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BEIJING - China's central bank said on Thursday that the country would continue to experience stable and sustainable growth in the second half, but warned that inflationary pressures continue to exist. "The Chinese economy will grow steadily following its rapid recovery but we ...
BEIJING - The number of foreign companies on the list of the top 50 preferred employers voted by Chinese college students has plunged to four from last year's 21. ChinaHR.com, an on-line employment agency, Thursday released its report on college students' preference of employers, ...
BEIJING - China has reduced duties on imports of construction materials and equipment needed in quake-hit Yushu in northwestern Qinghai province, said the Ministry of Finance on Thursday. The favorable duties apply to import enterprises in Yushu and those helping with reconstruct...
YINCHUAN - Farmers in China's arid west are taking advantage of the region's ample sunshine to increase farm output. In the northwestern Ningxia Hui autonomous region, a mostly Muslim community, many farmers have built greenhouses so they can grow chilis, cucumbers and tomatoes ...
TAIPEI - The number of tourists travelling across the Taiwan Strait increased sharply in the first half of the year, after the two sides' tourism industries launched major marketing campaigns. The number of mainland tourists to Taiwan totaled 707,400 people in the first seven ...
BEIJING - Visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris pledged Thursday to boost economic and trade cooperation with China. Sri Lanka hopes to promote economic cooperation with China through mutually beneficial commercial activities, Peiris said in a speech here. Peiris' ...
SHENYANG - Northeast China's Liaoning province Thursday reopened shipping lanes on the Yalu River, which borders the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), after services were suspended for ten days because of continuous downpours and floods. The water level had dropped ...
BEIJING - Urban residents who expect home prices to fall in first-tier Chinese cities in the second quarter outnumber those who anticipate further price hikes, according to a report by the China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center released here Thursday. About 41 percent of ...
BEIJING - China has "never discriminated" against foreign companies by using different standards in handling cases of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving the anti-trust law since its implementation in 2008, said a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. ...
BEIJING - China has decided to impose anti-dumping tariffs on pure terephthalic acid imported from Thailand and the Republic of Korea (ROK), the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The five-year tariffs, ranging from 2 percent to 20.1 percent, took effect Thursday, the ...
In order to further develop its tourism industry, Morocco is now looking to Asia, particularly China, a tourist office chief said Wednesday. "China is developing fast, and the tourist market there shows great potential," Abdelhamid Addou, general director of the Moroccan National ...
HARBIN - The Third Global Forum of Leaders for Agricultural Science and Technology (GLAST-2010) kicked off here Thursday to address food security concerns amid rising grain prices and fluctuations in the world food market. The three-day forum will focus on agricultural policy ...
BEIJING - Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Thursday put forward proposals to step up agricultural cooperation with Africa. Addressing the closing ceremony of a China-Africa agriculture forum, Hui proposed enhanced exchanges among agricultural departments, improved Sino-African ...
BEIJING - China's Health Ministry Thursday announced that a panel of nine experts had been assembled to probe claims that milk powder made by a Chinese company caused infant girls to grow breasts. In a statement to Xinhua, the ministry said it was "directly investigating the ...
BEIJING - The Ministry of Commerce said it will hold 14 multilateral ministry-level human resource training programs this year to share the country's development experiences with officials from other developing countries, especially from Africa and Latin America. These programs ...
SHANGHAI - The city has geared up to hatch new listed companies in its cultural industry by providing the sector with more financial support, a move in line with a central government plan to promote sector. "Our company has paid 100 million yuan ($14.76 million) in guarantee ...
BEIJING - A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said on Wednesday that China and Africa should find ways to deepen bilateral agricultural cooperation from a strategic perspective. Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, ...
A Chinese consumer confidence index rose in the second quarter. The measure increased to 109 from 108 in the previous three months, according to a statement released by Nielsen Co and the Chinese statistics bureau's Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center in Beijing on Thursday. ...
BEIJING - China's campaign on restructuring its publishing industry is expected to wind up by the end of 2010 as many full-fledged commercial groups see their profits surging, a senior official has said. "Most of the companies that became fully market-oriented have been ...
BEIJING - China's central government has urged more efforts to be made to ensure this year's grain output, a government statement said Wednesday. A string of policies have been rolled out to support autumn grain production, said the State Council, China's cabinet, in the ...
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 ...