2014 marked the first year of the China-Germany Economic Adviser Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council) to operate officially since its establishment. The Council focused on such five core tasks as offering advice and suggestions ...
Tags: China-Germany Trade and Economic Cooperation, enterprises
To reach the goal announced by Premier Li Keqiang in August 2011 that the mainland should make efforts to realize basic liberalization of trade in services with Hong Kong through CEPA by the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and approved ...
Since 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented Vice Premier Wang Yang’s important instructions on the symposium when he inspected e-commerce in Beijing, and taking promoting the sustainable and healthy development of ...
Tags: e-commerce, Optimizing Environment, Promoting Application
Under the background that China’s economy entered into the new normal, new technologies, commercial formats and business modes in the service outsourcing industry sprung up, the role of innovation in development was even more ...
Tags: service outsourcing industry, Belt and Road Initiatives, foreign trade
In April 2014, the Ministry of Commerce integrated some of the business functions of the former Bureau of Fair Trade and the former Bureau of Industrial Damage Investigation and officially established the Bureau of Trade Remedy and ...
In 2014, the anti-monopoly work attracted extensive attention at home and abroad and became a hot social topic. The Ministry of Commerce carried out the anti-monopoly investigation of concentration of undertakings according to law, paid ...
Tags: anti-monopoly work, Market Order with Fair Competition
In 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening Rural Reform and Speeding up Agricultural Modernization, integrated and took advantages of ...
In 2014, MOFCOM made active efforts to perfect the support policies system on trade in services, build a market environment of fair competition and raise trade in services into a new step. In 2014, China’s trade in services maintained ...
Tags: trade in services, bilateral cooperation, service outsourcing industry
Mark Roush assumes the office of President of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), the international leader in lighting education, standards, publications and professional development. Roush succeedes Paul Mercier. ...
Tags: lights, lighting, Illuminating Engineering
Australia based private equity investment firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has agreed to acquire Kerry Pinnacle, the Australian subsidiary of British baked goods firm Kerry Group. Reuters reported citing a person with knowledge of ...
Tags: baked goods, Kerry Group
Amedica Corp. has laid off 25 employees, representing approximately 28% of its workforce. The move was part of a “comprehensive business review” that also includes deep cuts to corporate overhead and operational costs. The ...
New Zealand’s Blue Sky Meats has acquired Gore-based Clover Export in a bid to offer better services to its customers. With this acquisition, Blue Sky Meats can offer processing capacity in beef and venison. It will also help the ...
Tags: Blue Sky Meats, Agriculture
Belgian brewing major Anheuser-Busch InBev is reducing its workforce and consolidating its sales division in the US, citing slump in sales volume. The move will affect employees from various divisions such as marketing and procurement, ...
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. Frontiers, a manufacturing company that began at the University of ...
Tags: Frontiers, Expand, Electrical
Some companies have proven they can reinvent themselves, remaining current and agile despite supply chain disruptions. This is the case of Nokia Corp, a Finnish company founded in 1865 as a paper mill. The company’s evolution offers a ...
Tags: Nokia, Supply Chain