Chief executive officers have less confidence in growth prospects for their businesses amid China's economic restructuring, even as most of them continued to remain bullish on the size and strength of the Chinese economy, a survey said on ...
China will release the implementation plan for the Belt and Road initiatives when the 2015 Boao Forum for Asia opens at the end of the month in south China. Sources told Xinhua that the implementation plan will include a detailed list of ...
Chinese shares rose to the highest level in more than five years on Monday after Premier Li Keqiang said the country has a string of policy tools at the government's disposal to bolster economic growth. The benchmark Shanghai Composite ...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Chinese mainland jumped 17 percent year on year in the first two months of 2015, settling at 22.48 billion U.S. dollars, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Tuesday. The pace slowed from a 29.4 ...
Tags: China's FDI, service sector
China's cooling growth prospects are expected to shift the economic agenda away from the eurozone, although Greece remains firmly in the spotlight because of its precarious funding outlook. China is expected to provide further hints of ...
Tags: economy growth, economic reforms
A senior Chinese central bank official said Thursday that the country is "actively communicating" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the possibility of including Chinese currency yuan, or RMB, in the basket of the Special Drawing ...
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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 ...
Chongqing, as the only municipality in inland of China and a metropolitan area along the Yangtze River, serves an important role in building China's first inland free trade zone (FTZ), a top municipal official said. "According to the ...
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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. ...
With Chinese currency the yuan, also known as the renminbi, enjoying rising acceptance, banks and enterprises in the Gulf Arab region are seeking ways to catalyze the growing demand for conducting trade with the currency. "By the end of ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 1.4 percent year on year in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The stronger-than-expected reading quickened from the 0.8-percent gain in ...
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China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, declined a record 4.8 percent year on year in February amid weak domestic demand, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The ...
As China's financial environment has deteriorated, the performance of its financial leasing industry has been mixed. Financial leasing companies associated with banks have continued to receive adequate liquidity, especially because banks ...
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China's trade rebounded in February from the previous month's surprise contraction, but imports were subdued in another sign of continued weakness in the world's second-largest economy. Exports surged 48.9 percent in February from a year ...
Tags: Dipping Imports, February exports
Peer-to-peer lending, websites that allow individuals to borrow money from other individuals without going through banking middlemen, is facing its first serious government regulation as defaults undermine confidence in the online systems. ...