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The stand-off between China's steel mills and the world's major iron ore miners continues three days after the June-30 deadline to agree ore prices for the next 12 months. But who will blink first in the ongoing guessing game over how the global economic slowdown will affect the future of supply and demand? The side with the best view of future prices will win the negotiations, say analysts. Both the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), which heads the talks on behalf ... - [read more]
Hong Kong stocks went up 25.35 points, or 0.14 percent to close at 18,203.40 on Friday. Turnover moved down to 54.29 billion HK dollars (7.01 billion U. S. dollars) from Thursday's 68.38 billion HK dollars (8.83 billion U.S. dollars). &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ... - [read more]
A proposal for charging carbon tariffs towards imported products will breach the rules of the World Trade Organization and the spirit of Kyoto Protocol, Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), said Friday in Beijng. Imposing carbon tariffs on foreign products will allow developed countries to conduct trade protection in the name of protecting the environment, said Yao in a statement posted on the website of the MOC Friday. The concept of "carbon tariffs", initiall ... - [read more]
Shanghai authorities on Friday announced the technical causes for the collapse last Saturday of an apartment building under construction, saying whoever was found responsible for the deadly accident would be "severely penalized." The "Lotus Riverside" compound of Minhang District collapsed because its groundwork was unbalanced with piles of earth mounting on its northern side, and a 4.6-meter-deep pit on its south where an underground garage was being built, a municipal government spokes ... - [read more]
A proposal for charging carbon tariffs towards imported products will breach the rules of the World Trade Organization and the spirit of Kyoto Protocol, Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), said in Beijing Friday. Imposing carbon tariffs on foreign products will allow developed countries to conduct trade protection in the name of protecting the environment, said Yao in a statement posted on the website of the MOC Friday. The concept of "carbon tariffs", initiall ... - [read more]
Some people in Japan have advocated adopting nuclear arms and attacking enemy bases following DPRK's nuclear test and missile launch, according to a report by Kyodo News Agency on July 2 reported by Global Times correspondent Zhao Xueliang. The report also said that officials involved in China-US relations have disclosed that China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi expressed his concerns over the issue to his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone at a talk held in Tokyo in June. China has a ... - [read more]
In general, the economic situation is improving. Experts and scholars generally believe that the downtrend of China's economy has initially been curbed, and is now picking up momentum. However, economic growth has not yet stabilized and China's economy is still in a difficult period. Mixed economic data from the first few months of this year indicates that expansionary policies have not yet fully offset the impact of rapid economic decline. Growth in foreign demand is not optimistic. It is ex ... - [read more]
One person is dead and six others missing after a ferryboat capsized in central China's Hunan Province early Friday, the local government said. The boat carrying 38 people from Dongmen Village to Daoxian County seat in Yongzhou City when it capsized at around 6:40 am, county chief Tang Xianglin said. The boat was designed to carry up to 40 people, Tang said. He said the boat was overturned by the torrential flow after Thursday night's heavy rain destroyed a dam in the upp ... - [read more]
China and Brazil have maintained close exchanges and cooperation between their legislatures, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Thursday. Liu Yunshan, member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and head of the CPC Central Committee Publicity Department, made the remarks when meeting with Brazil's Senate President Jose Sarney and Michel Temer, president of the Chamber of Deputies. China's National People's Congress (NPC) has exchanged its experi ... - [read more]
The Committee of 100 (C-100) said Thursday that it has been designated as a Strategic Partner of the USA National Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As a strategic partner, the C-100 will assist the USA National Pavilion in fund raising and support the "Success of the Chinese in America" exhibit in the Pavilion. The C-100, a national non-partisan, non-profit membership organization comprised of prominent Chinese Americans in a broad range of professions, has been outreach ... - [read more]
Senior Chinese official Wang Gang met Ukrainian parliament chief Vladimir Litvin in Kiev Thursday, and they agreed to enhance exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, and the Supreme Council of Ukraine. Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee and vice chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, is leading a delegation on a good-will visit t ... - [read more]
Chinese equities extended gains Friday led by property and coal shares. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index on Shanghai bourse closed at 3,088.37 points, up 28.12 points, or 0.92 percent. The Shenzhen Component Index closed at 12,258.79 points, up 288.07 points, or 2.41 percent. Total turnover expanded to 267.12 billion yuan (39.28 billion U.S. dollars) from 266.19 billion yuan on the previous trading day. &$&$Source:Xinhua&$&$ ... - [read more]
