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Car buyers examine a new car. Some of the complaints are attributed to consumers who lack knowledge about their purchase and register unnecessary concerns. [China Daily] Nearly half of complaints filed about auto quality last year were on relatively new vehicles, according to a ...
The Chevrolet Sail made by GM is popular in the compact segment. [China Daily] Despite the expiration of government incentive programs to fuel auto sales, General Motors set an all-time sales record of more than 268,000 vehicles delivered last month in China, an increase of 22 ...
The State drug regulatory body announced plans for new drug production quality management standards, which are expected to help further integrate the highly fragmented sector. The new plan, called the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, is slated to go into effect March ...
TRANSFORMERS fought for world domination in "Revenge of the Fallen." Now they're taking aim at Lego. Toy maker Hasbro Inc is joining the building-block fray with a new line called Kre-O that's compatible with Lego blocks. The first products feature popular Transformers characters ...
THE outgoing head of Germany's Bundesbank decided against seeking the presidency of the European Central Bank because he believed his opposition to its bond-buying program would have posed a credibility problem. Axel Weber had been favorite to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet at the ...
DEMAND for second-hand Shanghai car plates is soaring since the supply of new ones was reduced and restrictions tightened on plates from outside the city. The price of a second-hand Shanghai car plate price has increased 10 percent since before the Spring Festival - up to 44,000 ...
Fertilizer and specialty chemical maker Israel Chemicals said Sunday it had signed contracts with several customers in China to supply a total of 500,000 tons of potash in the first half of 2011. Israel Chemicals said the price agreed was similar to the price reached by other ...
The Ministry of Commerce said Saturday that sales of home appliances in rural areas jumped 123 percent from one year earlier in January to 25.36 billion yuan ($3.84 billion), boosted by a government subsidy. In January, 10.49 million home appliances were sold in the country's ...
The rising cost of rubber is putting pressure on domestic tire producers, which have seen declining profits for most of the last 12 months. Net profits of Wuxi Boton Belt Co, a rubber product maker, totaled 44.19 million yuan ($6.70 million) in 2010, a drop of 8.51 percent over ...
Swedish automaker Volvo Automotive Group's Chinese operation officially has opened its headquarters in Shanghai, announced Stefan Jacoby, president and CEO of the group. Its China technology center was established in the Jiading district of Shanghai. The newly established center ...
Sales of luxury vehicles on the Chinese mainland continued to grow in January, including 15,330 vehicles under the Mercedes-Benz, AMG, smart and Maybach brands, an 80 percent increase over the same period the previous year. Mercedes flagship model, the ninth-generation S-Class, ...
FAW Group recently set up an R&D department to develop electric vehicles (EV) after receiving 720 million yuan under the State-sponsored "863 Program" to develop batteries, electric motors and electric control system. In addition to the new EV department, FAW Group also has R&D ...
Suzuki Motor Corp will begin recall of 4,007 Grand Vitara SUVs in China at the end of this month to fix faulty springs that might cause steering problems, China's quality watchdog said on its website recently. The recall will affect four Grand Vitara models that were produced ...
German magazine Automobilwoche recently reported that Volkswagen Group will increase its VW brand staff to 290,000 employees, up from the current 250,000, the majority of them in China. The report, citing the company's internal documents, said Volkswagen plans to add 21,000 ...
Domestic carmaker Chery Automobile Co exported 10,505 vehicles last month, a 132.5 percent increase over a year ago and 19.2 percent more than the previous month. By the end of January, China's largest auto exporter had sold nearly 480,000 vehicles overseas since first it began ...
Nearly half of complaints filed about auto quality last year were on relatively new vehicles, according to a report released by China's quality watchdog on an auto news website. The report said complaints on cars with less than 10,000 kilometers on the odometer comprised 45.17 ...
US no longer top market for century-old automotive icon Despite the expiration of government incentive programs to fuel auto sales, General Motors set an all-time sales record of more than 268,000 vehicles delivered last month in China, an increase of 22 percent over a year ...
US auto parts maker Delphi expects the fast-growing Chinese market to help it double the share of its global business generated in the Asia-Pacific region over the mid-term future. Majdi Abulaban, president of both Delphi Asia-Pacific and Delphi China, said in a recent interview ...
EMBA course offers film and TV executives an opportunity to develop their managerial abilities Kang Bao has to make four days available every month out of his tight schedule to take lessons to earn an executive master of business administration degree (EMBA) at the University of ...
Valentine's Day provides retailers with a chance to boost profits Following hard on the heels of a record spending binge by the Chinese over Spring Festival of 404.5 billion yuan ($61.29 billion), another shopping season has arrived with Valentine's Day and the traditional ...
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