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| The last time car owners were allowed to have their personalized six-digit license plates, the policy was abused with such choices as "FBI-001". Yesterday, the policy was reintroduced, and car owners showed a lot more restraint in their choices. Many who queued outside the offices of local transport authorities said they were concentrating on lucky and favorite numbers. "With the new regulations, I honestly don't think we will face the kind of embarrassment in 2002," Zhang Jingchun, spo ... Personalized car license plates go on sale Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:45:34 +0800 |
| Guangdong's provincial capital has adopted an iron-fisted policy in dealing with heavily polluting factories. The city has shut down more than 100 polluting factories since May, when the municipal environmental protection bureau and supervision bureau jointly urged 146 such firms in eight districts or counties to reduce emissions by the end of October. The scale of the blacklist is unprecedented in China. Zheng Zewen, a division director of the municipal environmental watchdog, believed ... Guangzhou factory policy sees results Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:52 +0800 |
| Beichuan, one of the counties in Sichuan province most devastated by the May 12 earthquake, has formulated an ambitious 19.7 billion yuan ($2.89 billion) tourism restoration plan, local officials said. A lynchpin of the plan is transforming the province into an internationally renowned destination for travelers to learn about the Qiang and Dayu ethnic minorities' cultures within three to five years. It will also reinvent its former county seat into a national earthquake museum, Zhang Gu, h ... Beichuan unveils big tourism plan Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:18 +0800 |
| Overseas Chinese fund or play a hand in the funding of almost half of the 28,000 foreign-invested companies in Shanghai, making indelible contributions to the city's development. At a recent gathering to mark the 30th anniversary of the country's reform and opening up, people of Chinese birth or descent who live abroad were praised for their deep love of their motherland. In the years between 1978 and 1995, the local government approved around 13,600 foreign investment projects. They dr ... Overseas Chinese invest in Shanghai Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:34:45 +0800 |
| China is mulling a plan to assess provincial environmental performances, according to the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP). CAEP is cooperating with Yale and Columbia universities on the design of an evaluation system for environmental performances at provincial levels, Cao Zhiguo, the program's liaison official, told China Daily yesterday. "China has already set criteria to determine if the counties, cities and provinces are ecologically sound, but remains nascent on envi ... Broader environment checks on table Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:33:39 +0800 |
| Hong Kong shares dropped 5 percent yesterday to close below 17000 points for the first time in more than two years, as China stocks sank despite fresh attempts by regulators to prop up the mainland market. The decline gathered force in the afternoon session as investors were on their guard ahead of Today's holiday in Hong Kong. "There are no rules in this market, just a whole lot of uncertainty, which makes it difficult to predict where the decline will stop," said Howard Gorges, vice-chai ... Stocks slump despite regulators' efforts Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:31:43 +0800 |
| Ping An Insurance (Group) Company's plan to make provisions for impairment in its investment in beleaguered Belgian financial services company Fortis will probably result in a 2 billion yuan loss on the company's third quarter report, industry analysts have said. "The insurer's whole year performance is likely to hover around the break-even point," said Wang Xiaogang, a senior analyst with Shanghai-based Orient Securities. Fortis-related investment losses hit 15.7 billion yuan in book valu ... Ping An may lose 2b yuan on Fortis investment Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:30:22 +0800 |
| Guan Sheng Yuan Food Co said yesterday it has resumed production of the popular White Rabbit candy. The company stopped domestic sales of the candy last month because of suspected melamine contamination. A new supply of safe, high-quality powdered milk is now being used, the company said. The milk and finished products will undergo tests by the Shanghai Quality & Technical Supervision and the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Bureau, it said. The company, however, declined ... New White Rabbit candy awaits tests Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:30:20 +0800 |
| SHANGHAI: The weeklong National Day holiday proved profitable for the city's tourism sector, which reaped record revenue despite concern over the impact of typhoon Jangmi. This year's Golden Week brought nearly 5 million tourists to the city, pushing revenue up to 3.8 billion yuan, a 15 percent increase year-on-year, according to statistics from Shanghai municipal tourism administration. Yao Shuoye, a spokesman for the municipal tourism administration, said the growth was due to pent-up de ... Holiday proves golden for tourism Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:29:29 +0800 |
