Chinese purified terephthalic acid producers BP and Hengli have deferred the startup of their new PTA plants to 2015 from the fourth quarter this year, amid negative PTA margins, sources close to the company said Friday. The startup of BP ...
Panzhihua Iron & Steel Group, or Pangang, in southwest China's Sichuan province produced 12.07 million mt of iron ore concentrate from its mines in the Panzhihua area of Sichuan last year, which was up 14.3% on 2012 and a record high for ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Concentrate
Soybean imports are likely to rise to a new high in the 2013-14 market year (September 2013 to August 2014) following a drop in domestic output and greater demand for animal feed and edible oil. Heilongjiang province in Northeast China, ...
Tags: Soybean Imports, Soybean Demand
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
Recently, good news came from the two major oil fields in Northwest China and Northeast China: the new generation BGT2 premium joint OCTG developed by Baosteel lately achieved successful downhole in both Jilin Oil Field and Talimu Oil ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, Oil Fields
China's Dalian Commodity Exchange on Friday launched the country's first iron ore futures with physical delivery, which ended the trading day with smooth performance. The May 2014 contract, the most actively traded of the day, rising 1.77 ...
Tags: Iron Ore Futures
China's environmental watchdog on Saturday publicized the names of 72 companies that have violated environmental protection regulations and says it plans to punish the offenders. The companies, including PetroChina's Hohhot Petrochemical ...
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the country's top securities regulator, announced that it has endorsed the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) to carry out egg futures trading. Futures trading will help stabilize egg prices by ...
Tags: Construction
In 2013, Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. (SDEC) achieves good results in promoting new products and wins wide acknowledgement in the engine industry. At the beginning of July, SDEC's first batch of 12L E series engines equipped to ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
China is said to be weighing a plan to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds. Sources said recently that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) planned to allow local governments to issue local treasury bonds, an effort to ease ...
Tags: local treasury bonds, economy
Leading Chinese insulin producer Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals is brought under the limelight due to a bribery scandal. People in the know disclosed in an interview on September 9 that it was established in Beijing in 1998 and as the sole ...
A forthcoming audit of overall government debt in China is expected to reveal the status quo of growing government debt and its potential risks amid the country's economic slowdown. The planned nationwide audit follows a previous one ...
Tags: Gov't Debt
As a country that pays great attention to courtesy, our cuisine culture is deep rooted in China's history. As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home or restaurant you will find that table manners are essential and the distinctive ...
Tags: Food Culture, cuisine culture
Poor weather at Qinhuangdao and other coal export ports in northeast China have impeded some coal shipments to power plants along the Asian country's coastline, but well-covered Chinese end users were refraining from panic buying in the ...
Tags: Qinhuangdao, coal shipments, coastline
Deyu Agriculture, a China-based producer of agricultural products, has formed a new subsidiary, Jinglong Agriculture Development, in order to extend its business coverage to Northeast China. The 99% owned subsidiary currently focuses on ...