Chinese officials will undergo traditional Chinese culture education since in September through textbooks to enhance their skills, the Chinese Academy of Governance said Monday. Observers said that the textbooks will complement China's ...
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China's State Council has given approval for Hangzhou, an e-commerce hub, to set up the country's first cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, according to a statement released on Thursday. Hangzhou, capital city of East China's ...
China's $40 billion Silk Road Fund will be operated under a market-oriented approach and the projects it plans to invest in will not be limited to countries along the "One Belt, One Road" route, the fund's chairperson said on Thursday. ...
China's auto industry saw total sales drop by 0.22 percent to 1.59 million units in February, the first year-on-year drop in two years, data from an industry association showed Tuesday. Sales of passenger cars increased 6.42 percent ...
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Beijing-based Xiaomi Inc has set a more ambitious goal for smartphone sales in 2015, the company's founder and CEO revealed on Friday. Xiaomi is expected to sell between 80 million and 100 million smartphones for the whole of 2015, Lei ...
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China will accelerate price reform this year in sectors such as electric power, head of the country's top price regulator said Thursday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will further strengthen its efforts on price ...
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A key Chinese policy document released over the weekend has revealed that the country has stepped up reforms and innovation to hasten agricultural modernisation in the year 2015. Dubbed, the "No.1 Central Document," it highlights five ...
A 1,200-kilometer highway that links two of China's biggest cities is being equipped with a charging system for electric vehicles, a big sign of improvement in the development of such facilities. Despite a number of measures taken by the ...
China plans to levy a resources tax on coal based on sales value instead of production volume, as well as scrapping arbitrary levies on coal miners starting from December 1, taxation and fiscal authorities said over the weekend. ...
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With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
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E-commerce took off in the steel sector in 2013 as the ailing industry competes to cut costs, Dong Baoqing, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a -forum in Shanghai on Sa-turday. ...
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China's resource tax reform plan for the coal industry has already been submitted to the State Council and might possibly be carried out as early as January 1, 2014, a source was quoted by a financial information portal as saying Thursday. ...
China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
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Spanish clothing and accessory retailing giant Zara acknowledged quality problems in its products found in a sample inspection after a Beijing watchdog group blasted the company for fudging the issue. Referring to test results on its Zara ...
The Shanghai benchmark copper contract for delivery in February declined by 0.78 percent on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) Friday compared to Thursday, ending at 51,160 yuan ($8,429.59) per ton. However, it still climbed by 0.49 ...
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