| Police have detained six more people in the country's contaminated milk scandal amid increasing efforts to restore public trust in domestic dairy products. The suspects were caught in Hohhot in the country's main dairy-producing area of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after allegedly selling and mixing the industrial chemical melamine into raw milk, the city government said in a notice on its website yesterday. The detentions were made during an investigation into melamine contaminati ... Six more detained over melamine Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:29:24 +0800 |
| China National Bluestar Group Corp (Bluestar) yesterday said it completed a stake transfer with Blackstone Group, in which the US private equity paid $600 million for a 20 percent stake. Blackstone agreed on the deal in September last year. The latest move is its first major investment in China. Bluestar is a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina), the country's leading chemicals manufacturer. Bluestar was founded 24 years ago as a major manufacturer of new material and ... Blackstone completes 20% stake purchase in Bluestar Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:28:37 +0800 |
| Property transactions in China's major cities hit a record low over the past National Day holiday as more potential homebuyers adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Statistics from the Beijing Real Estate Transaction website revealed that the average number of daily deals over the holiday week fell 72 percent year-on-year in the capital to 69 units, making it the worst period so far this year for the property sector. Shanghai Autumn Real Estate Expo, regarded as a barometer of the industry, att ... Property deals hit record low Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:20 +0800 |
| Four years ago when his wife died, Wang Zhende, 88, decided to rent out his apartment and moved into the Quyang Neighborhood Retirement Home in the north of Shanghai. Wang has been living with his 77-year-old roommate, Ren Zeru, in a 15-sq-m room on the third floor of the home. The monthly rent rose from 800 yuan ($117) to 950 yuan this year. Every day, Wang gets up at about 5 am and practices tai chi. "Daytime passes quickly and I go to bed at about 6 pm," Wang said. With an aging p ... Putting aside space for an aging population Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:25:12 +0800 |
| The announced removal of China Netcom from the list of Hang Seng Index constituent stocks took effect after market close on Monday. The merger between China Unicom and China Netcom, recently approved by their shareholders, was an ongoing Chinese mainland telecommunications restructuring that was expected to create one of the three integrated services providers. The listing of China Netcom will be withdrawn on Oct. 15, subject to the expected approval of the merger in due court he ... China Netcom removed from Hang Seng Index constituent after merger Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:18:34 +0800 |
| Chinese stocks plummeted yesterday amid worries about the spreading global fallout from the US bad-debt crisis as investors caught up on developments following the week-long National Day holiday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 5.2 percent, or 120.05 points, to 2173.74. The Shenzhen Component Index was down 4.52 percent at 7217. The combined turnover on the two bourses shrank 25.8 percent from the previous trading day, Sept 26, to reach 68.9 billion yuan ($10.1 billion) yesterd ... Stocks plunge amid global financial woes Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:18:35 +0800 |
| The Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. (Chalco), China's largest producer of the metal, said its unaudited net profit may fall more than 50 percent in the third quarter of the year. The slump was blamed on the rising energy and materials costs and the declining aluminum prices due to the U.S. subprime crisis and the global economic environment, Chalco said in a statement filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange late Monday. Its net income in the third quarter last year was 2.043 billion yu ... Chalco forecasts over 50% slump in Q3 profit Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:16:44 +0800 |
| A draft regulation to raise standards and improve supervision of domestic dairy products was approved in principle by the Cabinet yesterday amid a nationwide milk contamination scandal. "The recent safety issue of dairy products, triggered by the Sanlu infant formula incident, shows the country is still weak in the production supervision process," said Premier Wen Jiabao, who presided over the executive meeting of the State Council. "We must learn from it and control the whole process from ... Dairy sector regulation beefed up Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:17:10 +0800 |
| Chinese government on Monday ordered its three domestic telecom operators to share and co-build infrastructure to avoid repeat construction in the wake of industry restructuring. The move would erode the competitive edge of China Mobile, the nation's largest mobile operator, as its smaller rivals could access its wider network. A circular jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commissi ... Chinese telecom companies ordered to share, co-build infrastructure Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:15:58 +0800 |
