1. The completion of real estate investment The total investment in real estate development in the first five months of 2013 was 2,679.8 billion yuan, up by 20.6 percent year-on-year in nominal term, 0.5 percentage points lower than that ...
Tags: National Real Estate, Sales
From January to May 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 13,121.1 billion yuan, up by 20.4 percent year-on-year in nominal terms, the growth rate decreased 0.2 percentage point over that in the first ...
Tags: Fixed Assets, Investment
In May 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 9.2 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 0.1 percentage point ...
Tags: Industrial Production
AkzoNobel has supplied high performance coatings systems for half of the stadiums being used at this month's FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament in Brazil. Being staged from June 15 to 30, the three stadiums to feature the ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite went on sale ...
Tags: E-Reader, Amazon, web service
Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600166) has inked a heavy-duty truck contract with leading engine maker Cummins to jointly expand in the Brazilian commercial car market. Brazil is one of the major targeted markets of Beiqi Foton. The ...
Tags: Transportation, car
Beijing plans to increase the number of taxis that run on natural gas from the current 99 to 2,000 by the end of July in a trial project to promote the use of clean energy in public transportation. Beijing now has 2,000 vehicles powered ...
Tags: natural gas, clean energy
In retaliation for Europe setting a punitive tariff (11.8%) on China-made solar panels, China announced on June 5 plans to start an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against Europe-made wine imports. According to Reuters, this is ...
Tags: Wine Industry, Solar Trade Dispute
April March Increase Rate over Last Month Historical Average in April Manufacturing PMI 50.6 50.9 -0.3 55.4 Production Index 52.6 52.7 -0.1 ...
Lenovo Group Ltd on Wednesday unveiled smart TV products developed with Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp amid reports that the Chinese company is buying Sharp's TV plant in Nanjing. Beijing-based Lenovo is planning to sell 1 million ...
Tags: Lenovo, TV Products
On June 4, the EU finally decided to continue the antidumping (AD) duties on tungsten electrodes from China under EU HS Codes ex81019910 and ex85159000, including: The antidumping duty rate of 17% is imposed on Shandong Weldstone ...
Tags: Tungsten Electrodes, Electrodes
In May, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.8 percent, up by 0.2 percentage point month-on-month. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of large-sized enterprises was 51.1 percent, up by 0.1 percentage ...
Tags: PMI
A top Chinese official claims to have ‘mountains of data' showing evidence of hacking originating from the US. Huang Chengqing, director of the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China ...
Tags: Cyber Attacks, China, US
The Asian thermal coal market is cautiously awaiting a decision from China, wondering if Beijing is serious about imposing a ban on imports of low calorific value coal, according to a range of market players interviewed by Platts Monday at ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Import Ban
Tian Huiyu, former head of the Beijing branch of China Construction Bank, was formally appointed by the board meeting held on May 31 to be president of China Merchants Bank (CMB), still pending for the regulatory approval. On the same ...