Major Chinese shoe makers have urged the Chinese government to appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the European Union's (EU) approval of a 15-month extension of anti-dumping duties on Chinese leather shoes. Wang Zhentao, president of the Aokang Group, China's second largest shoemaker based in southeast Zhejiang province, said his compan...
Authorities in south China have closed a battery factory and started health checks of all children living nearby after more than 40 children were found to have excessive lead levels in their blood. Aokelai Power Co Ltd, formerly Zeliang Battery Factory, was just 30 meters from the staff quarters of Jicheng Aluminum Factory, where the children were living ...
Private investment should be allowed in any sector that government policies and regulations did not prohibit, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Sunday. Wen was speaking exclusively to Xinhua News Agency at Ziguangge building inside Zhongnanhai, an office compound of the central authorities at the heart of Beijing. Wen said the key was to build the market ...
Gold jewelry sales jumped more than 30 percent over the weekend in Beijing, as bargain shoppers swarmed the city's major jewelry stores on year-end promotions. In a collective sales campaign after international gold prices fell, stores including Caibai, Gongmei and China Gold reduced the pure gold's price by as much as 9 yuan per gram, with more Christm...
Wang Long remembers well how the toys produced by his company were almost blocked from export once because of a sudden change in toy requirements by an importing country. Now, he says he is confident about meeting the tough new standards set by importers. His company, Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture Co Ltd, a leading company in China's animation ...
A government minister who lost his job over last year's tainted baby formula scandal has been appointed deputy head of a department leading China's war on porn. Li Changjiang, 65, former head of the top quality agency, is now vice-director of the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications. He was in Jiangsu province for his first ca...
Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday that the nation will not bow to pressure from other countries to revalue the yuan because they are using the issue as a tool to curb China's development. He also cautioned against the possibility of rising inflation in the country next year and said that it's too early to say that the national economy has fully recovere...
A Shanghai deputy environmental protection official was sentenced for 11 years in jail by a court in Shanghai on Friday on bribery charges. Yan Shunjun was also deprived of political rights for two years, and received a fine of 100,000 yuan ($14,644.93). He was sentenced by the Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court. The court heard that the 63-year...
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