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Soaring lending for real estate deals poses a serious risk for China's already debt-swamped banks, the country's banking watchdog says. The warning comes amid a series of governm...

Regions inhabited by China's minority ethnic groups experienced an average 10 percent of annual GDP growth since 2000, faster than any previous periods, said a government official....

Following technological improvement and market changes, China's color TV industry for the first time set up technical standards and patent organization in order to build a harmonio...

China announced Monday it would no longer impose export tariffs on 81 categories of textile products, beginning June 1, 2005. A previous decision to quintuple the export tari...

In 2004, China's gross energy output reached 1.97 bln tons of SCE, representing 11 percent of the world's gross output. China has become the 3rd largest energy producers in the wor...

China will keep its currency stable at a "reasonable and well-balanced level" while improving the yuan's exchange rate mechanism, the central bank said in its first quart...

A new engine plant, cooperatively run by Volkswagen of Germany and China's First Auto Group, was officially opened Thursday in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning ...

China will open its petroleum and refined oil market by the end of next year in compliance with commitments made when it entered the World Trade Organization, a commerce chamber re...

China's central bank chief and a trio of top government economists lined up on Friday to urge a cautious approach to economic reforms, defying increasingly urgent U.S. demands for ...

China has revised downwards the growth rate of its economy in the first quarter to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent, or 3.1319 trillion yuan (378 billion US dollars), the National Bure...

The value of Macao's property sales and purchase contracts signed in the first quarter rose 80.6 percent over the same period of last year, according to official statistics publish...

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build a third auto plant in Tianjin, China with annual capacity of 200,000 units, the Asahi Shimbun daily reported. A Toyota spokesman said no decision...

China should adjust its oil reserve strategy by increasing planned oil reserves and establishing hinterland bases for future oil storage, said Associate Professor Cai Rongsheng wit...

Ending a decline since March 2004, China's output of sedan cars reached 263,700 in April, up 6.8 percent from the same month last year, according to statistics released Wednesday b...

Twenty years ago, factory owners couldn't move into South China fast enough. But now Chuck Chiang is moving on. China's southern coastal provinces used to be famous for their sup...

China began to issue 33.7 billion yuan (4.1 billion US dollars ) worth of book-entry treasury bonds as of Wednesday. The seven-year bonds, the fifth batch of the treasury bonds C...

Two leading Chinese wireless value-added service providers Kongzhong Corp and Linktone Ltd showed a slowdown in the first quarter amid industrial adjustments and increasing competi...

The European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said yesterday the European Union was glad to see China's voluntary measures to increase its export tariffs on textiles. "The...

Japan and China must tone down the nationalism that has fuelled rising bilateral tensions, while the world must adapt to China's surging growth or be left behind, Singaporean Prime...

China is still a developing country and its level of development should not be overestimated, according to an article by Bo Xilai, Chinese minister of commerce, on the 14th page of...

The volume of cargo passing through China's ports every year is to rise by 50% in the next five years. The volume of cargo passing through China's ports every year is expected to...

Chinese textile manufacturers are deciding how to cope with the blow of Friday's announcement that China will raise the export tariffs on 74 textile products beginning on June 1. ...

A summer power shortfall in China, the world's second largest electricity consumer after the United States, is likely to be 20 percent higher than previously expected, Xinhua news ...

SHENZHEN: Two little-known private companies beat the country's largest carrier to win a controlling 65 per cent stake in Shenzhen Airlines yesterday afternoon. Shenzhen-based Hu...

“Zhongguancun” doesn’t roll off the Western tongue easily, but it will soon be an address that technology investors must learn. For 25 years, locales from Singapo...

China's textile makers, who spent $14.3 billion last year on building factories, say local demand will buffer any slowdown in orders from U.S. and European market because of a loom...

Biotechnology-related industry is being hailed as a new engine to sustain China's economic miracle in the years to come, a high-profile research team has told the government. Cla...

Banks must properly classify their their loans and non-credit assets to help ward off potential risk, the banking regulator said. Domestic policy banks, State-owned commercial b...

The first round of China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations will begin Monday afternoon in Sydney. Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Wu Bangguo, visiting ch...

Steel prices, which saw a soaring rise in China after the Shanghai-based largest steelmaker, Baosteel, accepted a 71.5 percent price hike for iron ore in an agreement with internat...