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BEIJING - China will enhance regulating its property market in 2011 and strengthen implementation of the tightening measures already unveiled by the government, a senior official said Wednesday. Jiang Weixin, minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a national ...
BEIJING - China expressed its resolve to strengthen the fight against corruption Wednesday as it released its first ever white paper on anti-graft efforts. The report, titled China's Efforts to Combat Corruption and Build a Clean Government, was issued by the Information Office ...
BEIJING - Next year China will launch a crackdown against a new form of corruption - excessive celebrations, seminars and forums organized by officials - and will tighten the management of government vehicles, an official statement said on Tuesday. The Political Bureau of the ...
798 million yuan worth of goods seized, stiffer penalties called for BEIJING - The State Administration for Industry and Commerce tracked down about 6,000 trademark violation and counterfeit cases worth 798 million yuan ($120 million) in its latest campaign, a senior administrati...
BRUSSELS - China's trade surplus has been exaggerated by the current statistical method to measure trade, an expert at a Brussels-based think tank said. "I would say that China's export is not as large as some say it is. The large export figures include value that has been added ...
BEIJING - The Chinese mainland will implement tariff reductions on goods and services as listed in the early harvest program of the cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) as scheduled, a mainland spokesman said Wednesday. Tariffs on 539 Taiwan goods will be ...
BEIJING - More than half of Chinese netizens think online transactions are unsafe, which has had a huge negative impact on China's e-commerce development, according to industry experts. Mao Wei, chief scientist with China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), said in the ...
BEIJING - China has built 33,000 kilometers of new freeways over the past five years, taking the country's total to 74,000 kilometers, the country's top transportation official said Tuesday. The total was still short of the 100,000 kilometers of expressways in the United States, ...
SHANGHAI - Shanghai's Pudong district, dubbed as China's Wall Street, plans to woo more outstanding professionals from overseas to help sharpen the zone's innovative edge, said a human resources official Tuesday. Pudong plans to employ more than 900 overseas professionals within ...
SHANGHAI - China may need to build more affordable homes next year than the 10 million units planned as the target may not be "sufficient" to meet the country's demand, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing the International Strategy & Investment Group. According to the ...
BEIJING - China has set its first round of 2011 rare earth export quotas at 14,446 tons, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday. The quota was down 11.4 percent year-on-year compared with the 16,304 tons in the first round of last year, ...
BEIJING - China has been working to reduce the risk of decreasing grain harvests caused by global warming in coming decades. Estimates placed the losses suffered by 2030 at between 5 percent and 10 percent if climate change continues, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences ...
Tianjin Binhai New Area's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) amounted to 223.13 billion yuan $33.68 billion in the first half of this year, exceeding the 222.66 billion yuan generated by the Shanghai Pudong New Area, the China Business News (CBN) reported Tuesday. This is the first ...
China Chamber of Commerce for Metals, Mineral and Chemicals Importers and Exporters (CCCMC) calls on more countries with rare earth resources to take part in the exploration of the rare-earth elements and make global supplies more diversified, the China Securities Journal ...
BEIJING - China's land sales may top 2 trillion yuan ($302 billion) this year as the nation tries to control rising home prices. Analysts said that surging land sales would be detrimental to the nation's economic health and the government must work to keep them low. The new ...
BEIJING - China's anti-graft authorities announced on Monday in a statement that during the year it had found 21.5 billion yuan ($3.24 billion) of public money held in unauthorized departmental coffers. The probe was led by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the ...
HONG KONG - As an international financial and trade hub backed by one of the most robust economies in the world, Hong Kong's economy recovered vigorously in 2010, outperforming most forecasts made earlier, with sound GDP growth and low unemployment rate. After a revised 2.6 ...
BEIJING - China's top legislature on Monday moved to drop the death penalty for 13 economy-related non-violent crimes in the latest amendment to the Criminal Law. "The amendment focuses on limiting the death penalty by removing some of the death penalty crimes and restructuring ...
BEIJING - China's pace of industrialization has gone faster than Japan's and Chinese products are moving up the value chain, Ernest & Young's Global Chairman and CEO James Turley said in an interview via e-mail with Xinhua."When I was a boy in the United States, 'Made in Japan' ...
China's economy slowed in the second quarter as the government steered monetary and fiscal policy back to normal after a record credit surge last year to counter the global crisis. Annual gross domestic product growth moderated to 10.3 percent from 11.9 percent in the first ...
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
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 ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
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...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...