At the conclusion of an inspection tour Monday, China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin said he wants to speed up the building of an economic zone in Fujian province on the western side of the Taiwan Straits. Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top political advisory body, said the econ...
Former Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Chen Duqing, told Xinhua Monday that the two sides have huge potential to expand trade. He made the comment as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began his 3-day visit to Beijing Monday to enhance economic ties. Bilateral trade rose 63.2 percent year on year to $48.98 billion in 2008, according to data rel...
China's national pension fund, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), is seeking Cabinet approval to invest billions of dollars in foreign private equity funds this year, sources told Reuters on Monday. The NSSF is working on a formal proposal with the finance ministry and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, which also supervises the p...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Beijing's first diagnosed A/H1N1 flu patient in hospital on Sunday. Wen had a voice and video meeting with the 18-year-old female, surnamed Liu, who returned from the United States and was confirmed to have the flu Saturday, at the Beijing Ditan Hospital. The patient is in a stable condition with a normal body tempera...
Top military brass have been told that no luxury or hedonism will be tolerated the warning issued by the Central Military Commission (CMC) less than a year after a five-year anti-corruption campaign was launched last October. Military insiders told China Daily the directive, issued over the weekend, is a strong signal to senior officers to stop extravagan...
The first batch of China-donated tents in humanitarian aid to civilians displaced by the conflict in northern Sri Lanka arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo on Sunday. Sri Lanka's Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe, and China's Ambassador to Sri Lanka...
The mainland will urge businesses to visit Taiwan to discuss investment plans amid efforts to help the island cope with the global economic downturn, the mainland's Taiwan affairs director Wang Yi said Sunday. The Commerce Ministry and Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council will jointly issue a circular on procedures for mainland businesses should th...
The central government has appointed Party publicity official Jiao Li the new president of China Central Television (CCTV), it was reported Sunday. Jiao, the vice-minister for the publicity department of the Communist Party's Central Committee, replaces Zhao Huayong, 61, who stepped down as head of the State broadcaster because he had reached the officia...
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