Natural disasters cost 1,528 lives and 252.37 billion yuan (US$36.97 billion) in China last year, according to latest statistics released by Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, Xinhua reported.
China's solar energy company - the Baoding-based Yingli Green Energy - told China Daily today that it is proud to be an official sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Yingli Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Miao Liangsheng founded Yingli Green Energy in 1998. At age 51, Miao joined ranks of world's richest solar energy entrepreneurs when Yingli Green Energy, which he founded, listed on the NYSE (NYSE: YGE) in 2007.
An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it has no plan to launch a real name registration policy for mobile phone users in Beijing in April.
China began to draft a protection law to guarantee affordable housing as a social welfare, Shen Weixing, a professor with Tsinghua University and one of the experts leading the drafting told Guangzhou Daily in an interview yesterday.
First-time home buyers will no longer be able to enjoy a 30-percent discount on the interest rate of apartment loans at The Bank of China, the Beijing News reported today.
Shanghai real estate tycoon Wang Jing is believed to be nearing a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hong Kong's cash-strapped broadcaster Asia Television Limited (ATV), the Oriental Morning Post reported.
China's banking regulator has urged commercial banks to self-check for illegal lending flowing into the stock and housing markets and withdraw the irregular funds within a set time, the National Business Daily (NBD) reported, citing an unnamed source from a State-owned commercial bank.
103 Chinese officials who failed the 2009 national auditing have been transferred to judicatory and discipline departments for further investigation, Chinanews.com.cn reported Wednesday.
About 900,000 cell phone numbers were suspended in 2009 for sending mass illicit or junk text messages, According to an official with Guangdong communication agency cited by the Beijing Morning Paper.
China has overtaken the United States and Japan to become the world's largest car manufacturing country in 2009, the China Business News reported today.
More than 100 noted Chinese authors swore to stay away from restaurants that serve wild animals as meals.
Beijing’s insurance sector saw its premiums income jump by 19.1 percent to 69.8 billion yuan ($10.2 billion) last year, the fourth double-digit increase in a row, the local industry regulator said Monday.