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China's top oil and gas firm, PetroChina, is raising the capacity of its naphtha cracker being built in western China by 25 percent to 450,000 tonnes per year (tpy), company source...

Chinese fuel oil demand in 2006 may find it difficult to recover from this year's slump on the back of high global oil prices and depressed refining margins by China's tight lid on...

China is experiencing a property bubble in some cities but it is not a nationwide phenomenon and the government is moving cautiously in reining in prices. “Only some ci...

Chinese refineries boosted operating rates to a record in September, data showed Thursday, as oil firms moved to tackle fuel shortages in the south and boost stocks ahead of peak h...

China's passenger vehicle sales jumped 33 percent in September over a year earlier, as price cuts helped spur demand, the Associated Press reported, citing China Association of Aut...

China’s trade surplus on automobile and related goods hit a record high of about US$3.5 billion in the first nine months of the year, according to a report by the China Assoc...

Three leading investment banks raised their forecasts for Chinese growth Thursday following robust figures showing economic output in the third quarter expanded 9.4 percent from a ...

China had no plans for now to change a restriction that limits foreign financial institutions from buying stakes in more than two Chinese banks, an official at the country’s ...

If the political relations between China and Japan are not harmonious in the long run, it is unrealistic for the two countries to keep good overall economic and trade relations. ...

China has seen no signs of deflation so far and the falls in prices for products are results of lowered production costs, improved productivity and increased supplies, a spokespers...

China and the United States signed an agreement in Washington on Wednesday with an aim to help improve China's air training and safety. The agreement was signed by the General Ad...

China's import and export volume in 2005 is to exceed 1.38 trillion US dollars, over 1.9 times than that in 2000, which stood at 474.3 billion US dollars, said Premier Wen Jiabao a...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the goal of doubling China's 2000 per capita gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010 is "active and prudent". The goal is based on an overa...

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said Tuesday China has 150 million people living in acute poverty despite its impressive economic growth in the past two decades, and the bank n...

A five-year economic blueprint proposed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) has set a goal to double the nation's 2000 per capita gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010, along the ...

Baoshan Iron & Steel Company has set up a new board of directors in a move to overhaul its management structure. The new board includes five non-Baoshan executives. Baosh...

Shanghai's fuel prices are increasing, both for domestic and motoring use. Officials say the hikes are due to higher international oil prices. Liquefied petroleum gas for hom...

China's recent reforms to its currency had done little to prompt reform in many of the domestic banks, which remain unprepared for foreign exchange rate fluctuations, domestic pres...

Nokia Capitel Telecommunication (NCT) said that its 200 millionth cell phones made in China had been rolled off the line, indicating that it has become China's largest cell phone m...

PetroChina Company Limited announced Monday that during the first three quarters of 2005 it saw a total output of 722 million barrels of oil equivalent, an increase of 36.3 million...

PetroChina Company Limited announced Monday that during the first three quarters of 2005 it saw a total output of 722 million barrels of oil equivalent, an increase of 36.3 million...

China on Monday affirmed its intention to enhance the flexibility and strengthen the role of market forces in its managed, floating exchange rate regime. This was included in a j...

A project aiming to promote cooperation between small and medium enterprises between China and the United States kicked off Sunday in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei p...

Businesses from overseas are turning their eyes from booming eastern Chinese cities to the less-developed western regions, as they will start a forum on trade cooperation with coun...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, the world's second-largest recipient of funds from abroad, fell 2.1 percent in the first nine months of the year. Contracted investment, a...

Chinese companies are intensifying import of Vietnamese coal amidst Vietnam's plan to raise prices of coal products in 2006, according to the Trade Information Center under the Vie...

Southeast Asia's largest lender, DBS Holdings, which has been in talks with China's Guangdong Development Bank, wanted a controlling stake in the Chinese lender, people familiar wi...

More than 130 million passengers will be transported by Chinese airlines this year, second only to the United States, Yang Yuanyuan, director general of the General Administration ...

China's export of electro-mechanical products is expected to top 400 billion US dollars this year, an official said in Guangzhou Sunday at the on-going 98th China Export Commoditie...

China's top legislator Wu Bangguo urged here Thursday the country to brave out a development path with Chinese characteristics for its modern agriculture. To that end, China must...