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CPI Sees Its Slowest Pace in 2 Years
Mar 10, 2017China's consumer price index, a key gauge of retail inflation, rose 0.8 percent last month, the slowest growth in two years, due to the distortion caused by the timing of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Analysts said the low consumer ...
Tags: retail inflation, vegetables, food prices
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China's Property Sector Grows 8.8% in Q3
Oct 21, 2016The property sector saw a year-on-year growth of 8.8 percent in the third quarter of this year, according to official data released on Thursday. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the GDP figures of different industries on ...
Tags: Property Sector
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RMB Records Weakening Streak Against USD
Oct 13, 2016The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened another 160 basis points to 6.7258 against the U.S. dollar Wednesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS). It was the weakest level ...
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How Should China Cope with US Interest Rate Rise?
Jun 7, 2016A May 25 Bloomberg report said that Chinese officials plan to ask their American counterparts during the upcoming eighth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue about the chance of a Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate ...
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“Mediocre” Is The New Air Cargo Reality
Mar 22, 2016The IATA reports that air cargo global growth continued to perform below its potential – “mediocre growth is now the new reality”. Growth in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) had positive momentum since 2H2015 and into ...
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China February Consumer Prices up 2.3%
Mar 10, 2016China's consumer prices increased 2.3 percent in February from one year earlier, up from January's 1.8 percent, official data showed Thursday. The inflation rate, the highest since July 2014, beat expectations as economists from the ...
Tags: Consumer Prices, inflation rate
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China's Economy Transitioning Not Derailing
Jan 22, 2016China'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 ...
Tags: Economy Transitioning, Economy
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Call for Potent Market Supervision After Tumultuous Year
Dec 31, 2015Economists 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 ...
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RMB's Upgrade to Reserve Currency "Good News": Ex-ambassador
Dec 28, 2015The decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to confer the reserve currency status on China's renminbi (RMB), "is good news," a former Chilean diplomat said. "It's good news because it acknowledges the role that the Chinese ...
Tags: RMB's Upgrade, Reserve Currency
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Chinese Legislators Call for Efforts to Control Local Gov't Debt
Dec 25, 2015Chinese 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 ...
Tags: Local Gov't Debt
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China's PRO-growth Moves to Deepen Structural Reform, Produce Big Dividends for Global Economy
Dec 25, 2015China's latest efforts to stimulate its economy by deepening structural reform will produce rich "dividends" shared within China's borders and across the world. While the effectiveness of traditional demand-side policy support lessens, ...
Tags: Structural Reform, PRO-growth
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Foreign Media Focus on Outcome of China's Key Economic Meeting
Dec 24, 2015The priorities set out by Chinese leaders at a key economic meeting have prompted strong interest among foreign media organizations. The Central Economic Work Conference, which was held here from Friday to Monday, reviewed China's ...
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Russian Expert Praises Anti-crisis Measures Adopted in China's Key Economic Meeting
Dec 24, 2015The Chinese government is taking absolutely adequate measures to handle slowing economic growth and an increase of certain imbalances, a leading Russian expert has said, commenting on China's key economic meeting held last weekend. "What ...
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China's Top Think Tank Forecasts 6.8 Percent Growth
Dec 22, 2015China's top think tank predicts that China will see its economic growth post between 6.6 and 6.8 percent in the coming year. The number comes ahead of a major economic conference this week, during which authorities are to evaluate the ...
Tags: China's Top Think Tank, Growth
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Property Market Warms as Gov't Policies Take Effect
Dec 22, 2015China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...