Urbanization is definitely the buzzword of the year. Premier Li Keqiang has stressed on several occasions that urbanization will create China's biggest domestic demand. At the year-end Urbanization Work Conference chaired by President Xi Jinping in mid-December last year, a quality-based, human-centered and green urbanization target was also highlighted.
Urbanization has different implications for different property developers. But one thing for sure is that the new type of urbanization is not merely building homes.
For Su Qiulan, a 28-year-old media organization employee in Nanning, the capital of Southeast China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, going back to live in her hometown is not an option.
Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time.
The Guangdong provincial government has vowed to realize liberalization of trade in services in the South China province and its neighboring Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions by this year through CEPA (the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement).
Industrial output in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area expanded 13 percent last year to 805 billion yuan ($133 billion), showing resilience amid slowing national economic growth.
Chinese air carriers are chasing new horizons as an increasingly competitive domestic market drives them to seek new opportunities abroad.
Ambitious Chinese youngsters have long sought to learn from Western economic theories and best practice, so why don't they tap into wisdom closer to home?
The Romans paid premium prices for it when they imported it from China. Two thousand years later and the whole world has come to recognize the culinary and medicinal qualities of ginger, still mostly sourced from the land of the Han.
Liu Zhengming's newly built farmhouse is equipped with all the electrical appliances and mod-cons you would find in a city household.
Beer lovers from China and other emerging markets are frothing up sales for Belgian brewers, with shipments from Antwerp to Chinese ports witnessing a steady growth.
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