Alibaba, Tencent-backed China Literature, and Shenzhen Hive Box were each fined 500,000 yuan ($76,463) by the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Organizers expect 25 million visitors to attend over the course of the six-month event, despite concerns about the pandemic’s impact on travel and tourism.
The multilateral approach to global affairs came under attack during Donald Trump's administration, but it's likely to return under President-elect Joe Biden.
Von der Leyen spoke with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson via telephone on Sunday with both now mandating their negotiating teams to continue their work.
Swiss biotech firm Relief Therapeutics has seen its share price climb by nearly 38,000% so far this year, as it develops a drug focused on respiratory failure arising from severe Covid-19.
China buys much of Australia's iron ore, which has been spared in deteriorating relations that pummeled many of Australia's exports to the Asian country.
The Covid-19 pandemic and work-from-home policies have resulted in a wave of nomadic working professionals who have ditched their apartments for Airbnbs.