Austrlia-based Emergent Resources announced on Friday it would form a joint venture with China Metallurgical Investment to develop its Beyondie Iron project in Western Australia, the Australian newspaper reported. Emergent revealed that the agreed joint venture would provide 200 million Australian dollars (159.3 million U.S. dollars) to fund the project. The mine, in the state's mid-west iron ore region, will initially target production of three million tonnes a year of magnetite ... - [read more]
People's Daily Online will suspend part of its services temporarily from 8 p.m. July 3 till 2 p.m. July 4 due to system maintenance. Please come to visit till 2 p.m. July 4. Best regards! ... - [read more]
From June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010, a household appliance trade-in subsidy program will be implemented in nine pilot provinces, municipalities and cities comprising Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Fuzhou and Changsha. The subsidies will be jointly financed by the central government and local governments of pilot provinces, municipalities and cities. The central government will cover 80 percent of the subsidies, and the local governments will fund the remain ... - [read more]
At the end of 2008, there were 75.931 million Communist Party of China (CPC) members, 1.778 million more than in 2007. There were 3.718 million grassroots CPC organizations, 55,000 more than the previous year. This included 179,000 grassroots Party Committees, 229,000 general Party branches and 3.31 million grassroots Party branches. 1. Composition of the Party membership The gender, nationality and education level of CPC members: in 2008 there were 15.969 million female Party members, ... - [read more]
China's 2000 think tanks are more than the 1,777 in the US, according to the latest statistics. The Development Research Center of the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Social Science and research institutes under universities, ministries and commissions have formed an advanced think tank system in China. These think tanks fully play their role, propose ideas and offer advice when the government formulates important national policies, or resolves issues concerning people's livelihood. ... - [read more]
China's home-grown global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, said an industry insider. China aims to make Compass a navigation satellite system of 35 satellites by 2020, which can offer global service, Hu Gang, vice-president of Beijing BD Star Navigation Co Ltd, was quoted by Friday's China Daily as saying. Compass, or Beidou (Big Dipper) in Chinese, is expected to rival the US-developed GPS, the EU' ... - [read more]
Police in east China's Hangzhou City confirmed Friday that electrocution was the cause of the "accidental" death of an A/H1N1 flu patient in a hospital on Wednesday. "The patient died of electrocution caused by leakage of electricity from electrical circuits in her ward lavatory, when she was taking a shower," said a statement jointly released by the public security, health and quality supervision departments. The patient was identified as a 34-year-old woman named Lou Yihong, wh ... - [read more]
Six people are dead and another is missing after rains triggered a landslide in central China's Hunan Province Thursday, the local government said. The landslide happened in Shuangfeng County, which saw an average rainfall of 100 mm Thursday, the county government said in a statement Friday. It toppled at least two homes in Shiniu Village, killing a family of four and leaving another villager missing. Two more deaths were reported in the neighboring towns of Santangpu and Heye. ... - [read more]
About 2,300 magicians from 65 countries and regions will attend the 24th FISM World Championships of Magic, to be held in Beijing from July 26 to 31, according to the event's host China Acrobats Association (CAA) Friday. The championship is the first of its kind to be held in a developing country since its founding 61 years ago. The magic arts committee of China Acrobats Association joined FISM in 2000 and won the bid to host this year's event in 2006 during competition with Gran ... - [read more]
Auckland City Libraries and the New Zealand Chinese Association Auckland Inc. have collaborated to develop the first New Zealand Chinese digital communities website. This new initiative will be launched at the Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas International Conference, on July 18 at the University of Auckland Business School. The online community aims to create connections within the Chinese community and assist with bridging the gap between generations of Chinese New Zealanders. U ... - [read more]
A student who achieved the highest score in this year's national college entrance exam in Chongqing Municipality will lose a chance to enter his dream school this year because his family lied about his ethnicity to achieve extra admission points. The irony is that he didn't need those bonus points to get into the prestigious Peking University. And his parents and another person allegedly involved in the scheme to increase the boy's admissions chances have lost their jobs for falsifying inform ... - [read more]
The reason most people do not like going to the museum is that "in China a museum looks like a giant opening textbook, which obviously bores audiences from both home and abroad," said Zhang Jie, deputy chief of the Department of Display Design at the Capital Museum in Beijing The key problem was presentation, said Zhang. "We have the techniques or equipment at the same level as the West, but a massive difference in mindset, in skills such as exhibiting or curating." In other countries, sa ... - [read more]
