A series of 14 peer reviewed research papers have found that plain cigarette packaging in Australia has been a success as it has reduced the appeal of smoking among adolescents and also prompted smokers to quit. The findings of the ...
China's cooling growth prospects are expected to shift the economic agenda away from the eurozone, although Greece remains firmly in the spotlight because of its precarious funding outlook. China is expected to provide further hints of ...
Tags: economy growth, economic reforms
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 1.4 percent year on year in February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The stronger-than-expected reading quickened from the 0.8-percent gain in ...
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China's producer price index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, declined a record 4.8 percent year on year in February amid weak domestic demand, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The ...
China will accelerate price reform this year in sectors such as electric power, head of the country's top price regulator said Thursday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will further strengthen its efforts on price ...
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Activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, a private survey showed just a few days after the central bank cut interest rates to stimulate the world's ...
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The China Innovation Index (CII), which measures innovation capability, rose 3.1 percent to 152.8 in 2013, the statistics authority said Monday. The first CII results were released in April 2013 by a National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ...
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China's "new normal" economy, although growing at a slower pace, actually added value last year as more jobs were created, inflation was under control, and trade rose, said a senior official at the National Bureau of Statistics yesterday. ...
The Chinese currency has seen sharp volatility against the US dollar this week as a strengthening dollar stokes worries of the yuan's depreciation. The yuan continued to decline against the dollar on Wednesday with its spot exchange rate ...
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China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
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President Xi Jinping unveiled his thinking about the Chinese economy, saying the world's second largest economy is seeing a "new normal" emerging. China's 2014 economic growth edged down to a 24-year low of 7.4% from 7.7% in 2013, ...
Tags: China's Economy, economic growth
China's total available crude supply significantly exceeded refinery throughput in December, suggesting 915,000 b/d of crude oil was added to storage during the month, although the total stockbuild during 2014 averaged just over 300,000 ...
China's 2014 economic growth edged down to a 24-year low of 7.4 percent from 7.7 percent in 2013, the first time that it missed the government's annual target in 16 years, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics released on ...
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, is estimated to grow by about 1.4 percent in December from a year earlier, the latest report from the Bank of Communications (BOC) said. The National Bureau of Statistics ...
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China's economy is likely to expand at a slower pace of 7 percent in 2015 and 7.3 percent this year, a government think tank said in a report on Monday. Due to factors such as overcapacity in some manufacturing industries, the country's GDP ...
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