It’s been a good few weeks for China’s economic decision-makers. Official data showed exports in August rose 7.2% from a year earlier, surpassing all forecasts. The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for ...
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In the first nine months of the current year, China's overall fixed asset investments totaled RMB 30.9208 trillion ($5.05 trillion), rising by a hefty 20.2 percent year on year, while the investment figure for September alone was up 1.28 ...
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The sales volume of all trucks (including tractors, engineering and cargo trucks) is 62000 units, up by 44.8% over last year (42,800 units), rising by 20.3% over last month (51,600 units). What's more exciting is the accumulative sales from ...
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China's business activity surged to a 17-month high in August, providing fresh evidence that the protracted economic slowdown in China may be bottoming out. Industrial production gained 10.4 percent from a year earlier, picking up from ...
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China's coal output and sales both declined in the first seven months of 2013, statistics from the China National Coal Association (CNCA) showed on Monday. The country's coal output in the Jan.-July period stood at 2.13 billion tonnes, ...
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In the next stage, Baosteel Co., Ltd will focus on boosting Zhanjiang Steel construction and key projects such as 3 blast furnaces overhaul,etc. as well as technical renovation project, compiling 2014 plan for fixed asset investment, ...
China's economy performed better than expected in July with inflation stable and industrial production strengthened. China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, grew 2.7 percent from a year earlier in July, with retail ...
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In the January-July period of this year, China's total fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 22.1722 trillion ($3.6 trillion), up 20.1 percent year on year, the same as the year-on-year growth recorded in ...
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Bank of Communications (BOCOM), China's leading commercial bank, released its projections on Monday for China's economy in the second half of 2013, predicting gross domestic product growth of around 7.5 percent by the end of the year. ...
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China's gross domestic product growth slowed to 7.5 percent in the second quarter of 2013, down from 7.7 percent during the first quarter, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. Growth in the first half of the ...
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THE stockmarket extended weekly losses to 3.8 per cent as materials dragged the benchmark to a fresh low since January, with investors sitting on their hands ahead of crucial US jobs data that could heighten calls for an early tapering of ...
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In the January-April period of this year, China's total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 9.1319 trillion ($1.47 trillion), up 20.6 percent year on year, according to the figures released by China's ...
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According to the data from National Bureau of Statistics, China's industrial output expanded at a faster rate in April to 9.3 percent year-on-year, up from 8.9 percent in March. Month-on-month growth in April, which reached 0.87 percent, ...
China's gross domestic product (GDP) indicated a year-on-year increase of 7.7 percent to RMB 11.8855 trillion ($1.9 trillion) in the first quarter of this year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The 7.7 percent ...
The sharemarket was hammered yesterday after Chinese economic data missed market expectations, adding to pressure from a slump in commodity prices that followed the release of disappointing US retail sales and consumer confidence data on ...
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