5/16/2007 2:28:00 PM
China´s retail sales in April climbed 15.5 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. Retail sales, the major measurement of consumer spending, reached 667.3 billion yuan (87 billion dollars) in April, 0.2 percent down from 668.6 billion yuan in March, said the…
5/16/2007 2:20:00 PM
China´s industrial production was up 17.4 percent in April compared with the same period last year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The monthly rise was 0.2 percent lower than the previous month but 0.8 percent higher than during the same period last year. The country&…
5/16/2007 2:17:00 PM
China´s consumer prices continued to climb in April as the country´s Consumer Price Index rose 3.0 percent from a year ago; however it did represent a slight decline from the 3.3 percent inflation experienced in March. April´s annualized inflation rate was slightly less …
5/15/2007 10:23:00 AM
Despite having coped with the abolition of export quotas, textile and garment industries mainly based on processing and export-oriented business, are feeling the impact of RMB revaluation. Exchange rate is directly affecting most of the companies. There are 58 listed textile and garment companies, wh…
5/14/2007 10:15:00 AM
China´s trade surplus in April more than doubled the figure of March to 16.88 billion U.S. dollars, though the country´s exports grew slower and imports rose faster over the past month, according to the General Administration of Customs. But the figure was still a drastic decline …
5/11/2007 10:00:00 AM
A research report of Analysis and prediction of China’s import-and-export situation April~December 2007 was released by Center for Forecasting Science, CAS, recently. The report predicted China’s total import-and-export trade volume, Sino-U.S. and Sino-Europe trade volume, and other main commodity …
5/10/2007 10:48:00 AM
According to statistics released by the MOFCOM, from May 1-7, gross retail of China’s social consumable realized 320 bn Yuan, a 15.5% increase over the same period last year. 1. merchandise sales increased steadily, and LCD TV, air conditioner, jewelry and fashion dress became hot buys. LCD TVs, mod…
5/9/2007 3:08:00 PM
On April 20, the curtain of the first phase of the 101st Canton Fair came down in an atmosphere of ‘looming thunderstorm’. The export transaction of the first phase reached US $23.98 billion, up 8.1 percent compared with the same time of 100th session, and higher than the growth rate of 6.5 percent…
5/8/2007 10:39:00 AM
Major trends in textile trade stayed unchanged to the benefit of poorest Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam. Share of processing trade is on the decline to the detriment of US and EU textile producers. Quotas that were reimposed on China´s products had no radical effec…
4/30/2007 10:00:00 AM
Major trends in textile trade stayed unchanged to the benefit of poorest Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam. Share of processing trade is on the decline to the detriment of US and EU textile producers. Quotas that were reimposed on China´s products had no radical effec…
