The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.3 percent in March of the current year, up 0.1 percentage point compared to February, which is the first time the index has increased since November last year, ...
Tags: raw material, manufacturing sector
Asia’s increasing economic clout — backed by population growth and a burgeoning middle class — is forcing changes to the Western-led global corporate order. Late last year, the mayor of a city in suburban Belgrade, ...
Tags: Asia's Economy, World Order
Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Co. (Ansteel) announced its annual financial results for 2013, stating that it recorded an operating revenue of RMB 75.329 billion ($12.35 billion) for the year, compared to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
On March 10, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that it has completed issuance of two-year corporate bonds worth a total of RMB 3 billion ($490 million). Baogang had received approval ...
A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
Tags: Chinese economy, export data
IAF’s Matthijs Crietee delivered a speech at Dialog’s Textil Bekleidung’s (DTB) and MODINT’s biannual Sourcing Convention held March 6th, 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He explained the elements of the ‘2nd ...
Tags: Apparel Export, Textile, Clothes
China exported 4.8 million mt of finished steel in February this year, up 13.2 percent, while it exported 11.57 million mt of finished steel in the January-February period, rising by 26.3 percent, both year on year, according to data issued ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel Exports
In February this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 2.0 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 9. Meanwhile, in ...
Tags: consumer price index, PPI
In the January-February period of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to RMB 3.87 trillion ($632.35 billion), indicating a year-on-year rise of 0.9 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities. In the given ...
Tags: Foreign Trade
China's new energy vehicles run all the way in 2013. The statistics form the China association of automobile manufacturers showed that China's new energy automobile production 17533 vehicles in 2013, up by 39.7% over the previous year, pure ...
Tags: Energy Vehicle, car, Auto Parts, Transportation
A key gauge of China’s manufacturing activity fell again in February as companies are becoming increasingly cautious about future business conditions amid sluggish demand both at home and abroad. The official Purchasing ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing activity
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.2 percent in February of the current year, down 0.3 percentage points compared to January but remaining above 50 percent , according to China's National Bureau ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI, Mineral
The China association of automobile manufacturers announced, China's car production hit a high record in 2013, and topped the global first once again, also became the only one exceeding 20 million vehicles. There will be great changes in ...
Tags: Auto Production, Auto, Transportation, Auto Parts
China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has stated that the industrial value-added output of large-scale Chinese enterprises in 2014 is expected to increase by 9.5 percent year on year, slightly lower than the growth ...
Tags: Value-Added Output, Mineral