Price slumps in the global commodity market continued to allow China to spend less while importing more, helping China save on enormous import bills, latest customs data showed. In the first ten months of this year, China imported 252.6 ...
Tags: commodity market, crude oil
The Chinese government on Tuesday began to solicit public opinion on a catalogue of industries to guide foreign investment. The draft axes the number of sectors that limit foreign investment from 79 to 35 and cuts the number of items that ...
Tags: Chinese Investment, Foreign Funds
China's economic growth will moderate further in the next two years as domestic demand is weakened by the property downturn, UBS has forecast. "We forecast China's GDP growth to slow to 6.8 percent in 2015 and 6.5 percent in 2016. This ...
Tags: economic growth, domestic demand
The high level of government savings deposits could prove detrimental to long-term economic growth, even as concerns mount over ballooning local government debt in China, a report said on Wednesday. Total bank deposits held by government ...
China hopes APEC will play a coordinating role in establishing the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), a Chinese official said Tuesday. The country seeks implementation of an APEC information exchange for free trade areas to ...
Tags: Drafting, APEC Roadmap
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in October of the current year, down 0.3 percentage points compared to September, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing sector
According to the data provided by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), in September this year Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 851,051 units, decreasing by 22,693 units or ...
Tags: Auto Exports, automobile
In October this year, the average prices of new residential housing in 100 major cities in China decreased by 0.4 percent month on month to RMB 10,629 ($1,731.1) per square meter, indicating a month-on-month decline for the sixth ...
Tags: Residential Housing
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis generally remained steady but displayed signs of slipping amid persistent weakness in the physical buying interest, market sources said ...
According to a statement released by Argentina, China will China to open sorghum market to Argentina. It will create mpetition for the US farmers who have been the main beneficiaries so far of a surge in Chinese demand for the grain ...
In the January-September period of the current year, the aggregate gross profit of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 4.36522 trillion ($0.711 trillion), increasing by 7.9 percent year on year, according ...
The exports of garments and clothing accessories from India increased by 17.6 percent in the first six months of the ongoing fiscal year 2014-15 to touch US$ 8.3 billion, over the same period of the previous fiscal year, according to the ...
Xinchuang Li, deputy secretary general of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), has stated at China Mining 2014 held in Tianjin that China's demand for imported iron ore will indicate slower growth, but will remain strong. The CISA ...
Japan's government and central bank are counting on export growth to help the economy overcome April’s domestic-demand-dampening consumption tax hike. The latest figures show that despite a weak yen, overall shipments remain sluggish, ...
Tags: export growth
Speaking exclusively to Packaging News at the third European Bioeconomy Stakeholders’ Conference, Quentin Clark, head of sustainability and ethical sourcing at Waitrose, said the high-end grocery retailer wanted consumers and local ...
Tags: Recycling Packaging, Packaging