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SAAB Automobile Tuesday formed a strategic partnership with China's Hawtai Motor Group, which will allow the Swedish firm to secure a capital lifeline and expand in the world's largest auto market. The tie-up will allow the Dutch Spyker Cars NV-owned Saab to access 150 million ...
The automaker Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd has signed a preliminary cooperative framework with Beijing Runfar Investment Group to establish a joint venture. The deal will lead to the establishment of the largest auto plant in Benin in West Africa, with a total ...
Following a series of scandals, China's food and drug industries are facing "serious public mistrust," a recent report has found. In a scale of one to 100, the country's food industry earned a score of 65.4, or "serious," in the severity level of cheating the public, according to ...
China's steelmakers -- battling to stop their profit margins from further decreasing -- are diversifying into sectors unrelated to steel, including wine production, robot manufacturing, and real estate. While steel production in China has increased over the years, steelmakers' ...
China's key retail sales enterprises enjoyed brisk sales during the May Day holiday which lasted from April 30 to May 2, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in a statement on Wednesday. During the holiday, the total sales volume surged 19.7 percent year on year, while the daily ...
Chinese State-owned enterprises under the administration of the central government - so-called Central SOEs - have been ordered to "actively participate" in building government-subsidized homes, which is the country's top priority this year. As part of its 12th Five-Year Plan ...
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corporation filed a report with China's quality inspection authority on Wednesday to recall some of its 2011 Mitsubishi ASX (Active Sports Xover) cars. The recall, which is set to begin next Tuesday, affects five imported 2011 Mitsubishi ASX ...
The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office. The department, known as the State Internet Information Office, will direct, coordinate and supervise online content ...
Honda Motor said Wednesday that the production halt at its Chinese plants was unrelated to the March earthquake that hampered its supply chains. Instead, the pause in production was due to a "routine check" that had been scheduled before the earthquake occurred, said Zhu Linjie, ...
No formalin has been found in the milk powder imported from S. Korea into China due to different milk sources, the general agency of South Korea's Maeil Dairies said Tuesday. The declaration came after Maeil Dairies, South Korea's third-largest dairy company, was found to have ...
ZTE Corp responded on Friday to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's lawsuit over patents and trademarks, claiming the former has to "fight back" any disputes, the Beijing News reported Wednesday. Huawei sued ZTE for patent and trademark infringement in Germany, France, and Hungary on ...
Chinese Internet companies have been falling in U.S. trading ahead of the impending IPO by by Renren. Investors are said to be worried that the new listing by China's biggest social-networking website may dillute the market by allowing the company to expand. Sina dropped 9.5 ...
A committee to promote the development of human resources in Beijing's Zhongguancun technological base, often referred to as "China's Silicon Valley", was established on Wednesday. The committee is being jointly organized by the Beijing municipal government, the Organization ...
[By Zhou Tao/Shanghai Daily] Economists long advocated the use of auctions to assign scarce resources. Two Nobel laureates won their prize largely for that reason. Ronald Coase first proposed auctioning the airwave spectrum in a paper in Journal of Law and Economics in 1959, and ...
China's authorities have ordered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under the central government to be "actively involved" in building affordable houses as part of the country's effort to provide low-income residents with affordable homes. As part of its 12th five-year plan (2010...
China, after supplying the world with cheap household products for almost three decades, could soon be offering New Zealanders a roof over their heads too. A New Zealand entrepreneur is hoping to offer recyclable, movable houses designed in North America and made in China, the ...
Hundreds of thousands of catering industry employees in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, may soon receive more pay because of a contract recently signed by members of a local labor union and their employers. If the agreement wins the approval of local government ...
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China's non-manufacturing sector rose for a second straight month to 62.5 percent in April, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Tuesday. The rise indicates non-manufacturing businesses are maintaining healthy growth, ...
China may cut its investment in railway infrastructure this year by more than 200 billion yuan ($31 billion) following an earlier decision to slow down the operating speed of its high-speed trains, the Economic Observer reported on Tuesday. The Beijing-based newspaper claimed the ...
AVIC International Holding Corporation recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Teledyne Continental Motors, a U.S. aircraft engine manufacturer. As the Chinese government plans to open more low-altitude airspace (below 3,000 meters), the acquisition will make ...
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