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Chinese companies may have to reveal environmental information to the public (12/24/2007)

12/24/2007 4:15:00 PM

The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is attempting to force Chinese companies, both listed and those waiting to be, to regularly reveal environmental information to the public. Disclosure rules for listed companies could be finalized in the next six months, Ge Chazhong, an officia…

Chinese firms lectured on patent protection against U.S. IPR investigations (12/24/2007)

12/24/2007 4:11:00 PM

Science and technology department of east China´s Zhejiang Province and a law firm of the United States have jointly sponsored a training course to help Chinese firms respond to charges of intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement lodged by the U.S. The recent training course, mainly …

Good news for income tax payers (12/24/2007)

12/24/2007 2:30:00 PM

People earning less than 2,000 yuan ($258) a month will not have to pay income tax if the National People´s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee approves the amendment to the Law on Individual Income Tax.The draft amendment is likely to be adopted on Friday and take effect from March 1 next ye…

Apparel Output Growth Remains Steady (12/24/2007)

12/24/2007 10:42:00 AM

China´s monthly output of apparel reached 1.777 billion pieces in November, which was up sharply from October production of 1.755 billion and also reflected 14.5 percent year-on-year growth. January through November cumulative apparel production increased 13.4 percents to 17.967 billion pie…

Xinjiang´s Highest Yields Reach 7.7 Bales per Acre (12/21/2007)

12/21/2007 1:52:00 PM

The highest yields in China were achieved in the Talimu River Basin of Xinjiang Province, where Production and Construction Corps (PCC) farms dominate cotton production -- PCC farms are the most sophisticated in China and employ the most modern field management. One PCC farm in the Basin reached a ne…

China raises interest rates for 6th time this year (12/21/2007)

12/21/2007 1:46:00 PM

China will raise the one-year deposit interest rate by 27 basis points to 4.14 percent and the lending rate by 18 basis points to 7.47 percent as of December 21, the central bank said Thursday.This is the sixth time for China to raise the benchmark interest rates this year.Different from the five pre…

Clothing trade thru e-business in vogue (12/21/2007)

12/21/2007 1:35:00 PM

Electronic-business commonly referred as e-business, has become a fad these days. The traders of especially clothing industry are adopting the same to do business more efficiently and effectively. Businessmen now are eager to take the advantage of the internet era which enables them to work more clos…

Intertextile Beijing 2008 will be open at China International Exhibition Centre (12/20/2007)

12/20/2007 3:51:00 PM

China International Trade Fair for Apparels and Accessories(Intertextile Beijing )Date 27-Mar-08 to 29-Mar-08 Venue China International Exhibition Centre6 East Beisanhuan Road,Chaoyang DistrictBeijing 10028China Opening times Day 1 09:00 to 17:00 Trade only …

Industrial output growth slows to 17.3% in November (12/20/2007)

12/20/2007 3:18:00 PM

Industrial output at Chinese companies with annual revenue of at least 5 million yuan ($679,349) increased at an annual rate of 17.3 percent in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday. That was modestly lower, by 0.6 percentage points, than the figure for October. It was al…

China to help 50 inland cities attract processing trade from coastal east (12/20/2007)

12/20/2007 3:16:00 PM

China will select 50 cities in its middle and western inland to help them, with favorable tax and industrial policies, attract processing trade relocated from the coastal east, a senior official of the Chinese Commerce Ministry said here Tuesday. "We have already decided on 9 cities in the middl…

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