Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai. One Friday afternoon in September, Xing Zhenhua opened his guitar case and began singing in ...
A surge in interest in GMO-free or non-GMO products, and continuing growth in the free-from category, is driving consumer demand for cleaner labelling and greater transparency on packaging. The free-from category has been buoyed by ...
Tags: Packaging, non-GMO products
The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has triggered a new debate on traditional Chinese medicine, and reminds us that modern medical science depends on inspiration from every possible source. A Chinese scientist winning ...
Tags: Nobel Prize, medicine, TCM
One spot of the Great Wall, one of the world's most recognizable landmarks, recently accommodated a set built and abandoned by a film crew in May in Beijing, a local newspaper reported. According to the Legal Evening News, a film crew ...
Tags: Great Wall, Film Shooting, Landscape Harmed
Self-made school canteen certification logos on food and beverage packaging are misleading parents, according to consumer advocacy organisation, Choice. Products such as Paddle Pops, Tiny Teddies and Shapes are displaying “school ...
Tags: Food Industry, packaging
Nantianmen, or the Southern Heavenly Gate at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Obsessed with natural landscape in Zhangjiajie, China Photographers' Association member Shao Bailin has been there several times to capture the breathtaking ...
Tags: Zhangjiajie, National Forest Park
Constellium has introduced a new aluminium solution - Aeral - which will be used in the production of aerosol containers. The Aeral developed from a specific alloy employs the Drawn and Ironed (D&I) technology, which is currently used in ...
The 25th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade was successfully held in Chicago, the United States, on December 16-18, 2014. Consensus has been reached by China and the United States as follows: Export Control: The ministries ...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council has recently passed the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), bringing the Agreement into the WTO Agreement, and opened the protocol for ...
In 2014, a total of 23,778 foreign-funded enterprises were approved in China, up 4.4% year on year, with actually utilized FDI of 736.37 billion yuan (US$ 119.56 billion), up 1.7% year on year (excluding data of banking, securities and ...
Tags: FDI, service industry, steady growth
In 2014, the Ministry of Commerce sincerely implemented the spirit of the Third and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, strengthened supervision both in and after the process according to law, reorganized and ...
Tags: Market Order, Business Environment, Industrial management
Against the backdrop of a severe international investment environment, great difficulties and challenges from the downward pressure of the domestic economy, China’s overall absorption of FDI remained stable in 2014, with the quality ...
Tags: FDI, foreign investment, liberalization of trade in service
In 2014, the National Combating IPR infringement and Counterfeiting Office (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) strengthened overall coordination, organized specific campaigns on IPR infringement and counterfeiting ...
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 ...
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