The big-spending Chinese -Super League received more than 16.6 million online viewers in last weekend's first round Air Vapormax Flyknit , including 700,000 from overseas, new media broadcaster LeSports said Tuesday.

In a statement, LeSports also estimated that the total online audience for the 30-round league will reach 500 million due to rapid growth in the number of new media users.

Game attendance for the 16-team league has reached 26,500 per match, notwithstanding the postponement of a clash between old rivals Beijing Guoan and Tianjin Teda.

Top-flight clubs spent a total of $365 million for foreign players during an eye-catching winter transfer window Air Vapormax , with Jiangsu Suning topping the spending list.

Suning's match against Shandong Luneng was the most popular first-round match online, with 4.85 million Web users watching the game via digital devices.

HARARE, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Eleven people were killed on Monday and 14 others were seriously injured when a light motor vehicle collided head-on with a minibus in Zimbabwe's northern Mashonaland Central Province, police have confirmed.

Police spokesperson Charity Charamba told state media that preliminary investigation indicated that both vehicles were speeding and the driver of the light motor vehicle had encroached into the lane of the minibus which had 21 passengers on board.

"Of the 14 injured, five were transferred to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (in Harare) while others are admitted at Mvurwi Hospital," she told The Herald newspaper.

The accident happened hardly two months after 43 people died in early June after a Zambia-bound bus they were travelling in overturned in the Hurungwe area along the Chirundu highway Nike Vapormax 2018 , more than 200 km from Harare.

Another 31 passengers died and were also burnt beyond recognition in April when a South Africa-bound bus side-swiped a haulage truck about 220 km from Harare on the Masvingo Road, causing both vehicles to catch fire.

In March, at least 14 people died after a minibus collided head-on with a haulage truck just outside the city of Bulawayo on the road to the border town of Beitbridge.

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TIANJIN, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- This Monday marked the 203rd birthday Adolphe Sax Nike Vapormax Blue , the inventor of the saxophone. The Belgian could never have imagined that over a hundred years after his death his invention would become the lifeblood of a small Chinese village.

For more than a decade, Sidangkouzhong Village, in north China's Tianjin Municipality, has been thriving thanks to the instrument-making industry. It has earned the nickname "Saxophone Village" as it produces more than 10,000 saxophones per month.

"Almost every family in my village has someone who knows how to make saxophones," said Zhang Guomin Nike Vapormax Pink , Party chief of Sidangkouzhong.

Invented in 1840, saxophones have a complicated structure which cannot be produced solely by machinery, much of the process must be completed by hand.

According to Zhang, the village now has about 70 instrument factories with a total output value of about 45 million U.S. dollars in 2016.

The boom of the saxophone industry in Sidangkouzhong actually happened slowly over a long time frame, he said.

In 1970s, in order to increase villagers' incomes Nike Vapormax Platinum , a small factory was established to produce instrument components for a larger factory in Tianjin.

After China's reform and opening up drive started in 1978, more factories were set in the village. By the 1990s, almost every family had an instrument workshop, according to Zhang.

In the 2000s the village began to focus specifically on saxophones, due to an increase in worldwide demand. Many small factories were transformed into modern companies and some even attracted foreign investors.

Zhang is involved in a joint venture with an output value of more than 10 million U.S. dollars per year. He said, like many other villagers Nike Vapormax Off White , over 95 percent of his products are exported.

Saxophones have not only brought wealth to the village, but also created enthusiasm for studying music.

"Many of our students are very interested in playing the saxophone, so we established a band to train them," said Liu Huanyu, head of the village primary school.

According to Liu, young farmers can often be seen playing saxophones in the fields in summer. For them the instrument is a form of entertainment while they work.

Although usually made of brass Nike Vapormax White , saxophones are actually a member in the woodwind family.

"They are more powerful than other woodwind instruments and more adaptable than the brass instruments, which makes them popular all over the world," said Jiang Shengyong, a well-known saxophone player based in Tianjin.

Zhang said the village is also exploring how it can transform and update its instrument manufacturing industry in order to meet the diverse demands of the market.

"Producing high-end and tailer-made saxophones and other instruments is the way forward," he said.

SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Sentiment among South Korean manufacturers advanced this month on strong demand for locally-made tech and chemical products in overseas markets Nike Vapormax Black , central bank data showed Friday.

The business sentiment index (BSI) for manufacturers stood at 83 in September, up 5 points from the prior month, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK). .