pengda from team Champion System ranked 54th among 138 riders who finished today's stage, the highest-ranking Chinese rider.
This year's Tour of Beijing runs from Oct. 11 to 15, the last event on the International Cycling Union WorldTour calendar, and the only one of this level in Asia.
Tuesday's final stage wil start from Tiananmen Square to the east gate of the Water Cube.
Revealing underwear, skimpy profits
Chinese mainland's lingerie market is in the midst of consolidation. On one hand, growing demand for lingerie, especially in the high-end market, has been drawing big international brands to the mainland. On the other hand coach poppy wallet black , the lower-end market has been saturated with domestic products and brands, few of which stand out. The resulting fierce competition has left domestic lingerie companies with falling profits, though some are finding ways to set themselves apart.
Employees work at a lingerie factory in Dongguan, South China's Guangdong Province, in March 2016. Photo: CFP
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A woman surnamed Zhuang, a 29-year-old white-collar worker, snuck away from the office on her lunch break Monday to spend about two hours shopping at the newly opened Victoria's Secret (VS) flagship store on Huaihai Road in Shanghai.
Zhuang found the store impressive. Inside the four-storey, 2 coach legacy wallet black ,404-square-meter space, which opened on March 8, 2017 to mark the International Women's Day, bouquets of flowers sat among thousands of pieces of lingerie, and the scent of perfume hung in the air. On the walls, LED screens showed videos of VS models strutting fashion show runways.
Zhuang, who did not want to give her full name, ended up buying two sets of lingerie for about 1 coach value spree $109 ,500 yuan ($216.86).
It is unclear how well the VS brand is doing in China. When contacted by the Global Times, the company would not disclose its sales figures for the domestic market.
Worldwide, its sales rose to $7.78 billion in 2016, up from $7.67 billion in 2015, according to the company.
VS has two flagship stores in the Chinese mainland, one in Shanghai and one in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, as well as 26 stores selling accessories and makeup.
Other foreign lingerie brands are also vying for a piece of the growing Chinese domestic market. The Italian high-end brand La Perla coach value spree $169 , for example, has opened nine stores on the mainland since it entered the market in 2007.
Foreign lingerie brands are coming to China just as the country's lingerie market, particularly the high-end market, is taking off, said Cai Sujian, head of the Jiangsu-based China Luxury Institute.
But Cai stressed that overseas brands such as VS are not going to fundamentally alter the makeup of the domestic lingerie market, which remains dominated by low-end Chinese brands.
"A price war is eroding the domestic lingerie market, and the industry is undergoing a transition coach city tote large ," he told the Global Times on Monday.
The rise of high-end
As Chinese women shed the stereotype of being conservative and reserved, the demand for lingerie has skyrocketed in recent years.
The country's underwear market grew from $15.5 billion in 2010 to $25.5 billion in 2015, while sales of lingerie nearly doubled from $9 billion to $17.9 billion, according to a businessoffashion report in May 2016.
Official lingerie sales data in China in 2016 had not been disclosed.
Consumers interviewed by the Global Times also said they were willing to spend more on lingerie. The aforementioned consumer Zhuang, for example, said that in 2016 she spent about 300 yuan a month on average on lingerie, which accounted for about 4 percent of her monthly income, but five years ago she bought new lingerie less than once a year.
Another consumer coach hampton tote leather , Helen Meng, a 30-year-old woman working in the fashion industry, said she has been spending more on lingerie over the last two years.
"I think quality is more important than price, and I would consider buying more expensive lingerie, like those priced above 1,000 yuan, as long as their quality matches the price," she told the Global Times on Sunday.
"In the domestic high-end lingerie market, sales grew by more than 10 percent year-on-year in 2016," he said. "This trend has attracted overseas lingerie brands, most of which are more mature than domestic brands, to the Chinese market."
Fierce competition
Still, foreign lingerie brands pose little threat to their domestic competitors, Cai said. The most significant competition in the market right now is among Chinese brands.