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Air China signed a contract with Airbus Thursday for purchasing 20 Airbus A330-200s. The planes are scheduled for delivery from May 2006. China Aviation Supplies Import and Expor...

The latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that China's macro economy has achieved a successful soft landing, a source with the State Information Center (...

The gross domestic product (GDP) of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region surged by 12.1 percent year on year to reach 9.489 billion yuan (1.17 billion US dollars)in the first ...

China's large industrial enterprises reported 3,227.4 billion yuan (about 397.9 billion US dollars) of value added in the first half of the year, up 16.4 percent over the same peri...

China issued its first state policy on the iron and steel sector Wednesday, raising the industrial thresholds for foreign investors and imposing tighter controls on market access. ...

The US search giant Google announced its formal plans to enter the Chinese market with the appointment of new head of its Chinese operations and the establishment of a development ...

HSBC announced Thursday to raise its prime rates 25 basis points to 6.5 percent, effective from Friday. Bank of China (Hong Kong), Hang Seng bank and some other Hong Kong ban...

China would grant licenses for 40 institutions to manage corporate pensions by early August, the China Securities Journal reported Wednesday, in a long-anticipated move to lure mor...

Baosteel, China's largest steel conglomerate based in this economic hub in east China, ranked 309th among the Fortune 500 for this year, up from the year-earlier place of 372th, ac...

As reporter learns from the State Work Group on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Protection, the Chinese government attaches great importance to IPR protection and has kept inte...

China will continue to have a trade surplus as more than half of its foreign trade is done through export processing, spokesman Zheng Jingping of the National Bureau of Statistics ...

China's gross domestic product (GDP) for the first half of this year reached 6,742.2 billion yuan (812.3 billion US dollars), a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent. "It was...

China issued its first state policy on the iron and steel sector here Wednesday, raising the industrial thresholds for foreign investors and imposing tighter controls on market acc...

International economic cooperationis bringing about rapidly growth of foreign trade in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the first half of 2005, said asource with i...

The head of the European Union ( EU) Commission said in Hong Kong Monday that China and China's Hong Kong need to play an active role in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations...

After five years' preparation, Erdos Airport -- China's first private-run airport -- started construction Monday in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. With a total i...

China should not issue new economic tightening measures, a top statistical bureau official said, underscoring views that growth in the world’s seventh-largest economy may be ...

State-owned Agricultural Bank of China’s first-half operating profit rose 36.43 percent to 21.83 billion yuan (US$2.64 billion), domestic media said Monday. Its nonperf...

China unveiled rules Monday allowing companies to issue warrants, in a bid to add depth to its fledgling securities market and to facilitate its efforts to make State shares tradea...

As foreign banks double their efforts to court partners in China, the country's banking industry, scheduled to be fully open by 2006, has been thrust into a heated battle. Ev...

GFMS said at the release conference of its Chinese edition of Gold Survey 2005 that China had become the world's 4th largest gold consumer who consumed 235.1 tons of gold in 2004. ...

China's central bank announced that the country's foreign exchange reserve surged to 711 billion US dollars by the end of June, representing a year-on-year increase of 51.1 percent...

The International Finance News reported on July 18 that by May 30, 2005, the World Bank had made 38.5 billion USD loan commitments to China. The package was composed of 28.3 billio...

In sharp contrast with the country's soaring number of mobile subscribers, major Chinese handset makers have continued to report profit drops in the fist half of this year. Eastc...

China may launch its next manned space mission within three months, an aerospace official revealed yesterday. The country is also planning to put at least two more meteorologica...

Air China has already transported more than 400 million passengers safely, according to Li Jiaxiang, president of China National Aviation Holding Company. Air China flew to o...

International Textile Group, the fabric giant run by U.S. financier Wilbur Ross, and Hong Kong conglomerate Novel Group broke ground Wednesday on a US$95 million denim plant on the...

The formaldehyde content in Chinese beer is lower than the standard of the World Health Organization, thus Chinese beer is safe to drink, said a report released by China's quality ...

State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) banned foreign companies from direct involvement in the operations of all TV and radio stations on Tuesday, according to ...

Chinese joint venture consortium signed two contracts with the Myanmar electric power authorities Friday in Yangon on the implementation of the Yeywa hydropower project, the larges...