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About 80 newborn baby girls from a county of Guizhou Province in southwest China have been removed from their families by local officials since 2001, and most have been handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each, the Southern Metropolis News reported on Wednesday. Among the 80 families are Lu Xiande and Yang Shuiying, a poor farming couple whose fifth daughter was removed by local family planning officials when they didn't pay the appropriate fine, it reporte ... - [read more]
People who coerce or cajole children into becoming beggars will be the focus of a nationwide crime fighting campaign by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), a senior official told the Global Times today. Chen Shiqu, head of the ministry's Office Against Human Trafficking, said public security departments nationwide will "do all they can" to bring justice to those who force youngsters into lives of crime. "Many of these children are tortured by their bosses, so we're working with the Mini ... - [read more]
Allegations that a Chongqing district government spent 60 million yuan ($8.7 million) on cars over three years has provoked outrage online. The budget of the unnamed district government was recently leaked on the Internet. The data shows that 16.9 million yuan was spent on cars and maintenance in 2006, 20.9 million yuan in 2007 and 22.8 million yuan in 2008. The budget said it would cut spending on vehicle purchases and maintenance, official's reception cost, utility and gas bills an ... - [read more]
The developer of a planned chemical plant in Maoming, Guangdong province, has received strong protests from nearby residents who say the plant will cause pollution and health problems in their neighborhoods. The feedback came after the company publicized a notice on June 4 to seek public opinions to be included in an environmental impact assessment. Plans call for the Maoming paraxylene (PX) project to be built within the Maoming Oil Refinery Plant. "The site of the PX project is too ... - [read more]
About 80 newborn baby girls from a Guizhou county have been removed from their families by officials since 2001, and most have been handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each, the Southern Metropolis News reported on Wednesday. Among the 80 families are Lu Xiande and Yang Shuiying, a poor farming couple whose fifth daughter was removed by local family planning officials when they didn't pay the appropriate fine, it reported. Like every other father in Zhen ... - [read more]
The wife of a man who died after 17 hours of alleged torture in detention is fighting to clear her husband's name and wants the police officers accused of the death behind bars. Wan Jianguo, a 43-year-old medical company salesman, died on Aug 8 last year after investigators from the Nanchang municipal police bureau of Jiangxi province interrogated him about the deaths of six patients at a hospital in Nanchang. Wan, according to authorities, was linked to the deaths because the company he w ... - [read more]
China's global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, a navigation industry insider said yesterday. China aims to make Compass a navigation satellite system of 35 satellites by 2020, which can offer global service. Compass, or Beidou (Big Dipper) in Chinese, is expected to rival the US-developed GPS, the EU's GPS and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System, earlier reports said. Officials representing the ... - [read more]
China would like to see a diversification of the international currency system in the future and believes it would be "normal" if the issue came up at the "8+5 summit" involving the Group of Eight (G8) and emerging powers, Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei said Thursday. But He, who is in charge of China's G8 meeting preparations, said he was not aware of Beijing asking for a discussion of reserve currencies at the high-level meetings in Italy. He was responding to a Reuters report Thursday ... - [read more]
With the goal of building Shanghai into a world-class financial hub, the central government is showing renewed interest in inviting foreign-funded firms to be listed in the country. Deputy commerce minister Chen Jian said yesterday that his ministry will continue to work with other Cabinet departments on policies regarding domestic IPOs of foreign firms to "actively guide high-quality foreign firms to go public in China". The government said as early as November 2001 that it might allow fo ... - [read more]
China's global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, a navigation industry insider was quoted as saying on Thursday. China aims to make Compass a navigation satellite system of 35 satellites by 2020, which can offer global service, the China Daily reported Friday. Compass, or Beidou (Big Dipper) in Chinese, is expected to rival the US-developed GPS, the EU's GPS and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System. ... - [read more]
Ninety-seven primary school students in north China's Hebei Province have fallen ill in a suspected food poisoning case, local government sources said Thursday. The students in Yulong Bilingual Primary School in Dingzhou City started to show symptoms of fever and vomiting on June 29. Eight of all nine hospitalized have been discharged from hospital by Thursday night. Local health authorities have ruled out initially the possibility of A/H1N1 flu virus infection. Further i ... - [read more]
The management of a Hebei detention center is being investigated after two prisoners died and another was severely injured by a jailhouse bully. The provincial-level investigation was launched after the family of the bullied man went to authorities to complain about the way he had been treated at the Zanhuang detention center. Su Zhengjun, of Hebei province public security bureau, said two mysterious deaths happened at the center in 2007. Previous to that, Qin Yingwei, from Dongjie, Heb ... - [read more]