| "The reason China is able to change the world is basically because China changes herself first," said Li Cheng, a senior fellow at the U.S. think tank, the Brookings Institution, during a recent interview with Xinhua. Since China's reform and open-up policy was carried out about 30 years ago, great changes, including changes in China's economy, politics, culture, society and even ideology, have taken place, Li said. A major characteristic of the reform and open-up policy is to pr ... U.S. scholar hails great changes in China caused by reform, open-up policy Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:32:10 +0800 |
| At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake that jolted a county near Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Monday, the rescue headquarters confirmed early Tuesday morning. The previous "at least 30" death toll was inaccurate due to unauthoritative sources and needs further check. Rescuers arrived at Yangyi Village, the worst-hit site in Gedar Township of Damxung County, late Monday night after repairing the road once paralyzed in the 6.6-mag ... Earthquake jolts area near Lhasa, killing at least 9 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:08:33 +0800 |
| China's seismological authorities will send experts to an earthquake area in Tibet after a 6.6-magnitude quake killed at least nine on Monday. The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) has launched a level III emergency response plan after the strong quake jolted Damxung County near Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, at 4:30p.m. (Beijing Time) on Monday. The administration has asked its monitoring and forecasting division, disaster relief division, the China Earthquak ... China launches emergency response after Tibet quake Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:04:48 +0800 |
| Nine people were confirmed dead in a strong earthquake that jolted a county in Tibet on Monday, the rescue headquarters said at the epicenter. The previous "at least 30" death toll was inaccurate due to unauthoritative sources and needed further check. Rescuers arrived at Yangyi Village, the worst-hit site in Gedar Township of Damxung County, late Monday night after repairing the road once paralyzed in the 6.6-magnitude tremor. At least 147 houses in Yangyi and villages i ... Local authorities confirm nine deaths in Tibet quake Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:04:14 +0800 |
| Eight people were killed on their way back from a wedding ceremony after their boat capsized in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities confirmed Monday evening. Rescuers have recovered the bodies of all the victims, aged between five to 66, as of Monday afternoon after continuous searching efforts. The accident happened at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, when the fishing boat from Benjie village of Puding County, Anshun City capsized in the Yelang Lake. Those on th ... Boat capsizes in SW China, killing eight Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:03:41 +0800 |
| The announced removal of China Netcom from the list of Hang Seng Index constituent stocks took effect after market close on Monday. The merger between China Unicom and China Netcom, recently approved by their shareholders, was an ongoing Chinese mainland telecommunications restructuring that was expected to create one of the three integrated services providers. The listing of China Netcom will be withdrawn on Oct. 15, subject to the expected approval of the merger in due court he ... China Netcom removed from Hang Seng Index constituent after merger Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:51:41 +0800 |
| A host of senior Chinese leaders turned out on Monday to bid a final farewell to Han Guang, former discipline inspection chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC), who was cremated at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing. Han, former executive secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, died of illness at the age of 96 on Sept. 27 in Beijing. President Hu Jintao, top legislator Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao, and state and Party leaders Jia Qinglin, Li Cha ... Body of former senior Chinese Communist cadre cremated Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:50:47 +0800 |
| More than 178 million Chinese traveled within the country during the National Day holiday week, up 22.1 percent on the same period last year, according to the China National Tourism Administration and the National Bureau of Statistics. The holiday, known as a "golden week", ran from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Tourism revenue during the week amounted to 79.6 billion yuan (11.65 billion U.S. dollars), u ... More than 178 mln Chinese travel during "Golden Week" holiday Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:52:25 +0800 |
| More than 178 million Chinese traveled within the country during the National Day holiday week, up 22.1 percent on the same period last year, according to the China National Tourism Administration and the National Bureau of Statistics. The holiday, known as a "golden week", ran from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Tourism revenue during the week amounted to 79.6 billion yuan (11.65 billion U.S. dollars), u ... More than 178 mln Chinese travel during "Golden Week" holiday Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:11:23 +0800 |
| At least 30 people were killed in a 6.6-magnitude earthquake which jolted a county under Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, the local government said. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ... Quake kills at least 30 in Tibet Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:10:40 +0800 |
