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Industry experts expect the Chinese government to launch a series of "detailed rules" to upgrade the rare earth industry after Premier Wen Jiabao announced a five-year policy guideline for the industry on Wednesday. "It was the first time that the central government had set a ...
China's first ocean economic zone in the coastal province of Shandong was inaugurated Friday when it signed contracts worth 38.6 billion U.S. dollars, signaling the country is enlarging its economic focus from the land to cover the ocean, as well. The Shandong Peninsula Blue ...
Related: Chinese Banks' Capital Adequacy Improves in Q4 The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced Friday a rise in the bank reserve requirement ratio of 50 basis points from Feb. 24. The hike, the second this year and the eighth since the beginning of last ...
China, Japan and South Korea will sign a treaty in May to boost cross-border investment and better protect intellectual property. The Nikkei says the deal is expected to be sealed when leaders of the three countries meet in Tokyo, stepping up cooperation between nations that have ...
The Chinese securities regulator said Friday that it has approved the trading of lead futures on Shanghai Futures Exchange. The Shanghai Futures Exchange had completed preliminary design of lead futures contracts and drawn up strict rules on transactions, settlements and ...
Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren on Saturday called all major economies to continue to strengthen cooperation on international economic issues and maintain the stability of main reserve currencies. At the Paris meeting gathering finance ministers and central bank governors of ...
China's top leading body Monday pledged to prevent wild swings in the economy, while warning that the economic situation in 2011 would be complicated. The country should maintain stable and consistent macro-economic policies while improving accuracy, flexibility and efficiency of ...
China's top leading body Monday pledged to prevent wild swings in economy, while warning that the economic situation in 2011 would be complicated. The country should maintain stable and consistent macro-economic policies while improving accuracy, flexibility and efficiency of the ...
China's top legislature voted on Friday to adopt a law for vehicle and vessel taxation, which aims to encourage the use of smaller engines in vehicles and vessels to reduce pollution and oil dependence. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2012. China is currently the world...
The household registration, or 'hukou', status of Chinese citizens has become more important in home purchase as cities use it as a restriction measure to cool the property market, the Beijing News reports. As of Monday, all the 14 cities which have released the local package of ...
China is to cut import taxes on some products, including formula milk and cosmetics. The move aims to balance international trade. In January, the Ministry of Finance said tax revenues jumped 23 percent year-on-year to more than 7 trillion yuan or about $1 trillion US dollars in ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), or the central bank, said on Tuesday that it has implemented "dynamically differentiated required reserve ratios" among 40 local banks with low capital adequacy ratios (CAR) and which witnessed rampant growth in lending since January. A PBOC ...
The State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) has said that all large State-owned enterprises (SOEs), including centrally-administered SOEs, will be listed in the future, the Shanghai Securities News reported Wednesday. Shao Ning, ...
Three big Chinese cities Thursday unveiled new rules to restrict home purchases in the latest efforts to rein in rapidly rising housing prices. The governments of Nanchang, Jinan and Yinchuan, all provincial and autonomous regional capitals, prohibited new home purchases by ...
The central authorities have now set to reduce the tax levied on passenger vehicles with engine capacity equal to or below 2.0 liters. The revised proposal would lower the tax on cars with engines between 1 and 1.6 liters to between 300 to 540 yuan. This is down from the 360 to ...
China's thermal power plants may suffer more loss this year as rising coal prices on global markets will drive up domestic coal prices, said a report released Friday by the China Energy Research Society (CERS). "The economic recovery around the world, especially in emerging ...
Chinese authorities have asked four major state-owned grain enterprises not to make additional purchases amid the pressure of the current increase in grain prices, "China Business" reports. The country's four main grain-buying enterprises are China National Cereals, Oils and ...
China is to accelerate its property tax pilot reform and gradually expand it to national level, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress(NPC), the country's top legislature, said in an official statement Sunday. The office, citing a report ...
By Xinhua Writers Meng Na, Zhang Zhengfu China's government will set its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth target for the 2011-2015 period at 7 percent, and make the improvement of living standards a fundamental aim. Premier Wen Jiabao, in an on-line chat with the public ...
China sets its GDP growth target at around 8 percent this year, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday. The target is set as China still faces an "extremely complex situation for development" this year, and some long-term and short-term ...
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