The steel stock in 29 major cities across the country hit a four-year low after the Spring Festival holidays, news portal yicai.com reported Wednesday, citing data from the Beijing Lange Steel Information Research Center. The total ...
Tags: Steel Stock, Chemicals
A new natural gas discovery in southeast Sichuan province - the single biggest ever - could ease domestic shortages in as little as a year and give China a stronger hand in energy negotiations with Russia, according to some experts. China ...
Tags: natural gas, domestic shortages
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) Friday approved anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China, paving the way for the Department of Commerce to set preliminary duties in ...
After a continuous decline in 2013, sales of luxury goods have shown no signs of rebounding in China in the beginning of 2014, after a tightened campaign against corruption, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Feb. 12. Many luxury brands ...
Tags: Luxury Goods, Handbags, Jewels
BEIJING-A preliminary ruling by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday said solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union(EU)has been dumped in the Chinese market. Solar-grade polysilicon from the EU was subsidized and as a ...
Tags: Eu Polysilicon, Polysilicon, solar cells, solar
The US Commerce Department said Thursday that it has launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigations over imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China. The investigations are in response to a petition ...
Tags: photovoltaic products, Mineral
Beijing will begin construction on 16 new water reclamation plants this year to ease the thirsty capital with a stable "second water source," said water authorities on Saturday. In addition to the 16 projects, Beijing will complete ...
China's apparent demand for gas in December rose 14.1% year on year to a record high of 16.26 billion cu m, according to Platts calculations of recently released government data. China does not release consumption data on gas. Platts ...
Tags: natural gas, gas demand
In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing founded a firm called New Technology Developer Inc. Thirty years later, the tech ...
Tags: Lenovo, Global Ambitions
A world-wide consultation on street lighting has been launched by The Climate Group and Philips. Launched at the Future of Urban Development session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, it aims to find out more about the ...
Tags: LED, EU-wide, Climate Group
A few Chinese thermal coal buyers were reportedly concluding deals for March-delivered imported shipments, even as most of them were getting ready to wind up for the upcoming holidays, sources said Monday. A mini-Capesize cargo of ...
BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- China will see a wider shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, a research report warned on Thursday. The supply gap will be up to 9.5 million tonnes in 2014, said a report by the economics and technology ...
Tags: PX, Sinopec, Chemical, environment
British luxury brand Burberry made a commitment to eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 1 January 2020. Burberry’s move comes after two weeks of people powered campaigning on the brand’s social ...
Tags: Burberry, Fashion, luxury sector, environment
United Dairy Power, an Australian milk supplier, is in talks with Origo Partners, a Beijing-based private equity firm, over a sale of the company for about $70m. Established in 1999, United Dairy operates two factories at Jervois and ...
Tags: Dairy, milk supplier
Nearly 180 yarn and fibre exhibitors will participate at the Yarn Expo Pavilion, a designated fibre and yarn exhibition area within Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2014 from 3 to 5 March 2014. The fast growing ...