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BEIJING - A total of 430 people have been punished for violating laws and disciplines during a national inspection to find out whether China's huge economic stimulus package was properly used. China's disciplinary inspection and supervision organs launched a nationwide campaign, ...
China wants to develop the untapped purchasing potential of its domestic consumers and hopes Berlin will support the expansion of Chinese companies in Germany, a top Beijing official said on Wednesday. Chinese firms should have the chance to further boost some $1 billion in ...
MADRID - Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday that China is likely to buy more Spanish government bonds to help the country deal with market concerns about its solvency.Li made the remarks during a meeting with Spanish Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister ...
China will invest 700 billion yuan ($106 billion) in 2011 in building railways, the official People's Daily said on Wednesday, citing a meeting of the national railway work conference. The money would be used for 70 new intercity projects, said the official newspaper of the ...
SHIJIAZHUANG - China's central government will invest 600 million yuan to restore and protect the Imperial Summer Resort, one of China's best-known imperial resorts, in Chengde city in North China's Hebei province, a government spokesman said Tuesday. In the resort's largest ...
BEIJING - China's 2010 economic growth is estimated to reach about 10 percent, according to central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan. In a speech published Tuesday by the People's Bank of China on its website, Zhou said he was not quite confident that the nation's economy has ...
BEIJING - China's competition law enforcement authorities Tuesday published new regulations to crack down on anticompetitive, monopolistic-type behavior, amid the country's efforts to ensure competitive markets.The regulations against monopoly pricing will take effect from Feb 1, ...
China's economy may develop at a slower pace in the first quarter of 2011, but economist expect growth to speed up later in the year, China Economic Weekly reported Monday. "The growth rate may be lower this year when the country strategically adjusts the economic structure and ...
BEIJING - Nearly 70 percent of the Chinese public do not feel confident about food safety, a national survey has found. Insight China, a magazine, and Tsinghua Media Survey Lab conducted the survey, released over the weekend, against the backdrop of the government trying to ...
BEIJING - More than 80 percent of Beijing's unionized enterprises will establish collective wage bargaining systems by 2013. The Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions has released a three-year plan that aims to boost the implementation of collective bargaining in the next ...
China's fiscal revenue in 2010 is set to top 8 trillion yuan ($1.19 trillion), the National Business Daily reported on Tuesday. The newspaper used existing data from 2010 and analyzed 2009 numbers to estimate the year's revenue. The country's fiscal revenue in the first 11 months ...
BEIJING - The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway will be put into operation by the middle of June this year, Chinese Railways Minister Liu Zhijun said at a conference Tuesday.The high-speed link connecting the country's two most important cities will open ahead of its original ...
Editor's note: We started out looking for stories that would tell us how life on the ground is responding to the rising yuan and price hikes. We found tales of courage, resilience and of lessons learned and mastered. There is no clearer barometer of change than a country's ...
NINGBO, Zhejiang - This coastal city in East China is devoting as much attention to making people feel happy as it is on the hard economic figures in its 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). Randy Williams, a 50-year-old US citizen, has elected to make the city his adopted home. In ...
BEIJING - Chinese equities closed higher in thin trading on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.68 percent, or 18.54 points, to close at 2,751.53 points. The Shenzhen Component Index gained 0.42 percent, or 50.76 points, to close at 12,114.56 points. ...
China's A-share market set records in financing this year with 1.06 trillion yuan ($157.62 billion), exceeding the sum of fundraising in the last two years, which were 512 billion yuan in 2009 and 352 billion yuan in 2008, the Securities Times reported Wednesday. Statistics show ...
BEIJING - The Chinese mainland has approved the applications of six Taiwan-based banks to open branches on the mainland, a mainland spokesman said Wednesday. The mainland has also given approval for four other Taiwan banks to establish representative offices on the mainland, Yang ...
China Vanke leads two-day slump for developers following rate rise SHANGHAI - Chinese stocks fell for a fifth day, capping the benchmark index's longest losing streak since July, on concern the government will need to step up interest rates increases to curb inflation. China ...
WENZHOU, Zhejiang - Underground banking in Zhejiang province, with a highly industrialized economy dominated by private businesses, has boomed as State-owned banks tighten credit to fight inflation. These gray-market lenders are particularly active in Wenzhou, which has bred a ...
China's private equity industry is "unique" because it's dominated by the State and will follow a "different path" from overseas peers, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing Xie Ping, vice-president at the nation's $300 billion sovereign wealth fund. Entities that manage ...
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 ...