Chinese leaders and economists have said China must up its game to boost export growth against the backdrop of an anemic global economic recovery. SIX-PERCENT GROWTH Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Saturday that China is confident ...
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China unveiled its economic growth target for 2015 Thursday, putting an end to months of speculation.[Special coverage] The target, as expected, was lowered to "around 7 percent," a level not seen since 2004 and 0.5 percentage points ...
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China's top economic planner said Thursday that Hong Kong was expected to play a bigger role in promoting the country's development. Xu Shaoshi, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference ...
Chinese mainland stocks declined as the country's leader hints at an economic 11-year-low growth target. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.95 percent or 31.06 points to 3,248.48 points on Thursday. The Shenzhen Component ...
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The Chinese economy is confronted with more difficulties than anticipated in 2014, but it has scored more achievements than expected, said Xu Shaoshi, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top ...
China's confidence in achieving its economic growth rate of around 7 percent this year is not weakened despite rising downward pressure, a senior official said Thursday. The economic development has entered "new normal" and economic ...
Activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, a private survey showed just a few days after the central bank cut interest rates to stimulate the world's ...
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The China Innovation Index (CII), which measures innovation capability, rose 3.1 percent to 152.8 in 2013, the statistics authority said Monday. The first CII results were released in April 2013 by a National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
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Dramatic monetary policies in Europe have lots of potential to create a new surge of hot money inflow into China, says Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon. Hot money is speculative money that flows ...
The Chinese economy is expected to grow 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to an estimate released by the State Information Center, a government think tank, on Monday. A steady slowdown is expected for the Chinese economy, ...
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China's economy is likely to grow at a medium-to-high rate under the "new normal", Economic Daily reported Justin Yifu Lin, a member of China's 12th CPPCC as saying on Monday. Under the "new normal", China has both the conditions and the ...
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HE Spring Festival holiday last week did not upset plans for the East China Fair which will open tomorrow as originally scheduled, although some small firms decided not to attend, the fair organizers said yesterday. The fair, the ...
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China's A shares raised altogether 724.9 billion yuan (118.19 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014, according to the country's securities watchdog. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said that 47.1 billion yuan was raised through ...
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China's "new normal" economy, although growing at a slower pace, actually added value last year as more jobs were created, inflation was under control, and trade rose, said a senior official at the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday. ...
China has invested 382 billion yuan (62.2 billion U.S. dollars) in northeast regions since the government announced an action plan to assist the area's sagging economy last August. The money has been used on 60 projects, two of which are ...
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