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Employers are becoming increasingly picky about the type of qualifications held by foreign staff as the expatriate job market shrinks in Beijing, experts say.
Cargo tonnage handled by Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in October 2009 increased by 1.3 percent to 324,000 tons over the same period last year, the first month that registered growth since August 2008, the Airport Authority said Sunday.
Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co (BAIC), China's major carmaker, launched a new energy company in Beijing Saturday to produce pure electric and hybrid cars.
China's wind power industry is still promising in the long run, although the growth rate will inevitably slow down compared to that of previous years, according to a report from the international consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
International pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on China's efforts to protect its people from the H1N1 pandemic with anti-influenza medicines.
Piracy, long a problem for foreign media companies in China, also stands to stifle innovation by the country's own dynamic Internet industry, the CEO of Sohu.com said.
China, the world's largest rice producer and consumer, will expand production of rice bran oil to help ease shortages of edible oil supplies, a company executive said.
After announcing a 5-billion-yuan expansion plan in July, Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co is mulling even further expansion in the southern city of Guangzhou, according to CEO Carlos Ghosn.
China's automotive industry might now be the world's biggest, but it also one of the most fragmented.
Unexpectedly strong earnings at listed Chinese companies have spurred analysts to raise their profit forecasts, creating room for about a 15 percent rise in Shanghai's benchmark stock index over the next three months.
The China Advertising Association publicly condemned 58 illegal infomercials on Sept 25 after an investigation by the State Administration of Industry and Commerce.
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd Chairman Li Ka-shing is buying more shares in the property developer, the worst-performing stock this year among Hong Kong's five biggest real-estate companies.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | +1.25% | Tue | 3,235.36 |
| Shenzhen | +1.42% | Tue | 13,677.72 |
| HSI | +1.34% | Tue | 22,113.15 |
| NIKKEI | +2.43% | Tue | 9,572.20 |
| Dow | +0.34% | Mon | 10,344.80 |
| Nasdaq | +0.29% | Mon | 2,144.60 |
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