China is the world's largest producer and exporter of rare-earths. These are elements which are critical to the manufacturing of high-tech products, including smartphones, wind turbines and car batteries, among other things. However, ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
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China's economy is going through a series of historic transitions, and recent short-term market volatility will prove temporary, experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 said on Thursday. The Chinese government ...
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Foreign investment in China reached a record 126 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, according to new official data. In the first 11 months of the year, China took in 114 billion U.S. dollars in non-financial investment, up 7.9 percent year on ...
Four more Chinese independent teapot refineries, with a total capacity of 15.6 million mt/year, have joined others in applying to the National Development and Reform Commission to process around 14.47 million mt/year of imported crudes, the ...
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China's top economic planner unveiled goals Wednesday on cutting PM2.5, unhealthy particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns, which is the main pollutant in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. An official of the Department ...
It's being reported the Chinese government is setting up a 30-billion-yuan fund to help eliminate industrial overcapacity and reconstruct so-called "zombie companies". The money is going to compensate the employees of the "zombie ...
Tags: Special Fund, Zombie Companies
The Chinese government's leading think-tank has released a new study downplaying concerns about the level of debt being held by local governments, suggesting that more spending needs to take place to cope with social issues. On the heels ...
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In the Chinese government's ongoing fight to try to clean up this country's air, a new focus is being being put on small-scale companies in an effort to get them onboard with reducing emissions. Over the past few years, the central ...
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The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
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U.S.-based General Electric has won a contract to supply turbines to the Wudongde hydropower plant located in southwest China. The company will provide six turbine-generator sets and related equipment, accounting for half of the project's ...
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On Christmas Eve, U.S. embassy in China issued security warnings for Westerners in Beijing's Sanlitun area, a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district. Thanks to special forces dispatched by the Chinese government, no incidents ...
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China on Thursday donated mine clearance equipment to Cambodia and start-up funds to the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center. The 500,000-U.S. dollar donation included office equipment worth about 250,000 dollars to Cambodia, and start-up ...
The Chinese government is taking absolutely adequate measures to handle slowing economic growth and an increase of certain imbalances, a leading Russian expert has said, commenting on China's key economic meeting held last weekend. "What ...
The Chinese government is calling on the Philippines to give up any illusions of sovereignty over islands claimed by China in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spoksperson Hong Lei commented following the release of a court transcript ...
Tags: South China Sea, Arbitration