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China's consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, was up 4.9 percent in August, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Wednesday. The figure, compared with 6.3 percent in July, 7.1 percent in June and 7.7 percent in May, was lower than most forecasts. "The ...
BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday met with his counterpart from the Republic of Korea (ROK), Han Seung Soo, to discuss the Beijing Paralympic Games and bilateral ties. Wen welcomed Han, who attended the opening ceremony of the Paralympics on Saturday, and thanked ...
China has submitted a report on last year's defense expenditure to the UN to make its military spending more transparent and to build greater trust with other countries. This is China's second report to the UN since it joined the world body's military budget transparency ...
China expects an increase in grain output for the fifth consecutive year, with production to exceed 510 million tons, the State grain information center said. "We estimate that this year's harvest will be 511.5 million tons, up more than 10 million tons from 2007," the center's ...
The impact of China's economic reforms in the last three decades has been as awe-inspiring, if not more, than the country's growth rate during the period, according to a leading international economist. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, living standards (in Britain) ...
The Ministry of Health has been given primary responsibility for food safety supervision under the latest draft of the legislation that was submitted for its second reading to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on Monday. The ministry will also shoulder a ...
China will complete the construction of its first four strategic oil reserves by the end of this year, a senior government official said Monday. "The progress has been smooth and all the four bases will be completed by the year end," Zhang Guobao, administrator of the National ...
China will complete the construction of its first four strategic oil reserves by the end of this year, a senior government official said Monday. "The progress has been smooth and all the four bases will be completed by the year end," Zhang Guobao, administrator of the National ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, was up 6.3 percent in July, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. The figure, compared with 7.1 percent in June and 7.7 percent in May, was broadly in line with most forecasts. "The continuous decline ...
Geneva -- Marathon talks to salvage a global trade pact collapsed on Tuesday as the United States and India refused to compromise over a proposal to help poor farmers deal with floods of imports. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy announced the ...
Three aftershocks that jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday had left one dead, 17 injured and about 1,200 houses destroyed as of 5 p.m.. According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, three tremors measuring 5.6, 4.9 and 6.0, respectively, on the Richter ...
The gloomy prospect of the US economy has weakened the greenback. In contrast, the yuan has risen about 7 percent this year, more than the margin for the whole of last year. Exporters and manufacturers, especially the smaller ones, are groaning under pressure created by the ...
China's largest refiner Sinopec, together with 34 other Chinese companies, made it to this year's Fortune 500 list released Thursday, the best-ever showing by Chinese companies in the ranking. With sales of $159.26 billion, Sinopec led the Chinese group at the 16th place, ...
BEIJING -- The number of Chinese people under extreme poverty has dropped from 250 million in 1978 to 14.79 million in 2007, according to national statistics on rural poverty observation. The research, jointly conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Council ...
Areas affected by the May 12 earthquake are facing a "critical situation", as the annual flood approaches, a senior official from the Ministry of Water Resources said on Wednesday in Beijing. Jiao Yong, deputy water minister, said at a press briefing that some parts of China have ...
China's economy had been slowed to expand at a more desirable and moderate rate for the five months to May, according to an official macro economy index chart, the national statistics agency said on Tuesday. The macro economy index chart, filed by the National Bureau of ...
GUANGZHOU - Torrential rain from tropical storm Fengshen has killed 16 people in Guangdong province, up from nine on Friday, local authorities said on Sunday. Another nine have gone missing since the downpours began, a provincial flood control headquarters spokesman has said. ...
There's no escaping rising inflation - signs of it are everywhere. The latest sign could be in your meal at a fast-food outlet. McDonald's, the world's largest fast food chain, yesterday raised its prices in China, for the second time this year, following measures to increase ...
Tropical storm Fengshen hit the southeast coast of China on Wednesday with heavy rains and strong winds, bringing new misery to a region already struggling to recover from this month's floods. Fengshen, which killed hundreds in the Philippines as a typhoon, made landfall ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Sunday revealed its five-year plan for the Party's prevention and punishment of corruption. The committee has ordered Party organs at all levels to seriously carry out the plan which aims at establishing a system to punish ...
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