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China's Education Minister Yuan Guiren warned Friday that the country's record number of 6.3 million college graduates next year would pose "severe challenges" to the job market. Yuan told a tele-conference that universities should offer students more professional job-hunting ...
Profits of China's State-owned enterprises (SOEs) administered by the central government more than doubled in October from a year ago after months of declines, a senior official said in Beijing on Friday. The 132 central SOEs reaped a profit of 79.5 billion yuan ($11.64 billion) ...
China's 11 largest publicly-traded banks may need to raise about 300 billion yuan by selling shares and bonds to ensure they have adequate capital for credit growth, according to BNP Paribas. The lenders would need as much as 368 billion yuan to keep their capital ratio at 12 ...
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) had seen first year-on-year growth in business revenue this year after declining for nine months, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF). For the first 10 months of the year, business revenue of China's SOEs stood at 17.9 trillion yuan ...
South China's Guangdong province is expected to achieve economic growth of 9 percent this year, higher than the target of 8.5 percent, governor Huang Huahua said Thursday. The worst time was over and this year's economic situation was better than expected, Huang told Xinhua. ...
The gross domestic product (GDP) of China's western regions rose 12.5 percent in the first nine months from a year earlier, China's top economic planner said Thursday. The growth rate was 4.8 percentage points higher than the national rate, said a statement on the National ...
China received 93.94 million overseas tourists in the first three quarters of the year, down 3.45 percent from that of the corresponding period of 2008, a tourism official said in Kunming on Wednesday. "The global financial crisis and the spreading A/H1N1 flu jointly affected the ...
China's industrial output is expected to grow by about 16 percent year-on-year this month and in December and the full year industrial output growth could reach around 10.5 percent, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said on Saturday. At the 3-day ...
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) announced Friday that the country's power consumption in October rose 15.87 percent year-on-year to 313.42 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), up for the 5th consecutive month since June. The growth is 5.63 percentage points higher than the ...
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Special Coverage: China Biz & Economic Statistics China's retail sales in October rose 16.2 percent year-on-year to 1.17 trillion yuan ($171 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday. The rise was 5.8 percentage points lower than that of a year earlier...
Special Coverage: China Biz & Economic Statistics China's industrial output rose 16.1 percent in October from a year earlier, as the economy saw a consolidated recovery of growth with massive government spending. The increase rate was 7.9 percentage points higher from a year ...
Prices of agricultural products in 36 large and medium-sized Chinese cities dipped 0.1 percent in the week of Nov 2 to 8, compared with the previous week, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Tuesday. Twenty-six out of 57 kinds of farm produce saw week...
Special Coverage: China Biz & Economic Statistics China's urban fixed-asset investment rose 33.1 percent in the first 10 months to 15.07 trillion yuan ($2.21 trillion), compared with the same period a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday. The ...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Shanghai this year may surpass the amount last year to reach a record high, said a senior government official yesterday. "Despite the influence of the global financial crisis, FDI in Shanghai has grown relatively stable this year," said Sha ...
Premium income of China's insurance companies hit 1.02 trillion yuan ($149.6 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, up 11.65 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission Thursday. The year would be the first year that China's ...
Chinese urban residents showed more willingness to invest and spend in the fourth quarter this year, according to a survey launched by the nation's central bank. The People's Bank of China survey showed 42.1 percent of urban residents chose to put their money in investment, such ...
Chinese banks reported 11.4 percent of capital adequacy ratio at the end of the third quarter, well above the international safety standard of 8 percent, which added evidence that the nation's banking industry was in good shape. The banks' core assets capital adequacy ratio ...
Chinese bankers are more confident in the nation's macro-economy and expect a continuous economic uptick in the future, a survey by the central bank said on Wednesday. Bankers' confidence index (BCI) for the macro-economy rose for three straight quarters to 70.1 percent in the ...
Shanghai's retail sales expanded by 13.8 percent year-on-year to 43.4 billion yuan ($6.35 billion) in November, the city's statistics bureau said yesterday. The pace was a bit slower than the growth of 14.1 percent in October, a month viewed as a prime season for spending due to ...
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 ...