The two companies employed data on e-commerce consumption, high-end product consumption, online reading, house relocation, and online social networking activities for the task.
Although the combined high-shellfish diet scenario represents the sum of individual shellfish consumption rates, it is consistent with estimates of high-end shellfish consumption [see Supplemental Material, p. 4 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1103695)].
Despite of the global financial crisis, Chinese high-end clothing consumption remained in rapid growth ("China's fashion industry" 2014).
A certain kind of advertiser, naturally, likes shows about high-end taste and consumption.
As Beijing's industrial structure is being constantly adjusted to improve the proportion of high-end services, the water consumption per RMB 10,000 GDP is dropping at 4% substantially.
After three decades of relentless growth based on cheap labor, investment overdrive, and exports, the new Chinese leadership, under Xi Jingping and Li Keqiang, is carefully re-orienting the economy towards domestic consumption, high-end manufacturing, and liberalized property and capital markets.
Moreover, the absence of lower income households could also weigh on overall economic growth -- putting a lid on the mass market and skewing consumption toward high-end products.
Similar plenums in 2003 and 2008 produced calls for a shift to a more sustainable economy based on more consumption, more high-end services like finance and more high-tech jobs.
After all, it's easier to cut consumption of high-end luxury goods than staples like toothpaste.
