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Obsolete capacity elimination work embarked on outdated textile machinery first (03/04/2010)

3/4/2010 10:33:00 AM

According to the National Textile Restructuring and Revitalizing Program, by the year 2011, over 7.5 billion meters of severely outdated capacity in dyeing and finishing industry with high energy and water consumption must be eliminated, accounting for 15% of overall industry capacity. 2.3 million to…

Karl Mayer Celebrates 100,000th Machine Milestone (03/04/2010)

3/4/2010 10:26:00 AM

Warp-knitting machinery manufacturer Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH, Germany, recently celebrated the occasion of the 100,000th machine rolling off its production line. Before the HKS 4 EL tricot machine was delivered to the customer -- Taiwan-based Houndey Co. Ltd. -- it was decorated and sen…

Toho Tenax Introduces New Carbon Fiber Prepreg Fabric (03/04/2010)

3/4/2010 10:22:00 AM

Japan-based Toho Tenax Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of carbon fibers and a Teijin Group company, has developed a thinner, lighter-weight carbon fabric suitable for forming prepregs for composite use. A thinner prepreg fabric allows a thicker prepreg layer to be used for the composite, which can increase …

China´s top political advisory body begins annual session (03/04/2010)

3/4/2010 10:15:00 AM

The Third Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People´s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country´s top political advisory body, opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Wednesday. More than 2,000 CPPCC National Committee members, from across…

China 2009 cotton output down 14.6 pct at 6.4 mln T(03/03/2010)

3/3/2010 10:59:00 AM

BEIJING, Feb 25 - China, the world´s largest cotton consumer, produced 6.4 million tonnes of cotton in 2009, down 14.6 percent from 2008, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed on Thursday.The figure was in line with earlier estimates by the bureau, but lower than the agricultural min…

Economic gap keeps narrowing between China´s east, west (03/02/2010)

3/2/2010 10:44:00 AM

Since 2004, the economic gap between China´s east and west has narrowed, according to a Tsinghua University report. The report showed that since 1990, the coefficient of difference or gap between China´s east and west per capita GDP peaked in 2004, hitting a record of 0.75, and th…

China Statistical Communique 2009 Released with GDP of More than RMB33t (03/02/2010)

3/2/2010 10:40:00 AM

The State Bureau of Statistics recently released the National Economic and Social Development Statistic Communiqué 2009, indicating that China fully carried out a package of plans and policies to cope with the international financial crisis last year, with the overall situation of national econo…

China mulls unified GDP calculation: NDRC (03/01/2010)

3/1/2010 9:31:00 AM

BEIJING: China´s top economic planning body has confirmed that China is considering bring local GDP under unified calculation in an effort to prevent local officials from cooking economic growth figures for political benefits.Discord existed between the sum of provincial GDP figures and the…

Report: China´s energy efficiency improved in 2009 (02/26/2010)

2/26/2010 10:15:00 AM

China´s energy consumption per 10,000 yuan (about 1464.1 U.S.dollars) of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 2.2 percent in 2009, China´s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Thursday. Preliminary estimates indicate that the total amount of energy consumption last year s…

Experts: China takes longer-term perspective to cope with climate change (02/25/2010)

2/25/2010 10:10:00 AM

"As China is now increasingly becoming an important role in the world, China has taken a longer-term perspective and view to the development and efforts to cope with climate change," Hannah Reid, Senior Researcher at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development. …

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