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China hopes to lure more private investment into its mining industry through a new system of publishing prospecting information for review by potential investors, according to the country's land authority.
China's exports in January registered a decline from a year ago - the first monthly fall in more than two years - as demand from the debt-stricken European markets continued to shrink and the week-long Chinese New Year holiday hurt global purchases.
Chinese authorities punished a total of nearly 290 people in more than 5,200 food safety cases in 2011, according to new figures.
Salary increases in China are likely to exceed the rate of inflation in 2012 and job opportunities are expanding despite slowing economic growth, said human resources executives.
The gap in market share between the computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Corp and Lenovo Group Ltd has narrowed to 2 percent, according to the Chinese company on Thursday.
Reducing fine particle pollution is the Beijing municipal government's top priority for 2012, ahead of housing, health, and education, according to a local government report.
The value of traditional Chinese medicine exported from China is expected to increase by more than 10 percent a year during the next five to 10 years.
China is willing to increase imports from Canada and to boost cooperation in energy and other areas, Chinese leaders said on Thursday.
Lanxess AG announced on Thursday that it will issue Chinese offshore renminbi-dominated bonds in Hong Kong worth 500 million yuan to build a new leather chemicals plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
China's current account surplus narrowed sharply by more than one third from a year earlier to $201.1 billion last year, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said Friday.
CITIC Group is joining with a private-equity fund financed by the French luxury giant LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA to buy a 10 percent stake in the Chinese fashion brand Ochirly.
China's consumption of fossil fuels declined slightly in 2011, but the world's largest energy consumer still faces great challenges in optimizing its energy structure, said analysts.
