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Two Americans joined two Chinese partners in court yesterday accused of selling pirate DVDs on the Internet. The case,involving sales of more than 180,000 DVDs and worth more tha...

PetroChina, the country's largest oil and gas producer, reported record oil and gas production last year, boosted by the country's voracious appetite for energy, the company said y...

China's agriculture enters a new era of zero tax with 22 of its 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions on the mainland scrapping all agricultural taxes, releasing mill...

The subtropical city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China hosted 11.114 million tourists from home and abroad last year, a year-on-year rise of 30.1 percent, ...

This host city of the World Expo in 2010 views the grand event as a great opportunity to enhance its city image. Improving people's comprehensive quality will be one of its core t...

Airbus has already logged 139 orders for its new giant A380 aircraft, but success will not be complete unless it can interest China. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there is specu...

The subtropical city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China hosted 11.114 million tourists from home and abroad last year, a year-on-year rise of 30.1 percent, ...

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The national capital Beijing received a record 3.155 million tourists from overseas last year, a jump of 70.4 percent over the previous year, the la...

By the end of December 2004, China's national foreign exchange reserve amounted to 609.9 billion US dollars, up 51.3 percent year on year, with the growth rate 10.5 percentage poin...

Chinese brands are losing ground to their foreign rivals in the domestic consumer market, according to a report released last week by Sinomonitor International, a Sino-Japanese ind...

China's banking regulator has so far given the nod for 116 overseas banking institutions to conduct renminbi-denominated business as it opened the industry wider to foreign rivals....

China's futures industry will be opened further to allow for the launch of joint ventures on the mainland by qualified overseas financial institutions and let more domestic enterpr...

A senior cabinet official said China will continue to plunge huge investments into western regions over the next five years to develop it into an investment magnet for both domesti...

It is no longer a question of optimism or pessimism. The movement of the stock market in China simply seems unpredictable. With the bear roaring in the bourses for three and a ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao is urging members of the Communist Party of China to abide by the theoretical principles and apply them during the country's development to achieve soci...

Since January 1, 2005 China has entered into the "post-WTO transitional period'' from its WTO entry. So-called the "post-WTO transitional period'' is the period from Janu...

--- An interview with Xie Fuzhan, Deputy director with the Development and Research Center under the State Council The Chinese economy is now still marked on the round of an upri...

BEIJING, Jan. 14 -- Enthusiasm for the usually marketable tours to Southeast Asian destinations has dampened significantly by the December 26 tsunami. Individuals looking to t...

BEIJING, Jan. 14 -- Guangdong is well prepared for the Spring Festival holiday travel peak. The provincial government held a teleconference Wednesday to arrange transport bet...

The government's plan to end tax favours and bring all companies, domestic and foreign, under one tax regime has attracted the attention of foreign-funded companies. Fifty four f...

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to the Chinese mainland increased by nearly 13 per cent to US$60.6 billion last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Comme...

The number of mobile phone subscribers in China topped 334 million in 2004, up 65 million from 2003, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. The number of fixed-line ...

Three men have been sentenced to prison for contracting companies to make fake copies of Microsoft software, as a crackdown on widespread piracy continues. Wu jun, Han Ming and Wu...

Migrant workers can now seek work in South China's Guangdong Province immediately after Chinese lunar New Year, overturning a decade-long ban stopping a traditional influx of peopl...

China will not allow the establishment of new cigarette factories including foreign-funded ones, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) insisted yesterday. Speaking at ...

BEIJING, Jan. 13 -- China's outbound tourism has been booming with nearly 29 million people travelling overseas in 2004, an increase of 42 percent over the year before. Stati...

As the traditional Chinese Spring Festival approaches, the travel market is showing definite signs of heating up. Many travel agencies have introduced new packages to entice visito...

With the Lunar New Year less than a month away, many Chinese are making travel plans for the upcoming seven-day holiday. This year, more are expected to head overseas, as opposed t...

Foreigners seeking to renew visas or residence permits will be able to do so online under a trial to start in April. Chinese people applying for a second time for visas to visit ...

According to a report by the State Intellectual Property Office, China saw further development in its work in intellectual property in 2004. Applications for three kinds of paten...