At 1 pm on a typical weekday afternoon, a Laderach outlet in Taikoo Li shopping center, Shanghai, receives constant customer flows.

在一个典型的工作日下午1点，上海太古里购物中心的Laderach门店接待着源源不断的顾客。

Encouraged by the impressive performance of its weekend flight offerings, China Eastern Airlines on Monday launched a new product catered toward weekday flights, according to the Shanghai-based carrier.

Priced at 3,456 yuan, the new package allows users to take unlimited flights to any destination in the Chinese mainland on weekday mornings before 8am and on weekday evenings after 8pm.

The segment of the railway for the new track serves more than 250 trains on a typical weekday and is used by 40 percent of LIRR riders.

[Photo provided to China Daily]Kulvinder Birring leads beauty and health chain Watsons China's transformation into a lifestyle labelAt 2 pm on a hot, humid and hectic weekday in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Kulvinder Birring, acting CEO of Watsons China, is unfazed, spirited, full of energy.

"We anticipate there will be 50,000 weekday boardings once all seven new stations are built, and there will be nearly 80,000 new daily trips on this entire Metro rail system as a result of the opening of the Purple Line Extension," LA Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington said at a signing ceremony.

Li guides study tours for primary and secondary school students, and receives dozens of buses carrying the students every weekday.

Even though it was dinnertime on a weekday in early May, Zhang Yuping, vice-president of GEM Co Ltd, still talked with his colleagues on the phone about the progress of transporting a batch of used power batteries from new energy vehicles－which were bought from a large-scale State-owned enterprise in Zhuzhou, Hunan province－to its waste recycling and new energy material parks in Loudi, another city in the central province.

On weekday afternoons, the facility turns into a community center where volunteers teach the elderly to sing, dance, cook, arrange flowers, make handicrafts and use smartphones.

Rising incomes, changing attitudes and stronger advertising from industry players fueling market boom in ChinaIt's 9 pm on a weekday, and Zhang Yanhua, a hair transplant surgeon with Cloud Hair BeauCare Clinic in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, is still busy at work.

For Zhang, a typical weekday afternoon is marked by an hour-long session at a high-end Bikram Yoga studio in downtown Beijing.