From the get go, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) chairmanship of the Kimberley Process (KP) had a fair share of controversies as civil society, and a number of member states, expressed their concern with seating the 2016 chair in Dubai. ...
German luxury vehicles maker Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) has broken on a new plant in Mexico. Guests attending the official ceremony in San Luis Potosí included Rogelio Garza Garza, Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce at the ...
Tags: BMW, innovative technologies
The plan to launch China's first crude oil futures contract is facing more roadblocks as the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, or INE, comes under government review, a senior official close to the matter said Monday. "The target ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude Oil
To achieve its ambitions to become a global innovation and technology hub by 2030, Shanghai is going all-out to attract foreign talent to speed up its transformation. Since June, the city government has introduced several beneficial ...
Tags: Talent Policies, foreign talent
China has opened a court in the Guangdong free trade zone. The court is located in Nansha District and will hear civil and business cases arising locally. The cases to be handled by the court are related to investment, trade, finance, ...
Tags: Free Trade Zone, Court
Uber has announced a partnership with a major Chinese auto maker. The San Francisco-based company says it will work with Guangzhou Automobile Group in areas including investment, sales, marketing and promoting new energy vehicles. Terms ...
Tags: Uber, Guangzhou Automobile Group
Chinese steel pipe manufacturer, Jiangsu Yulong Group, on Wednesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a large-scale factory in Nigeria's Lagos Lekki Free Trade Zone. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by government officials, ...
Tags: steel pipe, Submerged Arc Welded Pipe, OCTG
In the first three quarters of 2015, China’s outward investment and cooperation witnessed a rapid development. Nonfinancial direct investment overseas reached US$ 87.3 billion, up 16.5% year on year; the newly signed foreign contract ...
Tags: outward investment, foreign contract projects, One Belt and One Road
The 11thseminar of the series of seminars called the “Brilliant 12th Five Year” was held on October 19 in Beijing. Our Journalist interviewed the reporter, China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce ...
The 25th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade was successfully held in Chicago, the United States, on December 16-18, 2014. Consensus has been reached by China and the United States as follows: Export Control: The ministries ...
The National Business Work Conference was held in Beijing on December 28, 2014. The main tasks of the conference were to fully implement the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 3rd and the 4th Plenary ...
Tags: National Business Work Conference, deepen reform, foreign trade
Against the backdrop of a severe international investment environment, great difficulties and challenges from the downward pressure of the domestic economy, China’s overall absorption of FDI remained stable in 2014, with the quality ...
Tags: FDI, foreign investment, liberalization of trade in service
2014 marked the first year of the China-Germany Economic Adviser Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council) to operate officially since its establishment. The Council focused on such five core tasks as offering advice and suggestions ...
Tags: China-Germany Trade and Economic Cooperation, enterprises
In April 2014, the Ministry of Commerce integrated some of the business functions of the former Bureau of Fair Trade and the former Bureau of Industrial Damage Investigation and officially established the Bureau of Trade Remedy and ...
The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Straits Exchange Foundation(SEF) jointly held the 7th Regular Meeting of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee in Taipei on January 29, 2015. Executive Vice ...