A total of 204 university students in northwest China's Shaanxi Province have recovered from diarrhea caused by unknown reasons as of Thursday. The students at the Weishui campus of Chang'an University in Xi'an, the provincial capital, had fallen ill with diarrhea, headache and nausea since late June, sources with the university said. Most of the cases, scattered across the campus, have recovered shortly after medical treatment. Only 21 are still receiving medical treatment. ... - [read more]
Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 others injured after a passenger bus collided into a parked truck Thursday in north China's Hebei Province, local police said. The accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. on a highway in Xianxian County. Two were killed at the scene and seven died at the hospital. Another 15 were injured. The 28-seat bus was carrying 25 passengers. Local police is investigating the cause of the accident. &$&$Source:Xinhua&$&$ ... - [read more]
Shanghai World Expo organizers haven't received a letter of confirmation from the United States on its participation in and the appointment of a commissioner general to the 2010 event. Countries and organizations are only regarded as attending the World Expo when the host receives official confirmation, according to the International Exhibition Bureau. So far, 191 countries and 48 international organizations have confirmed their participation, said the Bureau of Shanghai World Ex ... - [read more]
Chinese President Hu Jintao's forthcoming visit to Italy ahead of the G8 summit paves the way for stronger bilateral ties, an Italian expert told Xinhua in an interview. Luca La Bella, a China analyst with Rome's International Studies Center, said that in the past decades, political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China have improved. "Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Italy will reinforce this strategic collaboration," he said. Hu will attend a meeting be ... - [read more]
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang on Thursday called for technical upgrades to enhance workplace safety and improve emergency rescue systems. When visiting an exhibition on workplace safety and emergency rescue equipment held by the State Administration of Work Safety, Zhang pointed out that workplace safety is closely related to the interests of the people and the country. China has kept increasing spending on technical improvements to better workplace safety with advanced equi ... - [read more]
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government and the Finnish government signed an agreement for the promotion and protection of investments on Thursday in Helsinki, the HKSAR government said. Rita Lau, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the HKSAR government who was currently on a visit to Finland, signed the agreement with Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Vayrynen, the Information Services Department of the HKSAR government said i ... - [read more]
Macao's gross gaming revenues for the first half of this year dropped by 12 percent year-on-year to 51.5 billion patacas (6.52 billion U.S. dollars), the Macao Post Daily reported on Thursday, quoting unnamed government sources. Local gaming sector generated 8.25 billion patacas (1.04 billion dollars), a decrease of 17 percent from the same period of last year, according to the daily. In the second quarter of this year, Macao's gaming revenues amounted to 25.5 billion patacas (3.23 billi ... - [read more]
Angry relatives of an A/H1N1 flu patient who died "accidentally" Wednesday in east China's Zhejiang Province stormed the hospital where she died as they suspected electric shock caused her death. More than 20 of the patient's relatives rushed into the No. 1 People's Hospital of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou city, where the patient had been staying, and smashed the hall next to the gate and an ambulance with rocks. Glasses from the hall and flower terrace in front of the hospital were destr ... - [read more]
A juicy golden mango on the shelf of a high-end Beijing grocery looked as fresh as it did in the orchard in southern Taiwan, showing no signs of a journey by ship and air. Three days ago, a farmer picked it from the mango tree at Yujing township in southern Taiwan on the early morning when its skin was still a bit green. Packed in a cardboard box, it was sent to Kaohsiung port in the morning, where its journey across the Taiwan Straits would start. It arrived in Kinmen Is ... - [read more]
Zimbabwe's Vice President Joice Mujuru has said the last two and a half years have been seen an increase in economic cooperation between Zimbabwe and the People's Republic of China. Speaking at a meeting she held with the outgoing Chinese Ambassador Yuan Nansheng, Mujuru said Zimbabwe and China have a history of excellent political ties, according to ZBC News on Thursday. She also noted that cooperation between the two countries in the mining sector is bearing fruit with some Zim ... - [read more]
The visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said on Thursday that China has always been a friend to Sri Lanka and he is seeking closer bilateral ties during his five-day official visit. "China has remained a friend of Sri Lanka at times of difficulty. A friend in need is a friend indeed," said Bogollagama in an exclusive interview with Xinhua. This is Bogollagama's first visit to China as Sri Lankan foreign minister since he took office in January 2007. B ... - [read more]
