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  • Ministries urge land and home price curbs

    2011-03-11 15:28

    China reiterated its stance on cooling down the nation's property market, and two ministries urged local governments to further fulfill the central government's home prices curbing policies, various Chinese media reported Friday.

  • ABC to issue up to 10b yuan RMB bonds in HK

    2011-03-11 15:16

    Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) has received approval from its board to issue no more than 10 billion yuan ($1.52 billion) worth of renminbi-denominated bonds in Hong Kong. The maturities will be less than five years, according to a statement by the bank.

  • Internal trade plan is in the works

    2011-03-11 13:51

    China is likely to release an internal trade development plan in late April, the Shanghai Securities News reported Friday, citing Jiang Zengwei, vice-minister of the Ministry of Commerce.

  • Philanthropist to donate 200,000 yuan to quake victims

    2011-03-10 17:26

    Chinese billionaire Chen Guangbiao will donate 200,000 yuan to earthquake victims in Southwest China’s Yunnan province, Chen told China Daily website in an exclusive interview Thursday.

  • Bank lending over 500b yuan in Feb: Report

    2011-03-10 15:49

    China's banks might extend over 500 billion yuan ($76 billion) worth of new loans in February, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday.

  • Individual income tax unlikely levied on families

    2011-03-10 15:34

    China is unlikely to levy individual income tax on a family basis, but raising the tax threshold on salaries looks certain, 21st Century Business Herald reported Thursday.

  • Central SOEs to turn over 63b yuan to State

    2011-03-10 15:29

    China's central State-owned enterprises (SOEs) were estimated to turn over about 63 billion yuan ($9.37 billion) as capital income to the nation, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday.

  • Chinese billionaires fuel spike on Forbes' rich list

    2011-03-10 14:29

    The Chinese mainland almost doubled its number of billionaires from last year's 64 to 115 on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest people. The list was released Wednesday in New York.

  • CCF receives over 6b yuan donations in 2010

    2011-03-10 13:37

    Charitable fundraising has developed in leaps and bounds since 2008, said Fan Baojun, president of the China Charity Federation (CCF), at a forum in Beijing on Wednesday.

  • Oil reserves equal 30 days consumption

    2011-03-09 17:23

    China's strategic oil reserve capacity is enough for one month's use, and the storage proportion of crude oil to product oil is 3:1, according to Wang Qingyun, director of the State Bureau of Material Reserve, the National Business Daily (NBD) reported Wednesday.

  • 1.3t yuan for subsidized housing

    2011-03-09 16:58

    China will invest about 1.3 trillion yuan ($197.9 billion) this year on building or renovating 10 million affordable apartments, people.com.cn reported Wednesday, citing Qi Ji, vice-minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

  • Guizhou to invest 550-600b yuan on transportation

    2011-03-09 16:40

    Guizhou plans to invest 550 - 600 billion yuan ($84 - $91 billion) in 3,017 kilometers of railways and 2,993 kilometers of expressway during the 12th Five Year Plan period (2011-2015), the province's governor said at a press conference Wednesday in Beijing.

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