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China will release its first domestic trade and logistic plan for the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) and set a target for total retail sales to reach 30 trillion yuan ($4.63 trillion) by 2015, Economic Information Daily reported Thursday. The plan will position logistics as the ...
Rents for retail shops on Nanjing Road W. in Shanghai are the 29th-most expensive in the world, a global real estate service provider said yesterday. Annual rents for retail shops on the downtown street rose nearly 24 percent year on year to US$325.91 per square foot as of March. ...
French dairy giant Lactalis has won approval from European Union (EU) antitrust regulator to buy Italian rival Parmalat, a deal which would create the world's largest dairy producer. The European Commission said in a statement on Tuesday that the takeover would not significantly ...
China is expected to overtake Germany this year to become the world's third-largest entertainment and media market with spending hitting $96 billion, according to a report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Tuesday. The country's overall spend on entertainment and media ...
Foreign investors recorded the biggest increase among the various financing channels for Chinese property developers in the first five months of this year as they bet on better investment opportunities amid the country's tightening real estate policies. The foreign capital used ...
Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Rolls Royce cars are frequent sights on Shanghai streets. Opulent shopping malls in the city's center are home to many exclusive fashion brands, such as LV, Prada and Ferragamo. Now the latest addition to these symbols of prosperity are high-end supermarket...
Shopping malls, supermarkets and other retail businesses are encouraged to set up service posts inside their business locations to facilitate the settlement of disputes with consumers, China's industry and commerce regulator said. The State Administration of Industry and Commerce ...
The Hong Kong government sold a luxury site near the downtown on Thursday, setting a record of the second highest price in the city's land auction history, though quite below former market estimates. The 10,500-square-meter site, locating on Borrett Road, attracted five ...
Shenzhen-listed Wuliangye Yibin Co faces possibly the biggest ever civil compensation lawsuit filed by investors in the history of the Chinese mainland stock market following a 600,000 yuan (US$92,593) fine imposed by China's top securities supervisor for illegal information ...
Chinese bankcard holders trimmed their non-essential spending in May due to rising food prices caused by a drought that ravaged central and eastern China, an industry index showed on Thursday. The bankcard consumer confidence index dipped to 86.11 in May, down 0.28 point from a ...
China's welfare lottery sales hit 50.16 billion yuan (7.74 billion U.S. dollars) as of June 5 this year, up 30.61 percent year-on-year, the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center said on Thursday. The center said that this year's welfare lottery sales are expected to ...
China is expected to replace Japan as the world's top consumer of luxury goods by 2012 due to its growing demand and the declining consumption in Japan, the World Luxury Association (WLA) said Thursday. The luxury goods sales value in the Chinese market, excluding private jets, ...
Media reports that the prices of new homes in major Chinese cities are plummeting at double-digit rates amount to nothing more than bunkum and wishful thinking. Admittedly, shrinking sales of new apartments can be observed in most Chinese cities nowadays. But this is just a ...
China's central bank on Wednesday said the media report that some "central bank researcher" forecast the cancellation of the home purchase limit within two years was factually incorrect. The report was carried by Wednesday's Oriental Morning Post, a Shanghai-based newspaper, ...
Shanghai's new home sales rose to the highest in four months last week while the average price was little changed. Sales of new homes, excluding those built under the city's affordable housing programs, jumped more than 27 percent to 238,500 square meters during the seven-day ...
Exaggerated advertising claims for high-end properties targeting the super rich in China have come under widespread criticism for encouraging people to flaunt their wealth and for deliberately using misleading language. Property advertisements boasting of a luxurious and refined ...
China will find it difficult to achieve its goal of building 10 million government-subsidized residences this year since most of the planned projects have not started yet, analysts said. In May, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development began requiring local authorities ...
New-home prices plummeted by more than 20 percent year-on-year in the capital city in May, and analysts said other cities will follow the trend in the second half of this year. In Beijing, the average price of a newly constructed unit dropped to 23,467 yuan ($3,400) a square ...
EBay Inc's PayPal online payment system will end a partnership with Alibaba Group's Aliexpress.com beginning Aug 3, Shanghai Securities News reported Tuesday. Aliexpress.com, an international wholesale platform for China's domestic vendors to supply small orders to foreign buyers...
A major drug maker in Northeast China stands accused of seriously polluting its environs and of violating regulations that set limits on discharges of pollutants, CCTV, the State broadcaster, reported on Sunday. The report said the pharmaceutical factory has not done enough since ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's leading group for overall reform ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The snow-covered Swiss town of ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
Super car club in commercial drive
Super car club in commercial drive
On the night of Nov 11, more than 150 super cars were driven into the ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
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Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...