Shanghai's GDP grew at the same pace as the country with economic growth of 6.9 percent recorded in 2015, the local statistics bureau announced Wednesday. According to preliminary calculations, Shanghai's GDP stood at about 2.5 trillion ...
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China's economy is going through a series of historic transitions, and recent short-term market volatility will prove temporary, experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 said on Thursday. The Chinese government ...
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China will set up more cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, the State Council announced Wednesday. The zones will attract businesses, help create jobs and nurture new business models to boost foreign trade and stimulate the economy, ...
Foreign investment in China reached a record 126 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, according to new official data. In the first 11 months of the year, China took in 114 billion U.S. dollars in non-financial investment, up 7.9 percent year on ...
China's central bank on Tuesday pumped the biggest amount of funds since September into the financial system in open market operations in an effort to ease a liquidity strain. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) conducted seven-day reverse ...
China will speed up integrative development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural regions to increase farmer income and modernize agriculture, according to a central government guideline. China will accelerate ...
The supply-side structural reform to improve all-factor productivity will help China gather future growth steam, according to the country's finance minister. Despite heavy downward economic pressure, the Chinese economy is still resilient ...
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Asia's largest underground train station began to operate on Wednesday in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, which neighbors Hong Kong. The Futian Station is second only in size to the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The ...
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In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
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It's being reported the Chinese government is setting up a 30-billion-yuan fund to help eliminate industrial overcapacity and reconstruct so-called "zombie companies". The money is going to compensate the employees of the "zombie ...
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China on Wednesday lowered its current account surplus for the third quarter and revised its estimate for the capital and financial account from a deficit to a surplus. The third-quarter surplus under the current account was cut to 60.3 ...
China refuted recent U.S. comments warning Europe against granting China market economy status on Wednesday, saying China has been living up to its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang ...
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China's central bank has said it is planning to upgrade its financial risk assessment framework which will be launched next year, in a bid to ward off financial risks. The capital adequacy ratio, a measure of an institution's ability to ...
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Economists and insiders are calling for more effective goverment supervision as a year of wild swings in China's stock market is coming to an end. China fought an unprecedented and costly war in 2015 to contain wide stock market ...
China's central bank released detailed regulations of online payment services by non-bank institutions on Monday in the latest effort to contain possible risks in the booming Internet finance industry. The new rules require real-name ...
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