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BEIJING-- China, the world's largest producer of ceramics, exports 2.2 billion ceramic works of art each year at a total value of $1.5 billion, a national trade association said Saturday. More than 5 billion of the 27 billion ceramic products that th...

BEIJING-- China's rising dependence on imported oil is threatening the country's energy security, and the government should step up energy management to ensure supply in future, experts have warned. China's dependence on imported oil rose to 55.2 per...

BEIJING / HONG KONG - China has set its first unified benchmark grid feed-in power tariffs for solar projects, a move that will provide clearer guidance for solar project developers when making investment decisions. The rates, starting at 1 yuan (16 ...

Product placement has long been ubiquitous in Hollywood movies. Everyone who watched the 1981 blockbuster E.T. remembers ET croaking out "Reese's pieces" while happily munching down the trail Elliot has left for him. In his later film, The ...

BEIJING -- Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States Jon Leibowitz said in Beijing Monday that the US will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China on antitrust and antimonopoly cooperation. The MoU will be signed...

Stocks in China's railway companies suffered a slump Monday after a Saturday train crash, China Securities Journal reported Tuesday. The report said 33 A-share railway stocks lost 31.63 billion yuan ($4.89 billion) in market value in a single day -- ...

Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of China's central bank, said Europe will remain one of China's most important markets for investment, the Securities Times reported Monday. Zhou said China is pleased that European leaders reached agreement on stabilizin...

BEIJING - China's textile industry posted a 30-percent growth year-on-year in output in the first half of this year in spite of a raft of challenges, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said. Output of the industry hit 2.39 trillion y...

SHANGHAI - China's furniture industry is facing a credibility crisis with consumers following a country-of-origin controversy and experts say self-discipline is the best way to rebuild the sector's reputation. Industry insiders said domestic furnitur...

BEIJING -- China's consumer prices will likely fall in the second half of the year, trimming growth of the consumer price index (CPI) to 4 percent by the year's end, the Bank of Communications said in a report Thursday. The bank forecast the rise of ...

HONG KONG - The values of Hong Kong's total goods exports and imports both recorded year-on-year increases in May, at 10.1 percent and 13 percent respectively, the Census & Statistics Department of the city government said Tuesday. During the mon...

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's exports to the Chinese mainland for outward processing in the first quarter this year fell to 29 percent from 32 percent a year ago, the city's statistics department said Friday. During the same period, 49 percent of imports ...

BEIJING -- Profits for China's industrial businesses rose 27.9 percent year-on-year in the first five months of this year to hit 1.92 trillion yuan ($296.80 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday. The growth rate, howev...

BEIJING -- Prices for Chinese farm produce gained slightly last week, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Tuesday. During the week June 13 - 19, meat prices rose from the previous week with pork up 4.8 percent, beef up 0.6 percent, chicken up 0.5 ...

BEIJING -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, on Wednesday began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation for the implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, which will exempt electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles and hybrid vehicles fr...

ZHENGZHOU -- China will reap a bumper harvest of wheat and rapeseed this summer, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said on Monday. The message came amid the worst drought to hit the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in more than 60 ye...

BEIJING - In a vast prairie to the north of Hohhot, the capital city of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, hundreds of wind turbines stand like a vast, unbroken forest. The turbines have created both opportunities and problems for the re...

BEIJING - China on Friday unveiled a list of the country's top 30 auto companies in 2010, including 14 state-owned enterprises, 13 privately-owned companies, and three three-way ventures. The Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.(SAIC), China FAW Group ...

BEIJING - China will auction 250,000 tonnes of sugar from state reserves on May 31, with the starting price set at 4,000 yuan (about $615) per tonne, the country's Ministry of Commerce announced Friday. It will be the government's fifth auction of re...

SHENZHEN, Guangdong -- Confident in developing more local clients, Excelitas Technologies, the United State-based optoelectronic company opened a new Light Emitting Diode (LED) center in Shenzhen. The company, which focuses on the specialty end-marke...