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The first purchase contracts for Chinese-developed alternating current (AC) trolleybus power systems were signed in the southern metropolis in mid January. Yongji Xinshisu Electric Equipment Co Ltd, an affiliate of China's leading railroad company CNR, will make the delivery ...
Shenzhen's high-tech sector had more than 1 trillion yuan ($151.9 billion) in industrial output in 2010, a record high in the city's history and a 19.61 percent rise over 2009. Electronic information produced the biggest share, more than 80 percent of local high-tech industrial ...
Installation began on world's largest hydroelectric turbine generators at Xiangjiaba Dam in late January. Using proprietary Chinese technology, the turbines can each generate 800,000 kilowatts. At 6.3 meters in diameter and weighing more than 1,900 tons, they are the largest in ...
The eastern province topped the nation in applications and patents granted in 2010 with more than 235,000 filings - about 21.3 percent of the nation's total -138,000 of which were granted, an increase of 58.54 percent over 2009. Nearly 52 percent of the patents were from ...
The Ministry of Science and Technology recently announced it has withdrawn a national technology award because of academic fraud for the first time in the annual award's history. The revoked National Office for Science and Technology Award was granted in 2005 to a scroll ...
The State Council unveiled a series of policies last week to further stimulate growth in the software industry following a first batch issued in 2000. The new policies cover taxes, financing, research, foreign trade, human resources, intellectual property and marketing. ...
Dell Inc, which intends to focus more on its mobile business, intends to stick with the Android and Windows Mobile development platforms for the time being, a company executive said Wednesday. The future direction of the Texas-based PC giant's mobile platform would depend on ...
COFCO Wines &Spirits, a subsidiary of COFCO, the country's largest food processor, manufacturer and trader, has acquired a Bordeaux chateau at the price of 100 million yuan ($15.19 million), according to a press release from the company Wednesday. The agreement was signed on ...
The number of international air passengers from the Chinesemainland will rise by an average of 10.8 percent per year through to 2014, making it the world's fastest-growing market, industry association IATA forecast. Hong Kong will be the world's fastest-growing air cargo market, ...
Demand in China for physical gold and gold-related investments is growing at an "explosive" pace and appetite for the yellow metal is poised to remain robust amid inflation concerns, said an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) executive on Wednesday. ICBC, the world's ...
Apple Inc released its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report 2011 Tuesday, marking the first time that the tech giant disclosed the name of two Chinesesuppliers caught endangering their workers. Meanwhile, industry watchers criticized Apple for increasingly shifting responsibil...
InterContinental Hotels Group said Tuesday that it would launch a new upper mid-scale hotel brand positioned between its upscale chain Crowne Plaza and luxury brand InterContinental in China by 2011.
Apple released its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report in 2011 Tuesday, towards which Chineseenvironmentalists showed dissatisfaction and pointed out that the firm averted a big deal of responsibility as well as social commitment, according to a 21st Century Business Herald ...
The recent trend of mergers among stock exchanges has shown positive for Chinesecompanies to go public in the international markets and domestic stock exchanges won't be the targets of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, expert told the Global Times Wednesday. Deutsche ...
China's securities watchdog is planning to allow select asset management units of brokerages to launch private equity funds for the first time as soon as this year, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
China Telecom is going to triple the user numbers of its new high-speed optical fiber broadband by the end of this year to 30 million and expects to expand that number to more than 100 million by the end of China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), it said in a news release on ...
Shougang Group, one of China's largest in the business, plans to yield 1.2 million tons of silicon steel in 2011, a proportion three times larger than its output in 2010, according to the group on Monday. With more and more steel and iron companies reaching the limits of capacity ...
ZTE Corp, China's second-biggest maker of phone-network equipment, will renew attempts to bid for contracts in the United States after it said opposition from the US government foiled the signing of a previous deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. "The US government has a broadband ...
Ford Motor Co may build a new car plant in northern China after its three-way car venture splits into two separate entities, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Ford, which makes cars in China with Mazda Motor Corp and Chongqing Changan Automobile Co, operates two plants, one in ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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