China's Ministry of Commerce said Saturday it will start a sunset review of its five-year anti-dumping duties on phenol imports from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States and Taiwan. The review, beginning Sunday, will evaluate the effectiveness and continued need for duties on imports of phenol, also known as carbolic acid, which is chiefly u...
China Customs has said the total value of imports and exports in its specially-supervised areas, mainly bonded zones, were up 17 percent year-on-year to almost 300 billion U.S. dollars in 2008. Exports grew 21.7 percent to 152.6 billion U.S. dollars and imports rose 12.2 percent to 146.9 billion U.S. dollars. The total value of imports and exports...
China's spending enthusiasm over the Lunar New Year holiday seemed undimmed by the global financial crisis, figures from the Ministry of Commerce showed Saturday. Retail sales rose 13.8 percent to 290 billion yuan (42.4 billion U.S. dollars), from 255 billion yuan over last year's week-long Lunar New Year holiday, or Spring Festival. The robust spe...
China's economy is sending out mixed signals, figures released on Thursday showed, with the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) decelerating to the lowest pace in years, while several other indicators showing signs of recovery. The country's GDP, the most widely watched measure of its economic strength, grew 6.8 percent from a year earlier in the fo...
First it miraculously survived the May 12 Sichuan earthquake after 36 days under the debris. Then it was given a human name, adopted by China's largest private museum and received a decade's worth of insurance. Now, the all-famous "Strong Pig" is back in the spotlight by topping an online poll of 10 animals that moved China in 2008. Zhu Jianqiang, w...
Unlike in recent years, Beijinger Bai Meng did not receive any bonus from her boss this year. But the researcher with an American-owned chemical firm in Beijing still said she would spend the last day before the Spring Festival at one of the capital's largest supermarkets and splurge on ingredients for the traditional family reunion feast on the eve of...
The majority of Chinese people are still confident of the country's development prospect in spite of the global economic downturn, a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics said. More than 80 percent of the 10,000 people polled in 18 cities and 20 counties said they expect the country to maintain a steady and fairly fast economic growth despite the...
China Friday voiced its active support to the new chairman of the Group of 77 (G-77) and vowed to work closely with the international body to promote the common development in the world. The statement as Zhang Yesui, the Chinese permanent representative to the United Nations, was speaking at the G-77 chairmanship hand-over ceremony, at which Sudan take...
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