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BEIJING - China's gold output rose nearly 6 percent year on year to 127.34 tons in the January to May period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Friday. Gold output totaled 28.3 tons in May, a statement posted on the ministry's website said. Gold ...
GUANGZHOU - Apartment rents in China's major cities witnessed sustained growth in the first six months of the year even though property prices saw a gradual drop. In Beijing, the average rent of an apartment rose to 2,792 yuan ($410.6) a month in the first half of the year, a ...
BEIJING - China's foreign debt stood well over $443.2 billion at the end of March, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement on its website Friday. The figure excluded the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Macao SAR and Taiwan. The ...
BEIJING - China's foreign debt rose 3.4 percent in the first quarter to stand at $443.2 billion at the end of March, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Friday. Short-term debt totalled $276.2 billion, up from $259.3 billion at the end of 2009. Seventy percent of ...
The average starting salary offer reached 2,694 yuan for 2010 graduates, 10 percent higher than last year's alumni, and standing at the same level with the year of 2008, according to a recent survey by zhaopin.com, China's online recruitment pioneer. New graduates had expected to ...
Employees in the financial and insurance industry earn the highest payment in China, Xinhuanet.com reported Friday, citing a survey from zhaopin.com, an online human resource agency. The average pay for people in the financial and insurance industry stood at 97,000 yuan per year. ...
HARBIN - Daqing Oilfield Co, the largest oil subsidiary of PetroChina, produced 20.07 million tons of crude oil in the first half, the company said Friday.Natural gas output reached 1.66 billion cubic meters in the same period, it said in a statement.Last year, its crude ...
Auto sales in both the United States and China slipped in June from the previous month and major automakers said there was no sign of the second-half-year recovery. China's auto sales slumped by 17.4 percent in June from May, to less than 10 million vehicles, while production of ...
The central parity of the renminbi (RMB), or China's currency yuan, strengthened to 6.7720 per US dollar on Friday, a new record high, according to the data released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. China's central bank announced on June 19 that it would further the ...
A report from BOCOM International Holdings Co Ltd said that the country's economy is set to slow down in the second half, with gross domestic products (GDP) growth to slow to 10.2 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, the China Business News reported Friday. ...
China, the world's second-biggest energy consumer, may post a 9 percent gain in monthly oil demand in the second-half of 2010 from a year earlier as its reliance on oil imports grow, China Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals said. Monthly oil demand may reach 35.5 million metric tons, ...
Not counting economically affordable and price-limit houses, 41,457 residential units were sold in Beijing in the first half of this year, down 43.9 percent from the same period last year, National Business Daily reported Friday. According to a report issued by Beijing Homelink ...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc lowered its full year 2010 forecast for growth in China's real gross domestic product to 10.1 percent from 11.4 percent, according to a research report today. Citing China's monetary tightening policies, Goldman economists Yu Song and Helen Qiao wrote that ...
BEIJING - China' s credit cards risks remain low as figures show bad debt rates stood at 2.3 percent as of the end of the first quarter, while that for the United States and Singapore were at 9.95 and 4.7 percent, an official with China' s banking regulator told Xinhua Thursday. ...
BEIJING - The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, auctioned 22 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) worth of three-year bills on Thursday at a yield of 2.68 percent. The move came after the central bank sold 55 billion yuan of one-year bills in its regular open market ...
BEIJING - Qingdao Port, China's second largest foreign trade port, saw its foreign trade cargo throughput up 21 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2010, the port's chairman said Thursday. Foreign trade cargo throughput hit 128.87 million tons in the first half of the ...
BEIJING: The central parity of RMB, China's currency , strengthened to 6.7858 per US dollar on Thursday, a new record high, according to the data released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. China's central bank announced on June 19 that it would further the reform of ...
Net assets of all Chinese fund products, except for Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) funds, totaled 2.05 trillion yuan as of June 30, down 500 billion yuan from the end of last year, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday. Given the backdrop of the Chinese ...
XI'AN - PetroChina's second-largest oil and gas subsidiary, Changqing Oilfield, will raise its crude output by 14.5 percent to 18 million tons this year, the company said Wednesday.PetroChina is the listed arm of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country's largest ...
BEIJING - The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 52.1 percent in June, down 1.8 percentage points from last month, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said Thursday. The PMI includes a package of indices to measure manufacturin...
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 ...