DONGGUAN, Guangdong : Factories are still using child labor despite an investigation that found just one underage worker in the city, an expert says. The Sanfu Electronic Co in Tangxia town employed an underage boy last October, according to the second-quarter investigation by the Dongguan labor bureau. But Liu Kaiming, executive director of...
Industrial output of China 's light industry grew 10.4 percent year-on-year in May, 0.6 percentage points higher than April's growth rate, and the industry's total output in the first five months this year increased 8.8 percent year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The food processing related sectors remained on the rise...
China 's national property climate index, which reflects overall conditions in the sector, rose 0.61 percent to 96.55 last month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. It is the third consecutive month, since April, that the index has seen month-on-month growth, suggesting a rebound in the sector. The index had been falli...
Executives from all 16 Chinese steel mills participating in iron ore price talks this year have been bribed by Rio Tinto employees, an industry insider claimed Tuesday, amid reports that the government is considering invalidating 20 iron ore import licenses to regulate the chaotic ore import business. The startling claim comes amid a widening probe o...
The European Union (EU) is eager to strengthen dialogue with China in order to thrash out an agreement on climate change ahead of the massive international meeting on the issue set for Copenhagen in December. Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, is on a week-long visit to Beijing with ...
Luxury apartment sales in China 's big cities saw significant growth in the second quarter, mainly due to increased purchases by overseas residents. Statistics put out by the Beijing Real Estate Transaction website showed that among the capital's top 30 most expensive residential projects, 993 units were sold in the second quarter, up 100 percen...
After the first procurement delegation notched up deals worth billions of US dollars in early June, the second group from the mainland is focusing on Taiwan's consumer goods. More than 70 mainland companies, mostly large department stores, bargained heatedly Monday with about 340 Taiwan business representatives over deals mainly involving food, drinks, g...
China's central bank official has called on the country's financial institutions to closely monitor new trends in the economy and improve financial support for fighting the economic downturn. "The domestic and overseas economic and financial situation that we are facing is undergoing unprecedented complicated changes," said Li Dongrong, assistant govern...
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