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Driven by rising land costs and speculative investment, Beijing's property market is poised to keep growing robustly in the new year after reaching a seven-year peak in average fla...

China's economy is expected to grow 8 percent annually over the next five years, the State Council Development and Research Center predicted. Wang Mengkui, director of the center...

Salespersons are the most-wanted professionals in China, while drivers of motorized vehicles are the most unmarketable in the country, according to a recent survey by the Ministry ...

One out of every three owners of private businesses in the country is a member of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), according to an official survey. The survey was joint...

The Tianjin New Technology Development Park Administration in north China's leading port cityannounced its plans to set up a joint-stock guarantee company withinternational banks t...

Thanks to intensified exploration efforts, China's three major oil companies found more oil and natural gas reserves in 2004, People's Daily reported. China National Petroleum Co...

People across China has been celebrating the advent of the traditional Lunar New Year's eve on Tuesday night and the ensuing week-long holiday, saying goodbye to the year of Monkey...

China's northeastern region, consisting of the three provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, is a perennial heavy industrial base that played a central role in the country's...

Taiwanese investors have pumped 1.17 billion US dollars into 748 ventures in Chongqing Municipality,the biggest industrial center in west China. The Taiwanese investment is prima...

Statistics from Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) showed that the country's 30 largest chain-store enterprises did 384.56 billion yuan (about 46.56 billion US dollars) in sales in...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sent a congratulatory message Wednesday to Thailand on the inauguration of the Chinese Spring Festival Culture Week. In the message, Wen said the two c...

WASHINGTON - China's unprecedented rise, fueled by foreign investment and technology, has put the Asian giant on a path to surpass the United States economically by 2025, the autho...

China's trade surplus for the past January reached the record high US$6.48 billion while its export rise by 42.2 percent over the same period of last year, customs statistics showe...

An exhibition featuring Italian Baroque and Renaissance paintings kicked off Sunday at the China Art Gallery. One of the most important items in Sino-France culture year, the exh...

People across China are celebratingthe Spring Festival, the New Year on China's lunar calendar, in a variety of ways. Braving the chilly winter morning, Wang Chengnian, a Beijing...

Nearly 40 thousand people from Beijing and Shanghai have traveled outside the Chinese Mainland on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Nearly 40 thousand people from Beij...

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc. on Wednesday said it has opened three new warehouse and distribution centers in three cities in China and plans to open in 20...

Shortages in land supply will continue this year, and are expected to bring up land prices steadily, officials with the Ministry of Land and Resources said. With steady economic ...

Government officials in Beijing have told local parks to limit admissions to avoid stampedes, with huge numbers of visitors expected over the Lunar New Year holidays, state media r...

HONG KONG, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A number of Hong Kong travel agencies said they have arranged more overseas-bounded touring parties in the first day of the Lunar New Year. Radi...

London is to open its first trade offices abroad, mayor Ken Livingstone has announced. They will both operate in China, with one in the capital Beijing and the other in Shanghai. ...

The central government will start soon to choose fund managers for the nation's corporate pension funds, paving the way for the funds to start investing in equities in a move that ...

Chinese companies invested 3.62 billion US dollars in non-financial sectors overseas in 2004, an increase of 27 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday. Up to ...

Any adjustment on the RMB exchange rate policy should be based on the consideration of three aspects. First, a sound macro-economy, a solid market mechanism and a healthy financial...

The information disclosed by the State Statistical Bureau on its official website on Feb.4 showed that in 2004, Chinese peasants' per capita net income was 2,936 yuan, an increase ...

Beijing Shougang Group, China's fourth largest steel maker, will move all its pollutive plants to neighboring province by 2010, Tuesday's Beijing Times reported. Xie Zhenhua, hea...

The Spring Festival is no longer an occasion for only Chinese people but also for Shenzhen expatriates who are planning the coming festival as holidays to remember. For London gir...

Efforts to whittle away at China's mountain of non-performing loans will get some help when the National People's Congress passes a proper bankruptcy law, something a senior legisl...

Guangdong, one of the main engines of growth in the world's seventh largest economy, will be short of one million migrant laborers this year, state media said, citing a government ...

On January 16, 2000, the State Council set up a task force to implement its strategic resolution on developing China's west. Since then, the central government reiterated its commi...