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As one of Asia's major annual economic meetings, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference this year will be held April 14-16 with a focus on "inclusive development", said BFA Secretary General Zhou Wenzhong on Thursday. This year will also mark the 10th anniversary of the ...
China may soon launch a trial property tax in Chongqing and Shanghai, amid the latest efforts to rein in wildly inflated property prices. The Ministry of Finance has agreed in principle to the property tax levy in the two cities, government sources told Xinhua. The tax is ...
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council has called for the engagement of non State-owned capital, including private and foreign assets, in the stake-holdings of listed central government-invested State-owned enterprises (SOEs)...
The Chinese mainland would be facing high inflationary pressure in 2011, possibly the highest in 11 years, a Hong Kong-based economist said Friday. Ma Jun, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for China, told a seminar that he expected the mainland's consumer price index (CPI), the ...
China's tax revenues rose 22.6 percent to 7.74 trillion yuan (1.17 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2010 compared to one year earlier, the State Administration of Taxation announced on Sunday. This total included 732.8 billion yuan of tax refunds, but excluded tariffs, tonnage taxes, ...
China's bank lending growth is expected to continue decelerating in 2011, as the government continues to tighten monetary policy, notably in mortgages, a bank report said on Tuesday. However, the total amount will remain large, as the demand for credit in the real economy remains ...
The central government will expand property-purchasing limitations to second- and third-tier cities as it steps up efforts to cool the real estate market, a report said on Sunday. Authorities have drafted a list of cities to which the purchasing limit will apply, the Chongqing ...
The rents of Beijing's public rental houses will be calculated according to the income of the tenant family, the Beijing Daily reported. Zhang Guowei, an official from local housing administration, said a standard rent will be set first in accordance with the construction costs ...
China's economic growth is expected to maintain its relatively fast growth as the nation will be able to keep inflation manageable, a leading government think tank said Saturday. Experts with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) forecast that the country's economy will first ...
China's economic growth is expected to maintain its relatively fast growth as the nation will be able to keep inflation manageable, a leading government think tank said Saturday. Experts with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) forecast that the country's economy will first ...
New rules to expand China's burgeoning over-the-counter board are expected to be launched in March and they will include introducing market makers and allowing individual investors to access the "third market." The rules will probably be announced after the annual National People...
China's Ministry of Finance said on Thursday that the nation's fiscal revenue grew 21.3 percent year on year to 8.31 trillion yuan (1.26 trillion U.S. dollars) last year. Of the total, the central fiscal revenue topped 4.25 trillion yuan, up 18.3 percent from the previous year, ...
Trade volume between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan reached 145.37 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 36.9 percent year on year, according to a report by China's Ministry of Commerce. The mainland exported 29.68 billion U.S. dollars worth of products to Taiwan, up 44.8 percent ...
China's outstanding external debt (excluding that of Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan Province) reached 546.449 billion U.S. dollars, said the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) on Wednesday. Of the total outstanding external debt, the outstanding registered ...
China may cut lending by up to 10 percent this year and is also studying punitive measures to penalize lenders which lend excessively, the China Securities Journal reported Tuesday, citing unidentified banking sources. The newspaper quoted a bank official as saying that the ...
The Chinese currency is not undervalued, if measured with Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) based on Unit Labor Cost (ULC), a better way to grasp changes in competitiveness than looking at nominal exchange rate and REER based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), the United Nations ...
The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) announced Monday that it will guide the nation's banks to a scientific pace of lending this year as it stressed bank loans should better serve the real economy. The CBRC said in a statement on its website that it will also expand and ...
Battles between domestic Internet firms may be coming to an end with the announcement Friday of a new draft to regulate the information service industry and ban unfair competition. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology draft will prohibit information service ...
Property taxes, seen as a silver bullet to curb excessive growth in China's housing prices, triggered an intense debate among economists and industry analysts recently, with some saying it may not help tame soaring prices but rather, increase costs for home buyers. "The property ...
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