| A major railway connecting Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, with Guangzhou, the southern Guangdong Province capital, is expected to begin construction on Oct. 13, a local official said on Monday. The 857 km electrified railway, co-invested by the Railway Ministry, Guizhou and Guangdong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is expected to be operational in 2012, said Wang Tongjun, deputy head of Chengdu Railway Bureau, which administrates railways in Sichu ... Railway to be constructed to connect SW China to booming areas Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:10:04 +0800 |
| An Indian man fell from the fourth floor of a newly-opened Marks and Spencer department store in Shanghai on Sunday evening, police said on Monday. The accident occurred at around 9:30 p.m. when Shah Harshit, 24,fell from an escalator on the fourth floor of the store in Nanjing West Road, a Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau official said. Harshit was shopping with friends in the mall that day. The mall was opened on Oct. 2 and was the first mall of the British retailer M ... India man falls to death in Shanghai Marks and Spencer Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:09:14 +0800 |
| Taiwan's former intelligence chief Yeh Sheng-mao was detained after appearing at a court hearing in Taipei on Monday morning for hiding documents allegedly implicating a money-laundering case related to ex-Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian. The local Taipei court was holding the first public hearing of Yeh's money laundering cover-up case, an accusation he denied at the hearing. He insisted he was just performing his duty as director of Taiwan's investigation bureau when he passed rel ... Taiwan's ex-intelligence chief detained for alleged money-laundering cover-up Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:08:07 +0800 |
| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd, in a phone conversation on Monday, exchanged opinions on relations between their two countries as well as the international financial crisis and climate change. Wen spoke positively of the development of the mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Australia. He said China is willing to work with Australia to intensify coordination and cooperation, and meet the complicated global challenges in a bid to ... Chinese, Australian premiers discuss relations, international issues Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:05:37 +0800 |
| Chinese cities may have some of the best solutions to be found anywhere in the world at a time when the global financial crisis has left everybody worrying about their housing financing and mortgages in the United States and other developed countries. It is not by coincidence that this year for the first time, the highest award conferred by the United Nations system in this field-- the Habitat Scroll of Honour Special Citation -- goes not to an outstanding individual, but to a Chinese ci ... Chinese scoops UN awards for its harmonious cities Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:05:01 +0800 |
| China and Vietnam will open a direct transport service between their respective border cities of Pingxiang and Lang Son by year end, according to a Chinese official on Monday. Irregular shuttle buses, government vehicles and private cars would be allowed to pass the shared Friendship Gate Port and drive in each other's city, said Song Jian, director of the International Road Transport Administration under the China Friendship Gate Port. Freight trucks could only drive into the de ... China, Vietnam to open direct transport between border cities Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:04:02 +0800 |
| Several leading Chinese steel mills are set to cut production to cope with the pressure of weak demand hanging over their iron-smelting furnaces. Shougang Group and three other big domestic iron and steel manufacturers will slash 20 percent of their production this month amid slack domestic demand and dropping steel prices, according to Monday's China Securities Journal. These major steel makers included Hebei Iron and Steel Group, Shandong Iron and Steel Group and Anyang Iron an ... Four Chinese steel mills set to cut production on slump demands Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:02:46 +0800 |
| Calling China's dairy production and circulation "chaotic" and admitting government supervision "gravely absent," the State Council is planning an overhaul and recovery of the nation's dairy industry. The State Council, China's Cabinet, held an executive meeting Monday on the nation's milk powder industry and approved draft regulations on quality control for dairy products. State Councilors on Monday heard that the authorities had conducted across-the-board checks on liquid milk ... China's Cabinet lays groundwork for dairy industry recovery Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:59:14 +0800 |
| A 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Damxung County in Lhasa, the Tibet Autonomous Region capital, at 4:30 p.m. Monday, the State Seismological Bureau (SSB) said. The epicenter was at 29.8 degrees north and 90.3 degrees east, 82 km away from Lhasa. Tremors were felt in Lhasa, according to local sources. The Tibet seismological department sent a team to the quake-hit area. There was no immediate report of casualties. Xinhua reporters in Lhasa saw no damage to the city's buil ... Earthquake jolts area near Lhasa, Tibet Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:44:07 +0800 |
