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Beijing will face another electricity shortage this summer, with expected supply gap of one million kilowatts, said an official with the municipal Developmentand Reform Commission ...

The new Xiushui Market, a modern five-story building that stands just next to the former grounds of the Silk Street clothes market, just opened to the public recently, after its de...

The US textile and clothing industry has asked the US government to re-impose quotas on 14 categories of clothing to protect American manufacturers from Chinese imports. The cases...

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce of China expressed today China's strong opposition to the European Commission's publication of its guideline defining the basis and pro...

Chinese consumers are optimistic about the economy and spending more on consumer goods in the first quarter of 2005. According to a report released Thursday by the National B...

China plans to build 40 nuclear power plants over the next 15 years, making them the main power source for its booming east coast, a government technology official says. "Nu...

There is a 30 kilometers long underground city in Beijing, and Tiananmen Square, the Forbbiden City and the railway station are all accessible from the underground city. Ther...

China's economy will grow at a robust annual rate of 8.5 percent this year and may pick up further steam in 2006-2007 due to strong investment, the Asian Development Bank said in a...

With flowers being sold worldwide and overseas florists swarming it Guangdong, dubbed "natural greenhouse", is becoming the "world's flower nursery". Thanks t...

Mr. Serge Abou, new ambassador of the EU to China, has recently accepted a special interview of our reporter, elucidating his view on how to deepen the relations between the EU and...

Orders from foreign governments, international organizations and multinational giants have boosted China's exports. Multinationals bought less than 10 billion USD worth of goods in...

Negotiation is the only way to resolve trade disputes between China and the United States, a former leading US Government official insisted yesterday. Speaking during a visit to B...

A survey shows that there are more than 100,000 online stores in China which have some 20 million pieces of goods available. The survey involves web sites with independent domain...

China's business confidence index reached 135.9 points in the first quarter of 2005, up 5.1 points over the last quarter of 2004, according to a report released by the National Bur...

Most Hong Kong banks raised their lending and savings rates Monday with market watchers expecting more rate hikes in coming months. “Fortunately Hong Kong is now on the tra...

Shanghai & Shenzhen 300 index jointly compiled by the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange will be officially released on April 8. The code of the Shanghai &...

China would release a plan on 3G license issuance at the Global Summit-3G in China held this September, according to officials from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). ...

An official with the research academy of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in an interview with the International Finance News yesterday that if EU made a unfavorable evaluatio...

China's rising property prices posed a threat to the stability of the nation's economy and local officials who failed to take measures to rein in growth would be held to account, t...

A senior Chinese official has announced the number of Chinese living in poverty fell by 2.9 million last year. Director of the Poverty Relief Office of the State Council, Liu Jia...

The 2004 per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the Yangtze River Delta was 35,147 yuan (about 4,247 US dollars), 5,914 yuan (713 dollars) more than 2003, China's National Bure...

Standard Chartered Bank and the Bank of East Asia announced Monday that they're raising their best lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 5.5 percent, local radio stat...

The latest data from the customs shows that for the first time ASEAN has become China's 4th trade partner. For the first two months of 2005, trade volume between the two sides post...

The Forbes headquarters in the US published the newest list of global top 2,000 enterprises on Sunday, among which the Citibank Group stood out on top with its total assets of 1.48...

China will continue to expand its energy production capacity, with the aim of using one percentage point in energy production growth to support two percentage points in GDP growth ...

From April 1, the European Central Bank (ECB) will add seven currencies including Renminbi into its daily reference exchange rates, according to China Business News. An ECB offic...

Economist Yao Jingyuan with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on March 31 that there still exist three major prominent problems in China's economic operation in 2005, na...

Toy designers and gold investment analysts may not appear to have much in common, but the two professions found themselves rubbing shoulders yesterday when China's labour watchdog ...

The commissioner of China's Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Yang Wenchang, says the 'one country, two systems' policy has been smoothly implemented...

A spokesman for China's National Bureau of Statistics refuted reports that slow growth of imports from January to February was caused by weak domestic demand, Wednesday's Economic ...