Feature: World Cup sets off consumption boom in China

by Sportswriter He Leijing

NANJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Despite a five-hour time difference and absence of their national team, Chinese football fans are still full of zest for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, as the global football extravaganza has fueled a consumption drive in the world's second-largest economy.

Wang Xiaolin, one of the avid fans in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, has set up a home