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BEIJING - China's telecommunication industry reported core business revenues of 667.51 billion yuan ($100 billion) during the first nine months of 2010, up 6.8 percent year-on- year, government figures show. Of this total, revenues from wireless communications hit 465.1 billion ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong saw a growth of 73 percent in the value of total wine imports in the first eight months of 2010, continuing to develop as Asia's wine hub, said an official of Hong Kong on Friday.Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Rita Lau said Hong Kong has ...
BEIJING - China's urban unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent at the end of September, with 9.05 million urbanites registered as unemployed, a Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security official said Friday. The rate dropped 0.1 percentage points from 4.2 percent at the end ...
BEIJING - The Chinese government paid 11.6 billion yuan ($1.72 billion) in subsidies for the purchase of 8.11 million cars and motorbikes in rural areas in the first nine months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The government subsidized the purchase of 2...
BEIJING - China's centrally-administered State-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported a 55-percent rise year-on-year in combined net profits in the first nine months, the SOE authority announced Thursday. Net profits of central SOEs totalled 641.65 billion yuan ($96.6 billion) from ...
BEIJING - China's customs revenues for 2010 hit 1 trillion yuan ($150.4 billion) as of Oct 14, a surge of 46.1 percent from one year earlier, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) announced late Thursday. Since the beginning of the year, the country's customs authorities ...
China Everbright Bank is likely to report an earnings increase of at least 50 percent year-on-year for the full year of 2010, Reuters reported on Friday, citing the Shanghai Securities. Li Jie, the mid-sized lender's vice president, said full year earnings in 2010 is likely to ...
BEIJING - The income of China's urban and rural residents continued to increase in the first nine months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Thursday. In the first three quarters of the year, per-capita disposable income for urban dwellers reached 14...
HONG KONG - China Mobile on Wednesday announced its unaudited net profit attributable to shareholders grew 3.9 percent year-on-year to 87.2 billion yuan ($13.1 billion) for the first three quarters of 2010. In a filing to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, China Mobile said ...
BEIJING - China's industrial value-added output growth slowed to 13.3 percent year on year in September from 13.9 percent in August, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. The growth rate for the first nine months was 16.3 percent year on year, down 0.3 ...
BEIJING - China's retail sales of consumer goods rose 18.3 percent in the first three quarters year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The retail sales of consumer goods in the January-September period totaled 11.1 billion yuan, NBS spokesman Sheng ...
BEIJING - The growth of China's fixed assets investment during the first nine months shows signs of slowing, according to figures released by China's statistics authority Thursday. The country's total fixed assets investment rose 24 percent for the January-September period year ...
In the first nine months of this year, the per capita income of urban households totaled 15,756 yuan ($2,369) and of which, the disposable income was 14,334 yuan, up 10.5 percent year-on-year. The real growth is 7.5 percent after deducting price factors, the National Bureau of ...
China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, increased by 4.3 percent year-on-year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. On a month-on-month basis, China's PPI grew 0.6 percent in September from ...
Growth of China's industrial value-added output accelerated to 16.3 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. The growth was 7.6 percentage points higher than the same period last year, NBS said. According to the ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), a major gauge to measure inflation, rose by a 23-month high of 3.6 percent in September from one year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The growth rate was 0.1 percentage point higher compared with that in August, ...
China's retail sales of consumer goods in the first three quarters this year hit 11.1 trillion yuan ($1.67 trillion), up 18.3 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The September growth stood at 18.8 percent year-on-year, said the NBS.
China's fixed assets investment in the first nine months this year rose 24 percent year-on-year to 19.22 trillion yuan, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics Thursday. The growth rate was 0.8 percentage point lower from that for the first eight months.
China's GDP grew 10.6 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of this year to 26.87 trillion yuan ($4.04 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The growth was 2.5 percentage points higher compared with the same period last year. China's economy ...
China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd, the country's top developer by market value, posted a near doubling of operating profit in its third quarter and appears on track to achieve its full-year sales target despite tightening policies, Reuters reported on Wednesday. China Overseas ...
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 ...