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2011-1-13 Chinese banks extended 480.7 billion yuan in new loans in December, down from 564 billion yuan in November, the People's Bank of China said on Tuesday. That left China with 7.9 trillion yuan in new local-currency loans for all of 2010, more than the government's target ...
2011-1-13 PetroChina, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PetroChina International Company Limited, has entered into a framework agreement with INEOS to form a partnership in new trading and refining joint ventures related to the refining operations in Grangemouth (Scotland) and ...
2011-1-17 China will increase the flexibility of the yuan exchange rate and further push forward the opening-up of its financial markets, a senior central bank official said Friday. China will continue the reform of the yuan exchange rate mechanism and keep the rate basically ...
2011-1-20 BEIJING - China should strengthen its trade-remedy mechanism as part of an effort to meet the challenges brought by developed countries, as trade protectionism is gaining ground in a global market still suffering economic turmoil, experts said. "Because China has been a ...
2011-1-18 HOUSTON - Chinese and US businesses Monday signed six agreements worth of $600 million in Texas, one day ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the United States. The agreements were signed during a visit to Texas by the Chinese business delegation led by ...
2011-2-12 Sixty-seven percent of companies in the eastern province of Jiangsu expect to have difficulty recruiting new workers this spring, a survey showed Thursday. This highlights worsening labor shortages in the rich coastal regions as China's economy continues to boom, ...
2011-2-11 Sixty-seven percent of companies in the eastern province of Jiangsu expect to have difficulty recruiting new workers this spring, a survey showed Thursday. This highlights worsening labor shortages in the rich coastal regions as China's economy continues to boom, ...
2011-2-10 The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release January's economic statistics around Feb 15. Analysts predicted China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, will have a year-on-year increase of over 5 percent, Securities Daily reported Thursday. ...
2011-1-31 YIWU, Zhejiang - The world's largest wholesale market for small products in east China's Yiwu city is slipping into a holiday lull as traders go home for the Lunar New Year after a year of good business. The noise of bargaining that characterizes the 4-million-square...
2011-1-30 DAVOS, Switzerland - All nations have an obligation to green economic recovery, said climate experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos this week, Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday. This is the most important new norm the world should ...
2011-1-29 BOSTON, the United States -- China can deal with inflation and still manage a rapid economic growth, said Olivier Blanchard, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "The inflation (in China) is controllable," Blanchard told Xinhua at an economic ...
2011-1-27 BEIJING -- China remained a major victim of trade protectionism during the past year, witnessing 64 trade disputes in this period, covering some $7 billion in value, China's Vice Commerce Minister, Zhong Shan, said Wednesday in Beijing. The country faced trade disputes ...
2011-2-26 BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The value of Chinese currency, the yuan, strengthened against U.S. dollars Friday. The central parity rate was set at 6.5757 per U.S. dollar on Friday, compared with 6.5795 per U.S. dollar the previous trading day, according to the China ...
2011-1-20 BEIJING -- China's customs revenue totaled 1.25 trillion yuan ($189.9 billion) in 2010, up 35.9 percent year-on-year, the country's customs authority said Wednesday. Chinese customs authorities collected 202.78 billion yuan in tariffs last year, up 36.7 percent year-on...
2011-1-21 BEIJING -- Returned overseas Chinese, Chinese residents abroad, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan funded the building of 56 primary schools in the Chinese mainland in 2010, announced the eighth plenum of Overseas Chinese Federation (OCF) Wednesday. The 56 ...
2011-2-22 BEIJING - 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, ...
2011-2-22 The amount of foreign direct investment(FDI) into China rose 23.4 percent in January year-on-year to $10.03 billion, said Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, Thursday. A total of 2,243 new foreign-invested enterprises were approved in January, an increase ...
2011-2-21 A cross-Strait economic cooperation committee will convene its first meeting on Feb. 22 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, said the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) here Friday. Jiang Zengwei, the ARATS special advisor, will be the mainland's ...
2011-2-21 The Greenwood International Trade Center, financed by China Chengtong Development Group, has began operation in Moscow, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Russia announced here on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, chamber chairperson Cai Guiru said about 70 ...
2011-2-21 The Chinese currency, or the yuan, on Thursday gained 55 basis points to 6.5800 per U.S. dollar from Wednesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. China's central bank announced on June 19 last year that it would further reform the yuan exchange ...
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