Not counting economically affordable and price-limit houses, 41,457 residential units were sold in Beijing in the first half of this year, down 43.9 percent from the same period last year, National Business Daily reported Friday.
Beijing plans to eliminate 1.8 million old vehicles step by step beginning 2011 in the city's bid to tighten emission limits for automobiles, Beijing Times reported Friday.
Jilin Corn Center Exchange (JCCE) Ltd. was fined 1 million yuan ($147,000) for colluding with other distributing enterprises to force up mung bean prices last October, Guangzhou Daily reported Friday.
Some local TV stations were found to have manipulated their audience ratings by bribing some of their audiences into hooking up to their programs for a long time, the People's Daily reported Thursday.
Tudou.com became the most popular Chinese-language video sharing website in the US, TechWeb reported Thursday, citing a report of the marketing research firm ACNielsen.
Beijing plans to install more surveillance cameras with sharper images by the end of this year, attempting to leave no place unwatched in the capital, the Legal Evening News reported.
Taiwain's high-tech giant Foxconn plans to move its major production line from Shenzhen to Langfang in North China's Henan province in an attempt to reduce labor costs, according to Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC), chinanews.com.cn reported Thursday.
China plans to expand natural gas storage facilities to all provinces except Tibet in the next few years to meet the surging demand, said Chi Guojing, Secretary General of China Gas Association.
Natural gas prices for non-residential users were hiked in Shanghai, Sichuan and Hubei today, the National Business Daily reported Thursday.
Sony started recalling 55,362 Vaio laptops in the Chinese mainland from June 30, China's top quality watchdog said Wednesday.
An online gambling syndicate was busted in June by police Guangxi autonomous region after a 32-month investigation and search, gxnews.com.cn reported Thursday.
The minimum wage in 10 province and cities including Henan, Shenzhen, Shanxi, Anhu, and Hainan province was raised on June 1, National Business Daily reported Thursday.