The State Council has identified seven sectors including green technology (which encompasses energy-saving and environmental protection), new-generation information technology, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, alternative energy production
The 18 steel companies in Hebei Province have been required to shut down on September 5 to reduce carbon emissions. The closure will last anywhere from 20 days to a month. Aside from the steel companies, local coke plants and mining companies have also be
In response to reports that the resumes of over 200 pilots were forged, an anonymous high-level executive from an airline company admitted that many airmen released from military services have no letters of recommendation while others have an inadequate f
The State Council has issued its Guidelines to Promote State-owned Enterprise Mergers. The Guidelines provide preferential taxes, financial, capital and land policies for mergers between state-owned enterprises. Twelve ministerial agencies, including the
The State Council and the Central Military Commission have joint-released Rules on Radio Control which authorizes the central government to restrict or block the radio signals across the country during an emergency. The new regulation, issued on September
The reporters with the Guangzhou Daily investigating the property market of 30 cities found that property sales in 26 cities have increased from that of the same period last year. The sales growth rates of 11 cities have exceeded 50%. Property sales in Be
Xie Yalong, former director of China’s National Football Management Center, is in the custody of the Beijing police. This is the second time Xie has been detained after Nan Yong, another former director of the National Football Management Director, was ar
Wang Mingzhen, the first female professor with Tsinghua University, died on August 24 in Beijing. She was one of the pioneering female physicists in China and is referred to as the "Madame Curie of China".
Chinese President Hu Jintao stated yesterday at a celebration of Shenzhen's 30th anniversary that the central government will continue to support the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to explore and experiment with new development methods.
Qin Gang, the former spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been named the new appointed envoy at the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom. Qin Gang was also the former deputy director of the ministry’s information office.
Beijing has applied to implement the National Emission Standard V for motor vehicles early, said Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing’s environmental protection bureau, at the “China Car Industry Development International Forum (2010)” yesterday.
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Due to carbon-emissions caused by motor vehicles, around one fifth of Chinese cities are suffering from severe air pollution. The air quality in over one third of 113 key cities is below the second-tier of China’s national standards, according to Liu Zhiq
After several financial institutions criticized China's fuel pricing mechanism as ineffective, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has responded by calling the calculation methods of its critics “incorrect”. An official from the energy r
Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Leaders (2010) which will be held on September 13 in Tianjin.
According to an anonymous source from a state-owned bank, 40% of all loans given to property developers are due by the end of this year, adding pressure on developers. If their sales volume is insufficient in September and October, they will suffer a seve
China has produced and sold 10.91 million and 9.45 million cars, respectively, from January to August, up 35.45% and 31.53% from the same period of last year according to statistics released by the China Automobile Technology & Research Center.
The project of transmitting the natural gas from Sichuan Province to eastern China began its commercial operation on August 31, lifting the market shares of Sinopec significantly and ending Petrol China’s monopoly in the natural gas market.
Driven by the rising prices of agricultural products, many financial institutions predict China’s CPI will be somewhere between 3.4% and 3.6% in August, exceeding July levels of 3.3%. China is expected to face continuous inflation pressures in the coming
