1/17/2008 2:01:00 PM
China´s top economic planner has announced price controls on a package of products, including grain, edible oil, meat, milk, eggs and liquefied petroleum gas, Xinhua learned Wednesday from a work conference of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). "Major enterprises ar…
1/17/2008 1:58:00 PM
U.S. consumer prices jumped by 4.1 percent for all of 2007, the largest amount since 1990, as costs for both energy and food shot up, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The 2007 rise in the department´s Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflation at the retail level, was up sharply f…
1/16/2008 2:18:00 PM
According to the results of nationwide survey on 19,500 all types of enterprises conducted by National Bureau of Statistics of China, it showed that entrepreneur confidence index (ECI) gained 139.6 in the fourth quarter, which declined 3.4 points than the third quarter, while rose 4.3 points than the…
1/16/2008 2:16:00 PM
It is now estimated that growers in the Anhui Province have produced 370,000 tons of cotton in 2007/08 from 393,000 hectares or 5.9 million mu -- this volume is almost unchanged from 2006/07. Growers appear to be quite happy with the price received for their crops. Through the end of December 2007, 9…
1/15/2008 9:58:00 AM
Nantong Zhanyang Fiber Co. Ltd in Haimen City, Jiangsu Province announces the opening ceremony of it’s new rotor spinning plant will be held on January 17, 2008. The new plant is fully equipped with latest spinning machinery from Blowroom to Rotor Spinning delivered from Rieter Textile Systems. The …
1/14/2008 1:20:00 PM
Total 2007/08 cotton output in the Aksu region of Xinjiang Province reached a new official record of 401,300 tons -- Aksu is located in the northwestern corner of the cotton belt that borders the Tarim Pendi Desert. Official acreage was estimated at 224,000 hectares, which was 32,666 hectares above t…
1/14/2008 10:46:00 AM
BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Sample results released by the country´s quality supervisor on Monday indicated that 99.1 percent of the down garments made in China are up to standard. The sample inspection, conducted recently by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quaranti…
1/11/2008 4:40:00 PM
China´s total logistics flow in 2007 grew 25.5 percent year-on-year to 74.8 trillion yuan (10.27 trillion U.S. dollars), according to the estimates of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP). China´s demand for modern logistics continued to increase due to fast eco…
1/11/2008 4:38:00 PM
Details of a new resource taxation system will be announced this year, an official with the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Thursday. The system is still being finalized, but sources have said that it may include a shift to taxation by price instead of volume and an expansion of the ca…
1/10/2008 2:52:00 PM
China´s Internet consumption hit 398.8 billion yuan (53.89 billion U.S. dollars) last year and is expected to reach 581.5 billion yuan in 2008, up 45.8 percent, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The "Netguide 2008" survey, which provides a wrap-up of China´s2007…
