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China started building 7.218 million units of low-income housing in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction of such houses accelerated significantly in July, the ministry said in a statement on its website...
China's property developers saw their inventories surge in the first half of this year as government measures to cool the market have started to bite, latest statistics show. Total inventories of 20 listed real estate developers that had released their semi-annual reports as of ...
Developers will have their licences revoked or ratings downgraded if they are found guilty of illegal practices, according to a draft regulation posted yesterday on China's State Council's website. The draft proposal, which will be open for public feedback till September 10, has ...
Major real estate developers reported strong business in the first seven months of this year as sales rebounded. Poly Real Estate Group Co said that it sold 3.876 million square meters between January and July, an annual rise of 24.4 percent, while the value of contracts jumped ...
One international-brand hotel is expected to open in China every four days during the next 18 months, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing markets for the hospitality industry. However, rising costs will present a challenge to the sector, according to the ...
Soluxe Hospitality Group, a Beijing-based international hotel operator, is seeking to export its management expertise. Its first such arrangement began on Aug 1 in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where it put the Angkor Palace Resort & Spa under its Grand Soluxe brand and assumed management ...
SOHO China has sealed its ninth project in Shanghai after it acquired a nearly-completed office building in Pudong New Area. The Beijing-based developer has agreed to pay 1.89 billion yuan (US$294 million) for the 24-story office tower except for its top floor. The tower, with a ...
China began levying anti-dumping duties on printing paper imports from Europe, the United States, and Japan on Wednesday, the Ministry of Commerce said. The measure came after a preliminary investigation launched by the ministry last December showed that companies in the three ...
Adidas Group China, a unit of Adidas AG, plans to expand aggressively into lower-tier cities as it seeks to compete with Chinese rivals. "We plan to open more than 2,500 additional stores in the next few years in lower-tier cities, expanding city coverage to more than 1,400 ...
The quality of Chinese products has greatly improved and consequently, the number of recalls of Chinese products has dropped significantly in the U.S. in recent years, according to a U.S. official. Richard W. O'Brien, director of International Programs and Intergovernmental ...
Sales of second-hand homes were stable in Shanghai last month, with six districts and Chongming County registering double-digit month-on-month growth. A total of 13,400 units, mainly houses, were sold across the city last month, up 1.9 percent from June, Century 21 China Real ...
Developers will be forced to set the price of housing before bidding for a piece of land in a pilot scheme being tested in the capital to curb soaring property prices, Beijing News reported. Under the new policy, the cost of the land will be set and the developer who offers to ...
China's banking regulator on Friday urged banks to back the country's public housing projects by offering loans and discounts on lending rates to alleviate financing difficulties. Banks should directly extend loans to government-invested public housing projects that have ...
Cheung Kong Holdings, the real estate company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said on Thursday its net profit in the first half of 2011 jumped 169 percent from a year ago to 33.259 billion HK dollars ( about 4.264 billion U.S. dollars). In the filing to the Hong ...
Stated-owned enterprises (SOEs) are stepping up the divestment of more than 100 billion yuan ($15.53 billion) worth of hotel assets to comply with government directives to focus on their core businesses. China Mobile Ltd, the largest mobile service provider in the country, handed ...
The growth of China's service sector eased for a second consecutive month in July but activities continued to expand, a survey showed Wednesday. The HSBC Business Activity Index, a seasonally adjusted gauge of the service sector across the country, posted 53.5 last month, down ...
Major real estate agencies in Shanghai reported their business improved in July, with low-end properties taking an ever-increasing share of the overall sales market. Shanghai Centaline Property Consultants Ltd, the largest estate chain in the city by transaction value, said ...
New home sales fell in July for the second month in Shanghai as weak sentiment continued to prevail while the average price gained slightly, boosted by more sales of luxury properties. Sales of new homes, excluding affordable housing, fell 2.5 percent to 770,000 square meters ...
The Alibaba Group said late Friday that the company and its major shareholders Yahoo! Inc. and Japan's Softbank Corp. have come to an agreement to settle a dispute over the status of Alibaba's popular online payment platform Alipay. The dispute arose in May when Alipay was ...
Taxes and profits created by China's tobacco industry continue to surge in spite of the central government's inclusion of a public smoking ban in the 12th Five-Year Plan and tobacco control measures taken by some local authorities. The industry paid 280.9 billion yuan (43.6 ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
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Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
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