Leading Chinese power company Huaneng said Tuesday it has launched a 26 billion yuan ($3.8 billion) synthetic natural gas (SNG) project in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to boost energy exploration and production there.
Natural gas consumption will account for 10 percent of China's annual total primary energy consumption by 2020 from the current 3.9 percent level, PetroChina Company Limited Chairman Zhou Jiping forecast Tuesday.
President of China Development Bank Corp Chen Yuan said Tuesday the bank will boost lending to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to strengthen the region's infrastructure and finance its economic development.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will visit Bangladesh, Laos, New Zealand and Australia from June 14 to 24, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here Tuesday.
New Japanese leader Naoto Kan vowed to tackle Japan's huge public debt and keep ties with ally Washington on track as he launched a cabinet that also aims to sideline a scandal-tainted party power broker before an election.
China hopes to see sound, stable and sustained development of relations with Japan, which is in the fundamental interests of the two peoples and the region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here Tuesday.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Tehran will not talk over its nuclear work if new sanctions against Tehran are adopted, the local satellite Press TV reported.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend Iranian National Pavilion Day at the Shanghai World Expo on June 11, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang Tuesday at a regular news briefing.
An official newspaper of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Tuesday that the party and people of the DPRK will strengthen and develop their friendship with China.
China on Tuesday again appealed for calm and restraint by all concerned parties so as to avoid any further escalation of tension with regards to the sinking of the Republic of Korea (ROK) warship and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Representatives of US fast food chain KFC have agreed to raise workers' wages as demanded by a Chinese trade union in northeastern Liaoning province.
More than 2,500 people are being evacuated from three villages after a reservoir embankment subsided Tuesday in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said local government officials Tuesday.
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