| China's capital readopted a program on Monday allowing car owners to have personalized license plates, but clamping down on the flashy and crude picks such as "UFO", "SEX 001" and "FBI 007" produced by some people six years ago. A Beijing resident became the city's luckiest car owner when he secured the plate reading "NV8888" at 8:30 a.m. Monday after queuing for three days with his family at a car registration center of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau. He was followed by ... Beijing restarts personal license plates Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:43:10 +0800 |
| Four people have gone on trial here for smuggling more than 100,000 kg of silver from Hong Kong into the Chinese mainland and evading nearly 55 million yuan in taxes (about 8 million U.S. dollars), a court source said on Monday. Guo Bailiang and Huang Zhiqiang, both Hong Kong long-haul drivers, were accused of transporting the silver, hidden in secret compartments of container trucks, to an auto repair garage in Shenzhen in the southern Guangdong Province. Hu Yunpeng, owner of th ... Four on trial for smuggling 100,000 kg of silver into Chinese mainland Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:41:22 +0800 |
| This autumn was a season of revelry and national pride for the Chinese. Not yet recovered from the spectacular summer Olympics in August, the whole nation had something else to celebrate as its first taikonaut waved a Chinese flag in a maiden spacewalk. Through the live broadcast of the mission, tens of millions of Chinese saw, at around 4:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Sept. 27, Zhai Zhigang, strenuously open the hatch of Shenzhou-7. You could hear the wheezing sound as he floated around in ... Changes and challenges with China's 30 years reform and opening up Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:42:24 +0800 |
| Tibet's tourist arrivals plunged 36 percent year-on-year during China's recent National Day holiday when 257,000 people visited the "Roof of the world." Only 110,900 tourists stayed overnight in Tibet, a drop of 41.5 percent from a year ago; one-day tourists were 146,100, down 31.1 percent, according to Zhanor, a deputy chief of the region's tourism department. The tourism sector of the plateau region generated 81.49 million yuan (about 11.88 million U.S. dollars) in total earnin ... Fewer tourists visit Tibet during National Day holiday Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:54:55 +0800 |
| A man killed three people and injured four others during a family dispute in Shenzhen Monday. The man was captured on site by police who received reports of the attack, said an officer with the local police bureau. He stabbed his wife first, injuring her after a quarrel at about 1 a.m. and then went to a nearby grocery where he killed the owner and his wife. He continued the attack by killing a woman who was walking past the store. Three others were also slashed in the st ... Deadly knife attack in south China Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:34:53 +0800 |
| "I will produce a movie depicting the great changes in China over the past 30 years," said Ryoko Nakano in an exclusive interview with Xinhua. Nakano, who acted the part of "Mayumi" in "Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare" (or "Hunting Down" in Chinese translation>), has become a household name in China since 1979 when the movie premiered and created a widespread sensation there. Over the past 30 years, the movie, like an unbreakable bond, has been a link between China and Nakano. She ... Nakano says to produce movie about China's reform and opening up Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:33:32 +0800 |
| Hong Kong stocks nose-dived 878. 64 points, or 4.97 percent, to close below the 17,000 mark on Monday, as the passage of the 700-billion U.S. dollar bailout plan failed to lift the market sentiments around the world. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 526.19 points, or 2.98 percent, to open at 17,156.21 on Monday and moved between 17,241. 78 and 16,790.86. The index widened its losses in the afternoon to close at 16,803.76. Analysts had previously said they expected further uncer ... Hong Kong stocks tumble 4.97% amid global financial worries Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:31:55 +0800 |
| China National Chemical Corporation(ChemChina) announced Monday that China Bluestar (Group) Co. Ltd., its joint venture in Beijing with the Blackstone Group, has officially launched. Bluestar, one of ChemChina's subsidiary company groups, will be transformed into a Sino-foreign joint venture. U.S.-based Blackstone is putting 600 million U.S. dollars into the project for a 20 percent stake in the new company. ChemChina and Blackstone signed the cooperation agreement in September 2 ... ChemChina, Blackstone launch Beijing joint venture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:31:21 +0800 |
| In recent days, the large-scale survey "China in the eyes of the world " was released in Beijing. The main recipients of the survey are foreigners who came to China during the Olympic Games. A detailed questionnaire on their impression of China and their awareness of Chinese culture, the Olympic experience, as well as impression of China's economy and so on is given to the recipients. The survey involved recipients from more than 20 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America ... Over 60% foreigners believe China will be the world's largest economy in the next 20 years Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:08:45 +0800 |
