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BEIJING - Recent Chinese media reports that China and the United States had reached a tentative agreement on the exchange rate level of yuan, or China's currency renminbi, were untrue, a spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) told Xinhua Monday. According to the ...
BEIJING: The Chinese currency exchange rate has not been a top concern for US firms in China, Christian Murck, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham-China), said Monday. "A singleminded focus on the yuan is a mistake," Murck told ...
China's measures to rein in property bubbles will curb house prices while avoiding a crash, said central bank adviser Li Daokui. The government aims only to "curtail excessive price gains in some areas," Li said in a phone interview Friday. "Cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and ...
BEIJING - The United States Commerce Department said on Thursday it will investigate whether Chinese aluminum extrusion manufacturers have received government subsidies and dumped products at rates below the average market price in the US. But the department didn't say whether it ...
BEIJING - Some speculative capital, or "hot money", from overseas has flown into domestic trade and investment areas, including the property sector, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said on Tuesday. In a statement on its website, the foreign exchange regulator ...
BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao reiterated on Monday that China will continue to steadily advance the reform of the formation mechanism of the RMB exchange rate under the principle of independent decision-making, controllability and gradual progress. Hu made the remarks at ...
Countries whose currencies are held as reserves by global central banks are failing to take sufficient account of the global repercussions of their domestic policy stances, Assistant Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao told a financial forum last week in Beijing. "We call upon major ...
Pyongyang's first revamp of the won in 17 years will render the currency useless, say some Chinese traders, but experts said the revaluation will not heavily affect trade. As of yesterday, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) revalued its currency, the won, at an ...
Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday rejected "unfair" calls from European countries for faster reform of China's currency policies, despite lobbying from EU financial chiefs at the weekend. "Some countries demand the yuan's appreciation while practicing various trade protectionism ...
After a string of emerging countries - including India, Indonesia, Thailand and Brazil - began to target the flow of short-term speculative capital, many experts believe China will step up its efforts to control the flow of so-called hot money. The deputy governor of China's ...
Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman's recent push for a stronger Chinese currency "was wrong," and such a move currently does no good to the US and Chinese economies, a US expert said recently in an article on Forbes' website. Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of the ...
The migrant population in Beijing will be covered by the basic social insurance system, according to the municipal government's Humanistic Beijing Action Plan (2010-12) released on Wednesday. The draft version of the action plan covered only migrant workers, but the released ...
BEIJING - Vice-Premier Wang Qishan met US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the Chinese capital on Thursday and discussed economic ties. In a brief statement after their meeting, the Treasury Department did not say whether the two sides discussed currency issues. The Chinese ...
SHANGHAI - An abrupt and bold step to raise the value of the Chinese currency will not benefit China, the United States or the global economy, but may increase inflation risks in Asia, Xia Bin, a newly appointed member of the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee, said on ...
A trade deficit, if one happened in March, would be a "temporary phenomena" for China on the way to recovering its economic growth and "cannot last for long", Chen Deming, minister of commerce, told China Daily on Thursday. China insists that maintaining the trade balance is the ...
WASHINGTON President Hu Jintao told his US counterpart Barack Obama that China is determined to push forward reform on the exchange rate policy but the move is based on China s needs, not pressure from other countries. A press release from the Foreign Ministry issued after the ...
China should allow an immediate one-off appreciation in the yuan's value and widen the currency's trading band to stem inflows of speculative capital that might fuel inflation, said UBS AG economist Wang Tao. "China's economic fundamentals mean that the yuan should strengthen," ...
CHICAGO - A stronger yuan would not be a tonic for the US economy or manufacturing and it would be a huge mistake to raise tariffs on imports from China to force a change in the yuan, says a US trade expert on Tuesday. Daniel Griswold is director of the Center for Trade Policy ...
LONDON - US President Barack Obama's pressure on China over its currency's exchange rate is a manifestation of hypocrisy from the West and will not work, a British economist has said. "The president is playing with fire... Obama really should tread carefully. At the same time, ...
BEIJING: China on Tuesday shunned mounting US demands for a stronger yuan, saying again that renminbi is not the cause of China s big trade surplus and vowing to keep the currency stable to shore up exports. "If the exchange rate issue is politicized, then in coping with the ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's leading group for overall reform ...
China stocks close higher over liquidity injection
China stocks close higher over liquidity injection
BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares rose on Tuesday after the ...
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday slammed the remarks of ...
China cuts retail oil prices
China cuts retail oil prices
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planner announced on ...
Canada's main stock index tumbles over asset loss in emerging markets
Canada's main stock index tumbles over asset loss in emerging markets
TORONTO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock index fell sharply on ...
GM China chairman to retire
GM China chairman to retire
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. announced Friday that ...
Super car club in commercial drive
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On the night of Nov 11, more than 150 super cars were driven into the ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
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Chinese leader calls for more marine power
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli Sunday called for research in polar ...
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Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Fourteen countries expected to compete in Cuba's wrestling tourney
Fourteen countries expected to compete in Cuba's wrestling tourney
Some 14 countries and regions are expected to compete in the 45th ...