After more than doubling its strategic oil reserves since last year, China may apply the brakes to its buying spree as storage availability is expected to be limited, while a climate of depressed prices will reduce any urgency to snap up ...
Tags: Oil Reserve, crude, oil price
There were over 900 expats participating in the Beijing fair that just concluded last Saturday. [Photo/SAFEA] "Candidates have to be native speakers, with at least two years' teaching experience. And a TEFL certificate is a must," said ...
Tags: Unseasoned Expats, Finding Jobs, China
China's crude oil imports rose 9.4% on year to 26.35 million mt in October, or 6.23 million b/d, preliminary data released by the General Administration of Customs Sunday showed. The October imports were 8.8% lower from September's 6.829 ...
Tags: Crude Oil, crude exports
China will adjust its income distribution system and narrow the income gap in the next five years, a document from the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Tuesday. China's aims to "significantly" increase the wages of the low-income ...
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has worked with the General Administration of Customs, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to entrust the Academy of Mathematics and System Science, ...
Tags: bilateral trade, global value chains, trade in value added
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
2015 China International Electronic Commerce Expo (hereinafter referred to as the Electronic Commerce Expo) opened at Yiwu International Expo Center of Zhejiang province on April 11. Those who attended the opening ceremony are the Vice ...
China's economy posted a 6.9-percent growth year on year in the third quarter of 2015, lower than 7 percent in the first half of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday. In the first three quarters of the ...
Tags: China's GDP, interest rate
China's value-added industrial output was down in September, partly due to a slowdown in the country's mining and energy sectors, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. China's value-added industrial output ...
Tags: Industrial Output, overcapacity
China has adopted International Monetary Fund rules aimed at helping to improve the transparency, reliability and international comparability of the country's statistics. The move, announced on Thursday, is being viewed by Beijing-based ...
Tags: IMF, Economic Statistics
China's slowing power consumption and falling railway freight are signs of progress in economic restructuring, rather than evidence of failing industry, the statistics chief said on Thursday. Power use and rail freight are two major ...
Tags: power consumption, railway freight
Business activity in China's non-manufacturing sector expanded in August with slightly slowed pace from June and July, official data showed on Tuesday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector fell to 53.4 in ...
Tags: PMI, non-manufacturing sector
China's refinery throughput rose 4.3% year on year to 43.54 million mt or an average 10.30 million b/d in July, preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. The July rate was down slightly from 10.59 million ...
Tags: Refinery, oil demand
Housewives compare prices every day, including Zhang Ming, a 60-year-old retired woman who frequents a supermarket in Beijing's Fengtai district. On Sunday morning, she spent 45 yuan ($7.30) on 1 kg of pork fillet. "It's amazing ...
Tags: Pork, vegetables
China's producer prices continued to fall in July, pointing to looming deflation risk, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Sunday. The producer price index (PPI), a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, ...
Tags: PPI, PPI contraction