It is about 2:30 in the afternoon, and Wang Xiaohong, the smoking-cessation therapist with Peking University Third Hospital, is talking with a husband and wife about ways for him to quit his habit.
Land sales in Shanghai have ended the year on a high, highlighting a growing appetite by developers for plots in first-tier cities as oversupply risks continue in smaller cities.
Graduates born after 1990 may become a generation of renters because many prefer to spend their money on things besides home ownership, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The United States lobster trade with China is growing rapidly, especially for a species called the spiny lobster that is harvested in the Florida Keys.
WeChat, the mobile text and voice messaging service owned by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd-China's largest and most used Internet service portal that claimed to have had 468 million monthly active users in the third quarter of this year - is now becoming so much more than just away for people to communicate.
Chinese investment banks have awarded pay rises to their staff for the first time since the 2008/09 global financial crisis, buoyed by a surge in China-related deals, but salaries and bonuses still trail far behind those paid by Western banks, according to research published by a global professional services firm.
China's western and border regions have enjoyed a surge in infrastructure investment this year, including railways, and will continue to enjoy high levels of spending next year, officials said.
Energy use per unit of GDP - a measure of the energy efficiency of a nation's economy - is expected to decline by up to 4.7 percent in China iin 2014, according to a leading official at the country's top economic planner, signaling changes in the structure of the world's second-largest economy and the impact of slower economic growth.
The country's top competition regulator has vowed to strengthen its anti-monopoly efforts next year to ensure fairer market conditions.
Nonperforming loan ratios have surged in regions that rely heavily on coal, whose prices are sinking as the economy slows, according to media reports and industry sources.
Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd is planning to increase investments in emerging markets like Venezuela, as the heavy machinery maker seeks ways to sustain growth amid tough market conditions at home.
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