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The Importance Of Outsourcing To China
Mar 11, 2019Often times companies, institutions and organizations either become swamped with work or do not possess the resources to carry out the work efficiently to their taste. Whatever the reason for branching out, outsourcing is mostly a good ...
Tags: Outsourcing, clothing
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Ministry of Commerce: The Total Retail Sales up 9% in 2018
Mar 6, 2019Qiankeming, the deputy minister of commerce claimed in the press that the total retail sales of social consumer goods maintained steady and relatively fast growth in 2018. The total sales reached RMB 38.1 trillion, up 9%. Data shows that ...
Tags: retail sales
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Taiwan's Export Orders Estimated to See 18th Consecutive Month of Growth in January
Mar 6, 2018On the continuously expanding global economy, Taiwan's overall export orders received in January are expected to witness the 18th consecutive month of growth and show a double-digit rate in terms of value. After finishing its survey on ...
Tags: ICT industries, electronic
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China's Service Trade Booms Along Belt and Road
May 3, 2017The Belt and Road Initiative gave a fresh boost to Hainan Airlines. It has been famous for six consecutive years with its successful combination of Chinese culture, Oriental service concept and modern aviation industry. In recent years ...
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CPI Sees Its Slowest Pace in 2 Years
Mar 10, 2017China's consumer price index, a key gauge of retail inflation, rose 0.8 percent last month, the slowest growth in two years, due to the distortion caused by the timing of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Analysts said the low consumer ...
Tags: retail inflation, vegetables, food prices
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China's Central SOEs Profits up 29%
Mar 10, 2017China's centrally administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) performed well in the first two months of 2017 thanks to a stabilizing economy and better management, the state assets regulator said Thursday. Combined profits of China's ...
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Industrial SOEs See Healthy Gains in 2016
Mar 3, 2017China's State-owned industrial enterprises, which account for the majority of China's SOEs, ended two years of losses in 2016 and reaped good returns on the back of structural optimization. In 2016, the profits of State-owned industrial ...
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China's Growth Enterprises Post Strong Profit Rise
Mar 2, 2017Enterprises listed on China's NASDAQ-style board witnessed robust net profit growth in 2016, evidence of ongoing industrial upgrading and economic restructuring. Combined business revenue of 603 growth enterprises listed on the board ...
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Eurozone Inflation Hits Four-Year High in February
Mar 2, 2017Inflation across the 19-country euro area hit a four-year high of 2.0 percent in February thanks to soaring prices of energy, said Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union (EU) on Thursday. The latest inflation figure is ...
Tags: Eurozone Inflation, inflation
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Gold Futures Fall on Traders' Technical Selling
Mar 1, 2017Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell on Tuesday as technical elements put pressure on the precious metal. The most active gold contract for April delivery fell 4.9 U.S. dollars, or 0.39 percent, to ...
Tags: Gold futures, precious metal
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China in New Effort to Tackle Shadow Banking
Feb 24, 2017China's central bank has drafted new rules to tackle risks from shadow banking, in a tacit acknowledgment that a host of measures in recent years to control off balance sheet credit have failed to control its risks, the Financial Times ...
Tags: Shadow Banking, balance sheet
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China Credit Tightening Ignored by Small Banks
Feb 24, 2017Beijing's "cautious tightening signals" for credit are largely being ignored by banks and at the local level, where attention is focused on maintaining steady economic growth, especially with key Communist Party meetings looming this year, ...
Tags: emerging markets
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China's Latest Five-Year Plan Could Be Its Last
Feb 24, 2017The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
Tags: five-year plan, political economy
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DGBAS Projects Taiwan's GDP at 1.92 Percent for 2017, a 3-Year Zenith
Feb 22, 2017DGBAS reports Taiwan’s 2017 GDP growth forecast to stand at a three-year high of 1.92 percent, with annual export to show the strongest increase of 8.5 percent in the past six years (photo courtesy of UDN.com). In light of the ...
Tags: GDP growth
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China Opens More Economy Areas for Foreign Capital
Feb 6, 2017China's moves to further ease foreign investment policies will open doors in some monopoly sectors this year while prohibiting local governments from curbing foreign companies, experts said. Their comments came after the State Council ...