| &$&$Video: China-EU tapping new trade opportunities&$&$ &$&$Official: China urges political will on MES issue&$&$ &$&$Official: China-EU push n ... Official: China-EU trade healthy, but risks looming Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:23:20 +0800 |
| &$&$Video: China-EU tapping new trade opportunities&$&$ &$&$Official: China-EU push new frontiers on trade&$&$ &$&$Official: China-EU trade hea ... Official: China urges political will on MES issue Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:23:25 +0800 |
| &$&$Video: China-EU tapping new trade opportunities&$&$ &$&$Official: China-EU trade healthy, but risks looming&$&$ &$&$Official: China urges p ... Official: China-EU push new frontiers on trade Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:23:11 +0800 |
| A large field containing rich deposits of rare molybdenum has been found in south China's island province of Hainan, local authorities said here. Molybdenum is a hard, silvery mineral mainly used in toughening alloy steels and softening tungsten alloys. It is used in aviation, construction and military material manufacturing industries. The proven reserves of the mine in Baoting County are estimated at 254,000 tons worth of more than 100 billion yuan (14.6 billion U.S. dollars), ... Large molybdenum mine found in south China Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:28:35 +0800 |
| China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd.) announced Monday it had found a new oil and gas well in east China's Bohai Bay. The well, named Bozhong (BZ) 35-2-2, is located to the east of the Yellow River mouth. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3,235 meters. During the drill stem test, the well flowed at an average rate of 560 barrels of oil per day. The CNOOC Ltd. has made several oil and gas discoveries in the Bohai area this year, including wells na ... China discovers oil, gas well in Bohai Bay Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:28:06 +0800 |
| Ctrip.com, China's largest online travel service, and the Nielsen Company, the global leading market research company, jointly issued the list of national popular tourist cities during the National Day Golden Week on October 5. The top ten cities with the most out-going travelers during the National Holiday this year are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Chongqing and Nanjing. And the top ten cities which received the most tourists are Beijing, Hangzhou ... Beijing becomes most popular tourist city during Golden Week Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:56:38 +0800 |
| Travel volume grew steadily during the National Holiday golden week, the first long holiday in 2008 after the implementation of new holiday system, according to report released on the evening of October 5 by National Holiday Tourism Work Leading Group Office. From September 29 to October 5, 119 tourist resorts in the National Holiday Tourism Forecasting System received a total of 18,291,000 tourists, up by 13.2 percent than last year, and ticket sales grew by 16.4 percent. According to th ... Retail sales during National Holiday golden week reaches over 420 billion Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:21:54 +0800 |
| The Communist Party of China (CPC) made a major policy decision on reform and opening-up at the Third Plenum of its 11 CPC Central Committee held in late 1978 and opened a new historical period for China's reform and opening-up. In the last three decades, earth-shaking changes have taken place in China, and many foreign friends have also personally witnessed this epoch through their direct or indirect contact or engagement with the country. To this end, People's Daily Online sponsors the soli ... Notice of soliciting articles on 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:23:37 +0800 |
| Chinese shares fall in the morning session Monday, after big losses on Wall Street. The Shanghai Composite Index dropped 80.7 points, or 3.52 percent, to 2,213.08. The Shenzhen Component Index fell 263.62 points, or 3.49 percent, to 7,295.65. Banking shares fell across the board, with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest lender, shedding 3.91 percent to 4.18 yuan. China Merchants Bank fell 6.7 percent to 16.44 yuan and Bank of Communications lost 5.8 ... Chinese shares fall 3.52% in morning session Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:29:45 +0800 |
| Three decades after the advent of its reforms and opening up, China has become another engine driving the world economy in addition to the United States, UN Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang has said. China has enjoyed 30 years of continuous and rapid development, expanding its economic aggregate by nearly 15 times and its foreign trade more than 100 times, a sustained fast growth rare in modern world history, Sha told Xinhua in a recent interview in his office at the UN headquarters in ... Deputy UN chief: China becoming engine for world economy Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:15:56 +0800 |
| The State Council, China's Cabinet, is launching an investigation into a landslide that killed 44 people in the northern Shanxi Province in August. A 49-member team, headed by State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) deputy director Wang Dexue, consists of senior officials from the Ministry of Supervision, Ministry of Land and Resources, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Shanxi provincial government. The landslide toppled a waste dump of a local iron mine ... Central gov't investigates deadly N China landslide Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:18:42 +0800 |