China's State Council Thursday issued a medical reform plan of 2009, as its first year's move of the three-year health care reform. The plan called for acceleration in building basic medical insurance system and essential drug system, and promotion on primary health care facilities and pilot reform of State-run hospitals. According to the plan, about ...
The registered unemployment rate in China's urban areas was 4.3 percent in the first half this year, Yin Chengji, spokesman of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced Friday. The figure was up from 4.2 percent at the end of 2008. As of June 30, the number of urban residents registered as jobless was 9.06 million, down 90,000 from ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed to stick to the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy in the second half year to sustain stable and relatively fast economic growth. Hu, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), made the remarks at a conference with leaders of the country's leadin...
Chinese food producers must record all the information on raw material procurement and food processing procedures and keep the record for at least two years, under a new regulation to ensure food safety. The requirement is detailed in the Regulation on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law, which was published Friday. The regulation, effectiv...
CANADIAN National Railway (CN) has reported a second quarter net profit fell 15.6 per cent to C$387 million (US$350.25 million), owing to the global downturn in freight volumes. A statement from the Montreal-based company said that revenues declined 15 per cent year on year to C$1,781 million, with carloads shrinking 22 per cent to C$928,000, and revenue ...
A TRADE finance poll conducted by Singapore, which chairs this year's APEC meetings, has found that 10 out of 18 APEC economies surveyed expect the trade financing situation to ease over the next six months. "Nevertheless, the situation still bears watching given continued uncertainty in credit conditions," said the authors of the survey. The results wer...
Chinese equities closed higher on Thursday to a new 13-month high, led by financial and property shares. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed at 3,328.49 points, up 31.88 points, or 0.97 percent. The Shenzhen Component Index closed at 13,521.65 points, up 168.44 points, or 1.26 percent. Combined turnover shrank to 298.69 billion yuan ($43.73 bi...
China will ask the United States to protect its investment assets at the first strategic and economic dialogue next week, a Chinese finance official said Wednesday. "I believe the Chinese delegation, especially Vice Premier Wang Qishan, will explicitly raise the hope that the United States should make responsible economic policies, including financial and...
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