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Archaeologists in northwest China's Gansu Province recently discovered two pottery cooking utensils made 2,800 years ago. A pot and a food steamer, excavated from a site in Linta...

The Three Gorges Dam, China's gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, is expected to open to tourists soon. The dam, 2,309 meters long and 185 meters high, is divided i...

BEIJING, Feb. 17 -- The 21st Century Business Herald, the first authoritative financial and economic newspaper published after the Chinese New Year, has announced the appraisal of ...

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will invest 1 million yuan (120,000 US dollars) in 2005 to protect 3,000-year-old cliff carvings. Located in the Tianshan Mount...

China will soon to be a full member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), president of FATF said in Hong Kong on February 16. Speaking at an international conference entitle...

China has 11,000 law firms throughout the country, 70 percent of which, or 7,770, are owned by lawyers, according to the Ministry of Justice. In the past, all Chinese law firms w...

Beijing received 870,000 tourists from elsewhere in China during the week-long Lunar Chinese New Year festival, representing a year-on-year increase of 2.4 percent,the Beijing Muni...

The Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will examine the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) at it...

Chinese banks have been issuing more bank cards in recent years, which totaled 762 million at the end of 2004. Among these cards, 663 million were debit cards and 98 million were...

Shanghai port registered US$24.9 billion of foreign trade in January, up 23.8 percent over the same period of 2003. Shanghai customs said the port, China's largest, did US$15.09 ...

The Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will examine the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) at it...

Three financial market watchdogs yesterday jointly published a set of guidelines to clear the way for insurance companies investing in the domestic stock market. The move, announ...

China saw a record high venture capital investment of 1.27 billion US dollars in 2004, according to statistics made by a non-governmental venture capital research institute. The ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Tuesday it planned to hire 2,000 local engineers in China over the next three years to bolster its development ...

SHANGHAI-Tongji University, one of China's most prestigious national colleges, will open a branch in Osaka, mainly for students hoping to eventually do business in the rising econo...

BEIJING, Feb. 15 --Panda protection in Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve in Northwest China's Gansu Province has helped the iconic bears increase their numbers. The third ...

ZHENGZHOU, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists claim that the large-scale city remains they discovered in Dengfeng in central China's Henan Province may be the ruins of Yangcheng...

The volume of trade between Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, and the European Union (EU) shot up 61.8 percent year-on-year to 1.27 billion US dollars last ...

Hunan Province's foreign trade jumped by 45.5 percent to 5.44 billion US dollars in 2004, with imports up 47.2 percent to 2.34 billion US dollars and exports up 44.3 percent to nea...

The Hong Kong government has vigorously supported the development of the local film industry since Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997, Commissioner for Television and Ent...

Jiangsu Province, an economic engine in East China, had used US$101.8 billion of foreign investment in real terms by the end of 2004, according to the provincial statistics bureau....

China saw a record high venture capital investment of US$1.27 billion in 2004, according to statistics made by a non-governmental venture capital research institute. The investme...

Local governments across China have adjusted their annual economic growth projections downward in a move aimed at cooling their respective economies, making them more efficient and...

China hopes to boost its dairy industry over the next 10 to 15 years, thanks to the growing consumption of milk and other dairy products in the world's most populous nation. With...

The volume of trade between Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, and the European Union (EU) shot up 61.8 percent year-on-year to 1.27 billion US dollars last ...

Sales of luxury cars in China last year slowed sharply, with Audi and Mercedes Benz of Germany both failing to meet sales goals. China's auto market, once seen by many foreign ma...

BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- It's enough to give Cupid the blues. Valentine's Day, which falls today, is heading for a washout in China as the nation's romantics continue to enjoy the...

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Beijing reported 15,638 yuan (1,884 US dollars) of per capita disposable income for urban households in 2004, up 12.6 percent from the previous year. ...

BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- China had issued more than 760 million RMB bank cards by the end of last year. China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, says that card based expe...

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14 -- China's largest life insurer launched a new service to protect Chinese international travelers against accidents occurring when they are overseas on business,...