Most Americans today still picture Shenzhen as the home of iPhone production, migrant workers, and a huge electronics component bazaar. Well, they’re not wrong. That Shenzhen is still here. However, the way people live, work, and ...
Tags: iPhone production, Huawei, 3D printers
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
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Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Co. (Hunan Valin Steel) has announced that in 2013 its net profit amounted to RMB 106 million ($17.26 million), compared to a net loss of RMB 3.254 billion in 2012. Valin ...
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Government incentives help focus efforts on power plant development Chinese solar panel makers are looking to invest in solar power farms to boost earnings after a drop in panel prices due to oversupply. Hit hard by trade disputes as ...
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Chinese health officials say H7N9 bird flu has killed 19 people in the country so far this year with the number of human infections up to 96. Even as health officials in the affected regions have gone on higher alert to fight the spread ...
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A team of Chinese experts have begun feasibility study from Monday to install solar power station in Nepal's administrative center, officials said. The Nepal government has shown willingness to light Singh durbar and its peripheral area ...
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Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin LY Steel Co. (LY Steel) has announced that it achieved sales revenues of RMB 28.33 billion ($4.6 billion) in 2013, with a net profit of RMB 272 million ($44.6 million) following the losses it ...
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Initial public offerings (IPOs) have reopened after a more than one year temporary break. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved five companies on December 30th which include one company to be listed on Shanghai’s ...
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Chinese scientists have cultivated a high-yield salt-resistant rice variety that boasts an output of six tons per hectare. In an experimental program, two professors from Hainan University and additional researchers from the Hunan ...
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Chinese firms make overseas acquisitions as domestic market becomes saturated Despite the economic slowdown and overcapacity issues, China's market for construction equipment will likely recover from lackluster growth, as major companies ...
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia continued to rise this week as suppliers lifted offer prices on deepening output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,050-2,090/mt FOB China ...
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Jiangsu province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin-Xigang Special Steel Co., a subsidiary of Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Group, has announced that its production and sales target of finished steel for 2014 is 800,000 mt, ...
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Despite of a depressed Chinese commercial vehicle market, Foton remains leading the industry ahead. It is estimated Foton will receive a rewarding year by over 660,000 units of production and sales. It is worthy of noticing that Foton, the ...
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Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) has announced that on December 19 it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hunan Province-based Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China. The review covered three Chinese producers/ exporters - ...