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China's banking regulator announced stricter regulation rules for commercial banks Tuesday to help improve capabilities of the country's banking and financial institutions in combating risks.
Guangdong, China's largest export hub, had the biggest population rise of any province or municipality in the decade to 2010, as people sought factory jobs, according to the latest census.
China's population is getting older. The emergence of negative growth in the total working-age population, which some demographers predict will happen as early as 2013, is likely to contribute to slower economic growth and higher inflation, according to analysts.
Chinese manufacturing growth slowed in April after a short pick-up in March as the government tightened liquidity and allowed the yuan to appreciate faster.
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector dropped to 52.9 percent in April from the previous month.
Export from some Northeast China provinces are surging to feed Japan's hunger for food and raw materials as the country is recovering from a quake and nuclear crisis.
A power shortage has recently hit many Chinese provinces well ahead of the normal peak consumption season, and it is believed that demand will increase even further once the peak season actually hits.
China will slash test charges for its mobile phone makers by 25 percent on average starting June 1, the country's top economic planner said Friday.
China's red-hot Internet sector is due for a correction, with valuations reaching frothy levels, and some players will be eliminated, industry executives and venture capitalists say.
China's crude steel output rose 13.58 million tonnes, or 8.69 percent, over the same period last year to 169.91 million tonnes in the first quarter of this year, the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said Friday.
A subsidiary of the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) breached the group's internal rules by handing out millions of yuan in bonuses to executives and employees between 2008 and 2010.
The quality of China's tourism industry needs improvement as the sector has seen a sharp increase in complaints, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences warned on Wednesday.
