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China's vehicle production and sales continued their strong momentum in January. Sales growth is expected to top 15 percent this year, with rapid increases in the first half and a slowdown in the second, according to Shanghai Securities News.
Hainan has started exploring ways to introduce betting-type lotteries on major international competitions, including horse racing in Hong Kong, the xinhuanet.com reported today.
China is likely to become the biggest consumer market by the end of its "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, Yao Jian, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said today, china.com.cn reported.
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale has struck Southwest China's Yunnan province, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center, china.com.cn reported today.
The city of Shenzhen is the fifth most crowded city in the world, trailing India's Mumbai and Calcutta, Pakistan's Karachi and Nigeria's Lagos, according to a list compiled by Forbes magazine, chinanews.com.cn reported today.
China's largest steel maker Baosteel Group has prepared 5 to 10 billion euros ($6.76 to $13.52 billion) to cooperate with or buy into one of the two candidate stainless steel makers in Europe, sources told the 21st Century Business Herald yesterday.
Officials who are punished by supervisory bodies will still be able to get promoted, according to a draft amendment to the Administrative Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China, the Beijing Times reported today.
Defense Ministry spokesman Huang Xueping said Thursday that Tokyo's recent move to play up China military threat will stir up distrust between Sino-Japanese security cooperation and the feeling of the two peoples.
The Chinese Defense Ministry this morning denied any military support behind the cyber attacks against Google.com.
The per capita GDP in South China's Pearl River Delta Region reached 67,321 yuan ($9,855.2) in 2009, according to a statement from the Statistics Bureau in Guangdong province, people.com.cn reported today.
United States' arms sale to Taiwan has "severely damaged" China's national security and core interest, the Ministry of Defense said on Thursday, urging Washington to be "cautious" in its wording and actions.
Sino-US military exchanges delayed
The death toll of an explosion at a starch factory in north China's Hebei province has risen to 13 while five others are still missing, the xinhuanet.com reported today.
