As the new host of the China Marine Economy Expo, Zhanjiang aims to make it another engine in China's rising maritime power, a senior official said.
Zhanjiang, a trial area for medical insurance reform, is stressing healthcare aid and treatment of critical illness this year, said Chen Yun, the city's deputy mayor in charge of social security.
Known as "prawn city", Zhanjiang is expanding production and improving product quality in its aquatic agricultural bases.
Guangdong Jinling Sugar Industry Group Co is tasting sweet success in its industry now that it has become the second-largest refiner of soft white sugar from raw sugar.
Surging borrowing costs are threatening China's economic growth this year, an economist from a top domestic think tank warned.
Despite an overall increase in China's pharmaceutical foreign trade, growth of its exports showed signs of slowing down in 2013, a chamber of commerce group reported.
After rolling out China's first Internet finance product, Yu'E Bao, in June last year, Alipay, the e-payment arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is set to launch its first fixed-term wealth management service on Friday in a bid to offer an investment choice for those who are willing to wait longer for bigger returns.
Despite plummeting gold prices, gold output and purchasing in China both hit record highs in 2013, reinforcing expectations that China might overtake India as the top buyer of the precious metal this year, data from the China Gold Association revealed on Monday.
After French newspaper Libration reported on Fumian's prospering jeans industry in 2004, the town in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region proclaimed itself "world capital of jeans".
According to research done by an environmental non-governmental organization into Xintang town in Guangdong in 2011, which produces a similar quantity of jeans as Fumian, the domestic market leader, the amount of chemicals - copper and cadmium- in the mud of a river bed in the town was over the limit allowed under the State's standards. The cadmium content in one sample was as much as 128 times what is considered to be the safety limit.
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