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A pioneer blueprint for future free trade

Shanghai FTZ: From 'bold experiment' to national model

What they say

"It is not the Shanghai FTZ's mission to stand out from its peers, but rather to strive to excel with its own merits."

Rate cuts cheer up investors

Benchmark Shanghai Composite Index hits two-month high on new plan hopes

Yantai Xinchao set to acquire oilfields in Texas for $1.3b

Yantai Xinchao Industry Co Ltd, a privately held property company, said that it was close to buying oilfields in Texas, the United States, for 8.3 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) through a limited liability partnership.

Banana bunkers bloom in Dalian

Cross-continent trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars promises a healthy and fruitful future

Growing demand for vegetables follows influx of Chinese

Ten years living and working in South Africa taught Joseph Githu, 36, an important lesson: growing Chinese vegetables is a lucrative business.

Tending farms is a work of green art

On a small farm in Kiambu county, less than an hour's drive from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, stand three greenhouses. Inside one, Chinese long beans have made their way along the strings set for them up to the ceiling. They stand there line by line, like soldiers on parade. Beans hang down everywhere, suggesting a good harvest.

'Third board' swells, shines

Some 6,000 firms may list on NEEQ by the year end, but stricter rules are seen as key

Hopes of extended rally rise on Party meet

Bullish investors are expecting the Fifth Plenum, a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party to be held this week, will continue to fuel the stock rally, but some less optimistic traders worry that the current stock prices already factor in the likelihood of a policy catalyst, and might face rising selling pressure.

Surviving the phone zombie apocalypse

Forget the undead, it's the mobile device addicts filling the sidewalks that I worry about

Back to the Future: Truth is stranger than sci-fi

When Marty McFly and "Doc" Brown burst into 2015 in a time machine, straight from the year 1985, they encounter a brave new world of garbage-fuelled flying cars, self-tying shoes and robot waiters.