The Ministry of Land and Resources Wednesday ordered local governments to report the current mining situation in rare earth and other mineral resources and draft plans for future exploitation, as a further step to regulate the rare earth industry, Beijing Business Today reported.
Australian Customs and Border Protection has dealt with several cases involving Chinese citizens attempting to bring child pornography into the country
In the first half of this year, the per capita income of urban households totalled 10,699 yuan ($1,579.40) and of which, the disposable income was 9,757 yuan, up 10.2 percent year-on-year, or a real growth of 7.5 percent after deducting price factors, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
From January 2005 to May 2010, China's all-level procuratorial organs retrieved a total of 31.26 billion yuan ($4.62 billion) from investigating and dealing with cases of corruption and bribery.
The balance of broad money supply (M2), which covers cash in circulation and all deposits, was 67.4 trillion yuan ($9.95 trillion) at the end of June, up 18.5 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
A report released by the trade union federation in Shenzhen on Wednesday shows 99 percent of new generation of migrant workers in the city no longer share their parents' love for the land; they want to find jobs in the city.
In the first half of this year, total investment in real estate development amounted to 1.97 trillion yuan ($291 billion), up 38.1 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
China's imports and exports increased by 43.1 percent year-on-year to $1.35 trillion in the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
China's central bank said Wednesday that it will auction 160 billion yuan ($23.61 billion) of three-year bills and 45 billion yuan of three-month (91 days) bills in its regular open market operations on July 15.
Total fixed asset investment in China for the first six months rose 25.0 percent year-on-year to 11.42 trillion yuan ($1.69 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, increased by 6 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.
China's industrial output grew by 17.6 percent year-on-year in the first half of this year, 10.6 percentage points higher than the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.