China is planning to launch new pilot projects to promote land reforms this year, Xu Shaoshi, the country's minister of land and resources, said in Beijing on Monday.
China's top securities regulator said Monday it will advance reforms in 2012 to make the capital market better serve the real economy.
China is facing an even more severe export situation featuring withered demand and harsher competition this year, Deputy Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said Monday.
Chinese online retailer Jingdong Mall is planning to launch an e-book service to tap into the emerging e-book market in the world's most populous country.
Nearly 80 percent of CEOs of leading privately-owned companies in China are optimistic, though with caution, about business prospect in the coming year, according to a survey released Monday.
The largest oil field in Western China, the Karamay, reported 10.9 million tons of crude oil output last year to help meet the country's rising energy demand.
China's major financial regulators highlighted the necessity to curb systemic risks and maintain financial stability by all means in 2012 on Sunday, one day after the National Financial Work Conference concluded.
Talks on a China-Japan-Republic of Korea free trade agreement (FTA) are expected to start in the first half of this year, with May seen as the earliest date. Nurturing China-ROK ties
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China's central bank will adjust credit supply and keep social financing at a reasonable growth under a macro-prudential policy frame.
Beijing municipal authorities said Sunday that real estate control measures will be continued to bring housing prices to reasonable levels.
Eric Wong, managing director of a capsule bed manufacturer, poses in a modified capsule bed inside a showroom in Hong Kong.
China should maintain a prudent monetary policy and continue to limit bank lending in the coming months, said a central bank advisor.