7/22/2008 2:24:00 PM
After slowing in 2007, China’s production of chemical fibers is on track to decelerate to its slowest growth on record this year, weighted down by its first year-over-year decline in forty months in June. Output through the first half of the year is up just 5.5%, well below the 19.2% gain registered…
7/22/2008 2:19:00 PM
Boosted by June yarn output climbing to a record 2.0 million tons recently detailed here, production remains on track to climb to unprecedented levels in 2007/08. Through the first eleven months of the marketing year cumulative volume is up 11.1% from this period last year, driven by faster growth in…
7/22/2008 2:15:00 PM
Decelerating for the fourth straight year, Chinese cotton cloth output through the first half of the year is up 6.1% and remains on target to reach a record 29.6 billion square meters in 2008. This growth is slowed by June volume only increasing 4.1% from twelve months earlier. Mirroring the faster y…
7/21/2008 3:10:00 PM
BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China´s total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5,104.3 billion yuan in the first half of this year, up 21.4 percent year on year, according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. The growth rate represents an increas…
7/21/2008 3:07:00 PM
BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) -- China will further strengthen management of foreign investment projects and check foreign exchange inflow in a bid to better control it, according to the country´s top economic regulator. The move will also safeguard the country´s economic safety, prot…
7/18/2008 4:35:00 PM
BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The producer price index (PPI) for China´s industrial products rose 7.6 percent year on year during the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The growth of PPI, which measures the value of finished products when they leave the…
7/18/2008 4:33:00 PM
The profit squeeze on China´s textile mills continues. In Jiangsu Province, a very important market, mills are reacting in a variety of ways to this situation. Spinners and weavers of man-made fiber appear to be the most adversely affected, with some operations having halted output. Other m…
7/17/2008 1:49:00 PM
BEIJING, July 17 -- China´s consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 7.9 percent year on year in the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. The figure, compared with 7.1 percent in June, 7.7 percent in May, 8.5 percent in April and …
7/17/2008 1:33:00 PM
BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China´s fixed assets investment in the first half of 2008 rose 26.3 percent from a year earlier, up 0.4 percentage points from the same period of last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The overall investment in assets stood at 6.8402 t…
7/16/2008 2:11:00 PM
Recently, the well-known domestic men´s wear brand JOEONE and the international brand marketing and communication giant Ogilvy & Mather Advertising established strategic partnership. It is said that the cooperation witnessed the formal beginning of JOEONE´ s brand expansio…
