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INFLATION: Over Half of China's Urban Residents Consider Current Prices "Hard to Accept"; 51 percent of the urban residents who took part in a People's Bank of China survey in the first quarter of 2010, consider current prices as "high and hard to accept." The proportion of respondents who consider prices are too expensive, is the highest registered since 1999. The survey also revealed that over 70 percent of the urban residents feel that current housing prices as "too high and difficu...; The Beijing News | 2010-03-17

FISCAL BUDGET: China's Fiscal Revenue Rose 32.9% in the First Two Months of 2010; China collected 1.36 trillion yuan in national fiscal revenue in the first two months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 32.9 percent or 336.3 billion yuan.; Xinhua News Agency | 2010-03-16

HOUSING: Statistics Reveal Continued Growth of Beijing Housing Prices; The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics yesterday published statistics on housing price movements over the first two months of this year. The statistics reveal that the average price for yet-to-be completed commercial residential properties within Beijing's fourth ring road has climbed to 31,220 yuan per square meter and that for yet-to-be-completed commercial residential properties beyond the ...; The Beijing News | 2010-03-16

ENVIRONMENT: 250 Children Sickened by Lead Poisoning in Hunan Province; According to data revealed by the Jiahe county government in Hunan province, as of February 24, 250 children from three separate villages, all of them less than 14 years old, have been diagnosed with lead poisoning caused by pollution from local factories.; The Beijing News | 2010-03-16

WORK SAFETY: 7 Killed in Construction Site Collapse in Guiyang; Seven people were killed and nineteen others were injured in an accident that took place on the construction site of an international conference center in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou province, on March 14.; Xinhua News Agency | 2010-03-16

CORRUPTION: Supreme People's Procuratorate: 2,670 Officials Investigated in 2009; In a work report delivered to the country's NPC yesterday, Cao Jianming, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, announced that 2,670 officials at or above county level, had been investigated on suspicion of involvement in criminal activity in 2009. Of this number, 204 were bureau-level officials (for instance heads of municipal-level bureaus such as education, security and tax) ...; The Beijing News | 2010-03-12

LANDSLIDE: 26 People Killed in Shaanxi Landslide; Xinhua reports that 26 people are confirmed dead after a landslide occurred in the very early hours of Wednesday morning in Shaanxi province.; Xinhua News Agency | 2010-03-12

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China's CPI Up 2.7% in February: China's CPI rose 2.7 percent in February from a year earlier.; Source:National Bureau of Statistics

NPC: Highlights of Government Work Report: The annual full session of China's National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, got under way in Beijing on Friday morning.; Source:NPC

YEAR-END SPECIAL: Year-end Special: China's Road to Recovery; A digital book tracing the economic developments that have shaped China over the past year...