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China imported 2.57 million tons of cotton in 2005, an increase of 35.3 percent year on year, the China Cotton Association said Thursday. In December 2005, the country impo...

With approval from the State Council, the airport in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, will open to foreign flights after an upgrading project, the provincial...

China will make efforts to promote trade balance while seeking a stable rise of foreign trade in 2006, said Vice-Premier Wu Yi on Thursday. In her instructions to the two-d...

Hong Kong Labor force reached a record high by the end of last year while the demand for workers remained high with the economy continued to grow, according to information from Hon...

China was authorized to hold the Miss Travel contest annually from 2006 to 2010, Li Zhe, director of China's organizing committee for the Miss Travel contest said here Thursday. ...

The sixth Southwest China Ice-Snow Tourist Festival opened Monday in southwest China's Sichuan Province, attracting a number of travel agencies from all over the world. The fes...

Historical houses and buildings are being protected from being knocked down by a new scheme. Xi'an, with more than 3,100 years of urban construction history and serving as capi...

Industry and agriculture tours will be the highlight of the city's tourism. The two will add more twists to Shanghai's traditional attractions. The city has developed eight top...

Measures to ensure foreigners in Beijing do not get "lost" are being taken, the Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipality said yesterday. It expects to improve signs writte...

Beijing plans to build a Disney theme park by 2010, which would make it the first mainland Chinese city to compete with Hong Kong Disneyland, the South China Morning Post reports. ...

East China's Shandong Province received 1.55 million overseas tourists in 2005, up 30 percent from 2004, the provincial tourism administration announced Friday. Shandong report...

Hong Kong Director of Lands Patrick Lau said on Tuesday the total revenue from land premium for this financial year will be close to the estimated 31.9 billion HK dollars (4.12 bil...

China-made feeder liner ERJ145, the once-promising product in China's aviation market, now meets Waterloo in the battle to get more orders and faces the threat to stop production. ...

The government must keep its status as the majority shareholder of State banks to ensure the country's economic and financial security, a senior official said in remarks published ...

The under-construction Shanghai South Railway Station will be finished in March and begin trial operation in April. The station, whose giant round ceiling is 278 meters in diameter...

The finance arms of China's major industrial companies could invest at least 6 billion yuan (US$744 million) in China's stocks, domestic media said yesterday, as part of a drive to...

More than 80 officials, experts and entrepreneurs from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank convened here Monday discussing the facilita...

China's first self-designed civil aircraft ARJ21 were in full manufacturing period, according to the source from the China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I). China's...

Seventeen Chinese electrolysis aluminum producers each cut their output capacity by 10 percent, or a total of 335,000 tons, by Jan. 10, in a bid to cool soaring prices of alumina. ...

Many golf enthusiasts from Republic of Korea (ROK) had come to China's southeast city of Xiamen because of the warm weather and lower expenditure here, local sources told Xinhua o...

East China's Shandong Province received 1.55 million overseas tourists in 2005, up 30 percent from 2004, the provincial tourism administration announced Friday. Shandong re...

China's insurance funds will be allowed to be invested indirectly in infrastructure projects, as well as in the Bohai Industry Investment Fund, a senior official of the insurance w...

China's property premiums are estimated to have exceeded 122.9 billion yuan (15 billion U.S. dollars) in 2005, 1.1 times the figure for 2000, which stood at 59.8 billion yuan, Chi...

The premiums of foreign-funded insurance firms in China amounted to 34.12 billion yuan (about 4.26 billion US dollars)last year, or 6.9 percent of China's total,a senior official o...

Crude oil and natural gas output of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) reached 105.85 million tons and 36.7 billion cubic meters in 2005, up 1.2 and 28 percent respectivel...

In 2005 China launched six antidumping investigations against imported products, safeguarding the security of domestic industries on the basis of international rules, the Ministry...

China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation is expected to acquire animal nutrition supplement producer Adisseo Group with 400 million euros next week, a source with the Chinese c...

Air China's freight section has submitted an application to the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) for opening freight routes to the United States, said Tuesd...

The Chinese capital has set a goal to increase the total assets of its state-owned enterprises to 1 trillion yuan (123 billion U.S. dollars) by 2010, according to the city's top su...

Chinese officials on Thursday denied media reports that construction of an intercity railway network in the Yangtze River Delta would begin this year, saying the work would start d...