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China's GDP grew 11.1 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year to 17.28 trillion yuan ($2.55 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The growth was 3.7 percentage points higher compared with the same period last year, when China was still ...
China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, increased by 6 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday .
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased by 2.6 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday .
In the first half of this year, total investment in real estate development amounted to 1.97 trillion yuan ($291 billion), up 38.1 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday .
China's imports and exports increased by 43.1 percent year-on-year to $1.35 trillion in the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. Exports reached $705.1 billion in the first six months, up 35.2 percent and imports totalled $649.8 ...
Companies offering housekeeping services will start signing up casual contract workers as full-time employees starting next month. The change in the status of employees, from ad hoc housekeepers into staff members with formal contracts and more rights and responsibilities, was ...
BEIJING - China's fiscal revenue rose 27.6 percent in the first six months from a year earlier to 4.33 trillion yuan ($639.74 billion), said the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Thursday. From January to June, tax revenues increased by 30.8 percent from the same period last year to 3.86 ...
BEIJING - China's prosecutors have recovered a total of 31.26 billion yuan ($4.62 billion) through investigation and prosecution of corruption and bribery cases from 2005 to May of this year, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP). Procuratorial departments ...
China reduced the 2010 rice output forecast to 196.6 million metric tons from an estimate of 197.3 million tons made a month ago, the China National Grain & Oils Information Center said today in its July report. The 2010 production forecasts for other crops were maintained at 168 ...
China has removed about 25,000 tons of tainted milk powder as of February, a Chinese Health Ministry official said Tuesday. Chen Rui, an assistant director of the Ministry of Health's Food Safety and Health Inspection Bureau, said that 25,000 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder ...
BEIJING: A local court in the city will hear a case on Thursday in which an online shoe-seller is suing Google for damaging its reputation. Beijing Letao Culture Development Co Ltd, which runs letao.com, accuses Google of unfair competition and violating advertisement laws, ...
BEIJING - China has approved 27 websites to sell medicine to individual consumers via the Internet, the State Food and Drug Administration announced on its website on Tuesday . The administration stipulates that the 27 online pharmaceutical dealers could only sell over-the...
Shanghai may overtake Singapore to become the world's busiest container port this year, helped by a strong rebound in global trade, the Straits Times said. Shanghai handled more containers between April and June, the report said, citing data compiled by port authorities. In the ...
The call for financial talent has become a matter of urgency for Beijing, with news that nine job vacancies are now competing for one professional and the situation may get worse. Since most financial companies are located in large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, ...
BEIJING - China's economic growth is likely to slow to 10.6 percent in the second quarter as the effects of the government's massive stimulus package weaken, analysts are forecasting. Pei Changhong, head of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Chinese Academy of ...
MACAO - The average occupancy rate of Macao's hotel sector reached 78.6 percent in May 2010, with three-star hotels at 81.2 percent, according to the figures released Tuesday by Macao's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). At the end of May, the total number of available guest ...
BEIJING - The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced Tuesday that it has authorized the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK), to provide RMB cash settlement services to Taiwan. An agreement had been signed between the PBOC and the BOCHK to allow the BOCHK ...
BEIJING: China will fine companies up to 2 million yuan ($295,400) for sending misleading or fake information about price increases, according to a new draft regulation by China's economic planning agency. The announcement by the National Development and Reform Commission ...
LHASA - The Tibet autonomous region hosted 1.8 million tourists in the first half of the year, up 20.3 percent from the same period last year, the regional tourism administration said Tuesday. While most visitors were Chinese tourists, the "roof of the world" also received 78,000 ...
Hainan province would invest more than 3.5 trillion yuan ($517.6 billion) in developing itself into an international tourist island in the coming 11 years, according to the provincial tourism development commission. Most of the money will go to tourism and other modern services. ...
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 ...