China's domestic spot prices for copper, aluminum and lead fell around 7% year on year in 2013 on weak demand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. Lead posted the largest drop, falling 7.4% year on year to ...
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In 2013, China's total crude steel output was 779 million mt, up 7.5 percent year on year, according to a report on the overall situation in Chinese industry in 2013 released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ...
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has stated that the industrial value-added output of large-scale Chinese enterprises in 2014 is expected to increase by 9.5 percent year on year, slightly lower than the growth ...
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China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
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E-commerce took off in the steel sector in 2013 as the ailing industry competes to cut costs, Dong Baoqing, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a -forum in Shanghai on Sa-turday. ...
Tags: Steel Firms, Mineral
On September 17, 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) releases the Notice on Continuing the Promotion of New-energy Vehicle (the Notice hereinafter) jointly issued by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of ...
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Good government policies can help propel an industry forward but bad ones can hinder development. Although China’s policies are aimed at developing the LED industry, the subsidies have gotten out of control recently, said LEDinside ...
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China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
Tags: steel enterprises, steel industry
China will impose a tiered power pricing system on aluminum smelters from Jan. 1 to cut overcapacity, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Monday. Power prices will stay unchanged for smelters that do not use more ...
The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
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There were 1.104 billion subscribers to mobile communication services in China as of the end of November 2012, growing by 0.80% on month and by 13.21% on year, and 220.49 million (19.97%) of them were 3G users, according to statistics ...
Tags: Mobile Phone, Consumer Electronics, mobile communication services
China is handing out new subsidies for buying ships to help its beleaguered shipbuilders. The central government will set aside "special funds" that give shippers subsidies of 1,500 yuan ($246.9) per gross ton -- a unit of measure for the ...
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With many Chinesecearning capability being squeezed by low technical content, appreciation of the renminbi and blind expansion, Chinese shipbuilders are looking to stay afloat by building more maritime engineering products. A recovery is ...
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Apple’s iPhone could be getting a step closer to being officially offered on China’s largest mobile network, after the nation’s government finally issued 4G licenses to operate LTE TDD networks in the country. ...
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on December 4 announced the release of TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) licenses to China Mobile, Chine Telecom and China United Network Communications (China Unicom). ...
Tags: TD-LTE Licenses, China Unicom