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The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, reaffirmed Monday that it would give more prominence to stabilizing prices, and implementing a prudent monetary policy during the next year. Further, China will make its monetary policies more targeted, flexible, and ...
China's Christmas Day interest-rate rise was a fresh sign of Beijing's determination to cool inflation, even if it means slower growth in 2011. It also should be a wake-up call for those, such as commodities-market bulls, who believe in perpetually high Chinese growth. Over the ...
Oil prices settled under $91 per barrel Monday after the People's Bank of China said it would raise interest rates to cool its rate of inflation. The central bank in Beijing said it would raise its benchmark rate 0.25 percentage points, lifting the one-year lending rate to 5.81 ...
China will continue to implement its proactive fiscal policy in 2011 and better handle the relations between maintaining steady and relatively fast economic development, restructuring the economy and managing inflation expectations, Finance Minister Xie Xuren said Monday. Xie, ...
China's grain production will increase 15.6 billion kilograms to 546.4 billion kilograms this year as farmers' per capita net income grows 10 percent to 5,800 yuan (865.7 U.S. dollars), according to a statement released at the conclusion of the central rural work conference which ...
The Chinese central bank announced interest rate increases Saturday in an apparent response to inflation fears. The People's Bank of China said it will raise the one-year benchmark lending rate by 25 points to 5.81 percent and the benchmark deposit rate by the same amount to 2.75 ...
The National Development and Reform Commission (NRDC) said on the 23rd that the Price Department would focus its efforts next year on regulating agricultural product prices, as well as strengthen regulation of medicine prices, educational fees and other prices related to people s ...
Oil rose to a fresh 26-month high on reports that crude stocks shrank and the economy accelerated in the US, the world s largest petroleum consumer. Nymex February West Texas Intermediate crude rose 48 cents to $90.30 a barrel, trading above $90 for the third time this year. ICE ...
Oil World has, for a second time in two weeks, reduced its hopes for Argentina soybean crop, warning that, thanks to dry weather, it could be on course for a fall of more than 20%. The highly regarded analysis group, which last week cut its forecast for the crop by 1.5m tonnes to ...
China's top economic planner said Monday that price supervision and control measures have achieved steady progress with 2010's Consumer Price Index, slightly exceeding the target ceiling by 0.3 percentage points to hit 3.3 percent. To rein in soaring commodities prices, joint ...
Governments considering price controls, export bans or investing in crop futures to tackle soaring food inflation should think again, United Nations officials warned, as the head of Nestle forecast high bills may be here to stay. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation ...
Chinese farm produce prices rose for a fourth consecutive week, through Jan. 23, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. One reason for the price hike was that freezing weather in southern China had affected vegetable production and transportation, the ministry said in a statement ...
China allocated 1.039 billion yuan (157.66 million U.S. dollars) in additional funds to the icy rain-hit south and drought-affected north regions, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Thursday. The funds, allocated jointly by the MOF and Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), will mainly ...
The International Monetary Fund said yesterday that the uneven pace of recovery between sluggish advanced economies and buoyant developing ones will lead to financial instability for the next two years, and growth in developed countries will not be strong enough to address the ...
China hopes that U.S. exports to China will total 200 billion U.S. dollars by 2015 and there will be an end to discriminatory policies toward China particularly those that target U.S. hi-tech exports. Chen Deming, China's minister of commerce, expressed these views during his ...
At the beginning of 2011, the second decade of the 21st century, the China-ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting has great significance, said Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, on Tuesday. Yang spoke highly of the significance of the meeting, which was held on Tuesday ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 4.6 percent year on year in December, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday. The CPI was up 3.3 percent in 2010 from the previous year, the NBS said. The monthly figure was slightly lower ...
China's government will set its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth target for the 2011-2015 period at 7 percent, and make the improvement of living standards a fundamental aim. Premier Wen Jiabao, in an on-line chat with the public Sunday, said the GDP target for the 12th ...
China s economy expanded faster than expected at the end of last year adding to concerns about overheating and prompting expectations of further monetary tightening in the coming months. Fourth quarter GDP growth rose to 9.8 per cent, beating expectations, with GDP growth for the ...
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--China has purchased an additional 8.45 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans, bringing its two-day total to 11.52 million, the U.S. Soybean Export Council said. The deals, with several companies, were signed Friday in a ceremony coinciding with Chinese ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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