Double figure economic growth is still being predicted for the northeastern province of Jilin, despite the economic meltdown that has afflicted much of the rest of the world. Han Changfu, governor of Jilin, made the announcement at a recent conference where he outlined a number of national and regional initiatives aimed at boosting growth in the province, o...
Background: milestones of China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement In November 2003, China and Pakistan signed the Preferential Trade Arrangement. In October 2004, the two countries launched the joint research on free trade agreement. In April 2005 the two sides singed the Early Harvest Program. In December 2005, China-Pakistan early harvest preferential tar...
Four thousand five hundred kilograms of potatoes will be exported to Germany at the price of 1.5 USD per kilogram, marking the first instance of potato exports from China to Europe, according to news from Ningxia Daily. Ma Shengke, an official of the Xingxia Guyuan Potato Shipping Association, said relevant European enterprises and experts he had previo...
China's imports and exports of copper (including unwrought copper and copper products) went down 4.3 percent year-on-year to 3.257 million tonnes in 2008, as financial crisis had bitten into demand both at home and abroad, the General Administration of Customs said on Saturday. The total included 2.637 million tonnes of imports, down 5.1 percent,...
China's external trade in new- and high-tech products amounted to 754.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2008, a growth of 8.6 percent on the previous year, the General Administration of Customs said on Saturday. The growth rate was 12.6 percentage points below the year-earlier level. The total trade included 339.2 billion U.S. dollars in import value, up 3.5 p...
China saw export of high-energy-consuming products down year-on-year by a big margin in 2008, as government efforts to restrict foreign sales of such goods for environmental protection purposes had paid off. The products include rolled steel, iron alloy, steel billet, pig iron, aluminum, copper, cement and chemical fertilizer. The General Administration...
Organizer of China's leading trade fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, said Friday that greater efforts will be made to woo buyers from emerging markets to ensure high buyers' attendance to the fair amid global financial crisis. "Apart from buyers from traditional target markets such as Europe, the U.S. and Japan, we are making bigger effo...
Hong Kong was set to establish itself as a wine trading and distribution center in Asia, as part of an effort to build stronger international relations to lessen the impact of the global economic crisis, a government press release said Friday. According to the press release from the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Reg...
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