After closing for a holiday of the 12th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China on Wednesday, local stocks gained sharply at the beginning and ended low at 18, 178.05 on Thursday. The Hang Seng index went down 200.68 points, or 1.09 percent, trading between 18,780.96 and 18,053.10. Turnover totaled 68.38 billion HK dollars (8.83 billion U.S. dollars). Although the economic conditions in Chinese mainland and elsewhere seems coming up, there would be few rooms for further gains ... - [read more]
The heatwave continues in Beijing and several other northern provinces Thursday, while rainstorms drench at least half of the country. The maximum temperature reached 36 degrees Celsius Thursday in Beijing, at least 10 days after the heatwave began. The city's weather bureau said Thursday Beijing had experienced the hottest June since 1951, with the average temperature climbing3.7 degrees Celsius higher than that of last year. In June, the mercury climbed above 35 degrees ... - [read more]
Zhang Yuan, a 27-year-old ad smith, parked his Buick beside a cinema in a commercial district in western Beijing at around 7:00 p.m. Deftly taking out bundles of folding hangers and T-shirts out of the car, he set up his roadside stand. The young moonlighter has been worked for four years with a local ads company and earns a monthly salary of approximately 6,000 yuan (878.5 billion U.S. dollars). He became a part-time peddler in March. "I simply felt it's interesting to set up a ... - [read more]
China would like to work with Hungary to advance diplomatic ties, Vice President Xi Jinping said on Thursday. "We attach great importance to the relations with Hungary," Xi told Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs, hoping that the two countries would take the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties to bring bilateral relations to a new level. Hungary was one of the first countries to forge diplomatic ties with China on Oct. 6, 1949. ... - [read more]
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei left Thursday for a four-nation tour to discuss the Korean nuclear crisis, according to foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang. The four nations include Russia, U.S., Japan and the Republic of Korea(ROK). "He will exchange views with the relevant sides on the Korean nuclear issue and the situation in northeast Asia," Qin told a regular press conference. He said Wu's itinerary would be arranged in accordance with the result of the consul ... - [read more]
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday confirmed that a Chinese financial institution was in discussions with Zimbabwe on providing loans. Spokesman Qin Gang did not specify which bank or department was in talks or the value of the loans. The Chinese government supports the Zimbabwean coalition government's strive for the state's economic recovering and development and has offered some assistance within its own capability, Qin noted. Zimbabwean Prime Minister Mo ... - [read more]
The Public Security Bureau in east China's Wenzhou City announced Thursday that a police office was dismissed from his post after the bureau verified netizens' claims that he had used a police car to walk a dog. "The officer was a deputy head of the criminal detection brigade of the bureau. He has been removed from his post, and revoked his police car driving license," confirmed Wang Xiaomin, a spokeswoman of the bureau. The bureau did not give the name of the officer. But Ye Han ... - [read more]
Vice minister of Commerce Chen Jian said here Thursday China has no limit on imported chicken from the United States, and the report of such policy is untrue. The Wall Street Journal quoted Thursday James H. Sumner, president the USA Poultry and Egg Exporting Council, who heard from unnamed importers in China that China would stop issuing import permits on the product from July 1. Vice minister Chen made the remarks at a press conference on international investment and trade here ... - [read more]
China will continue to develop bilateral and multilateral agricultural cooperation with African countries and boost the "South-South cooperation" within the framework of "Special Program for Food Security (SPFS)," Assistant Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Thursday. In an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of the 13th Africa Union (AU) Summit currently underway in Libya's seaside city of Sirte, Zhai said the agricultural cooperation between China and Africa constitutes an important par ... - [read more]
The July 9 dialogue between leadersof the Group of Eight (G8) and emerging economies will focus on the global downturn and serve to boost cooperation between the industrialized and developing countries, a senior Chinese diplomatsaid in Beijing Thursday. "We expect the 8+5 meeting will give a strong signal for further cooperation on tackling the financial crisis on the basis of the G20 summits," said vice Foreign Minister He Yafei at a briefing on President Hu Jintao's schedule. M ... - [read more]
Senior military officials of China and Nigeria pledged in Beijing on Thursday to further enhance military cooperation. The years after diplomatic ties forged between China and Nigeria has witnessed frequent high-level visits and expanding exchanges and cooperation in various fields, said Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in a meeting with visiting Nigerian Defense Minister Shettima Mustapha. Liang said peoples of China and Nigeria share a long history of friendship and the ... - [read more]
China is willing to make joint efforts with Brazil to boost bilateral strategic partnership, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said in Brasilia Wednesday. Liu Yunshan, member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and head of the CPC Central Committee Publicity Department, made the remarks when meeting with Brazil's acting president Jose Alencar Gomez da Silva. Liu said China-Brazil relations have experienced rapid development since the establishment ... - [read more]
