Within the next few weeks, the country will mark eight years of membership of theWTO.

More than half of the 1,050 listed firms on the two mainland bourses, have reported year-on-year profit growth and bettered their subdued performances during the first six months of the year.

The high volatility of Disneyland-related shares in Shanghai has made individual investors wary of such stocks on fears that the frequent tremors would benefit only institutional investors.

Oil and gas pipelines in China will be protected against theft, damage and construction encroachment under a draft law proposed by the State Council.

Shares prices of domestic vaccine makers rose sharply yesterday on surging orders for vaccines, as fears grew over a fresh outbreak of the H1N1 flu, even as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.83 percent