Profits of China's major industrial firms fell 1.4 percent year on year in November, narrowing from a 4.6-percent decline posted in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Sunday. Profits at industrial companies with ...
Tags: Industrial Profit, Decline
China's online retail volume is expected to outperform the rest of the world by reaching four trillion yuan (618 billion U.S.dollars) this year, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Sunday. China has attained key targets outlined by the ...
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Housing prices in China are expected to grow steadily in 2016, while divergence between bigger and smaller cities will continue, according to a property research organization. Government policy has perhaps helped to ease the housing glut ...
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China has announced it is setting up a new Strategic Emerging Industry Board under the Shanghai stock exchange. The new board is aimed at the country's domestic high-growth and innovative companies. The China Securities Regulatory ...
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Chinese lawmakers on Sunday approved a State Council proposal for stock listing reform at the end of a bimonthly legislative session which began Monday in Beijing. The decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee will ...
Tags: Stock Listing, Registration-based
Construction of the second unit of a pilot nuclear power project began in Fuqing, southeast China's Fujian Province on Tuesday. The project will use the domestically-developed third generation reactor Hualong One technology. Hualong One ...
China is going to be the third-largest contributor to UN regular budget 2016-2018, with its assessed contribution accounting for 7.9 percent, said a senior Chinese diplomat Wednesday. The Chinese contribution to the total UN membership ...
Over 50 people were killed in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's northern province of Samangan on Thursday, police said. "A long-distance bus collided with an oil truck on a bridge at around evening. The bus plunged into ...
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Syria has said it's ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help the country form a national unity government. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem made the statement on Thursday during a visit to ...
China and Nepal pledged to expand cooperation, as Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with visiting Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa Thursday in Beijing. China is willing to expand cooperation in connectivity, energy, ...
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Proposals raised by deputies of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the annual parliamentary session in March have been handled well, said the NPC Standing Committee Thursday. According to a report delivered to the NPC Standing ...
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A total of 32,041 redundant leader posts have been eliminated in the past three years, according to the top personnel department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Thursday. The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee ...
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Chinese legislators on Thursday urged intensified efforts to keep local government debt under control, warning against potential default in the future. Legislators made the comments when attending a panel discussion of the ongoing ...
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A draft amendment to the population and family planning law is being discussed by the top legislature. Along with the universal two-child policy, the amendment covers issues including illegal surrogacy and the cancellation of extended ...
Tags: Surrogacy, Late Marriage
A new Chinese-made space-based telescope tasked with searching for signs of "dark matter" has formally begun its mission, beaming its first set of data to ground stations on Thursday. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, ...
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