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Guangzhou has set an annual economic growth rate of 11 percent for the next five years as the southern China city shifts its focus from fast economic growth to improving people s livelihoods. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the city s people s congress ...
As China s growth figures have rocketed, criticism of the country s GDP first approach has also been rising. That criticism is now starting to influence policy: in January, the Communist Party branch in Guangdong, a province in southern China, specified a Happy Guangdong as one ...
A criminal, surnamed Huang, never expected surfing the Internet would land him in prison. Recently, Zhaoqing police of Guangdong Province hunted one criminal down through cyber sleuthing, Guangzhou Daily reported on Feb. 22. On the early morning of Nov. 26 last year, a local ...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in south China's Guangdong Province confirmed Monday that the company had participated in a phone network installation bid for the London Underground. A senior executive of the company told Xinhua that the bid was worth some 50 million pounds. "Huawei ...
Shenzhen has launched a campaign to remove and correct signs displaying poor English in public places. The city foreign affairs department has compiled standards for the English translation of public signs, which can be downloaded at www.szfao.gov.cn. This is one of a series of ...
A 32-year-old Ghanaian expat who lost about 10,000 yuan (US$1,521) in a visa scam had to leave Shenzhen yesterday before his visa expired. However, before he left, the Ghanaian, who asked for anonymity, told Shenzhen Daily of his experience to warn other expatriates. Since his ...
A high-speed rail linking Shenzhen and Maoming in Guangdong Province had been approved by the State Council, China News Service reported yesterday. A section of the Guangdong Western Coastal High-speed Rail, the 371-kilometer project would be built under the Pearl River and reach ...
Although it has already become difficult for Shenzhen residents to buy milk powder in Hong Kong because of the high demand, the situation worsened recently as fears rose over domestic leather milk. In the past two weeks, many supermarkets and pharmacies in Hong Kong had run out ...
Shares of Chinese Internet giant Tencent surged Monday with the opening of a new joint venture with US group-buying website Groupon. The launch of bargain website GaoPeng.com boosted Tencent Holding stocks by 3.2 percent to finish at 206 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. GaoPeng...
Guangdong cities are encouraged to open budget grocery stores to benefit low-income families, the provincial authorities said Sunday (Feb. 27). Guangdong will open at least 300 budget grocery stores selling food at lower prices in Pearl River Delta cities this year. By the end of ...
Han Ximin Expatriates living in Shenzhen said they were happy to help correct wrong or poorly translated road signs in a three-month campaign at the invitation of the city transport commission. The campaign will focus on traffic road signs at expressways, highways, trunk roads ...
The latest American Chamber of Commerce special report on the state of business in South China found budgeted investment by hundreds of its members would fall to $8.6 billion this year, from around $9.5 billion last year. The cutbacks were attributed to a redirection of foreign ...
A total of 132 foreign volunteers from Europe are expected to serve at the Universiade in August, according to the Volunteer Department of the Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen Universiade on Thursday (March 3). The 132 volunteers include 100 organized by the European ...
English will be widely promoted on the city s public transport system to better serve expatriates and visitors attending the Universiade. Metro companies would set up English information counters at stations and the customer service department of bus companies will open multiple...
Nearly 700 students from Shenzhen Foreign Languages School study abroad for at least one year through exchange programs every year. In an attempt to become a first-class international middle school, the school often invites foreign students and teachers in exchange programs, Xie ...
Starting March 1, the minimum wage for workers in the central districts of Guangzhou increased from 1,100 RMB to 1,300 RMB. The minimum hourly wage has risen from 6.32 RMB to 7.47 RMB for full-time staff and from 10.6 RMB to 12.5 RMB for part-time staff. In suburban districts ...
The labor shortage that has bitten the catering business and assembly lines for years is now spreading to other industries such as software programming. Southern Metropolis Daily said the labor shortage had affected every business in the city despite the legal minimum wage in ...
South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC), the country's first university which recruits students independently, is targeting elite students and hiring renowned professors to become part of a research-intensive university. The university is widely regarded as ...
China's southern economic powerhouse Shenzhen said Thursday it would raise the minimum wage by 20 percent, following a similar move by Shanghai, as China continues to battle rising inflation and a labor shortage. The hike, effective from April 1, would bring the minimum monthly ...
China Southern Airlines, with the nation's largest air fleet, said on Thursday (March 3) that it would fly directly between Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, and Auckland, New Zealand starting on April 8. This would be the first non-stop air service between ...
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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 ...
Xinhua Exclusive: China advised to highlight community healthcare in addressing
Xinhua Exclusive: China advised to highlight community healthcare in addressing aging issue: WHO official
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
China cuts retail oil prices
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Wall Street slumps following global sell off
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China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
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HK Disneyland Gets Toy Story Land
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Malaysia to allow foreign companies make small hybrid cars
Malaysia to allow foreign companies make small hybrid cars
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Dreamliner launches its world tour in China
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