Iron ore supplier's solid bond with China

The world iron ore industry is dominated by three major international suppliers: Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and two Australian producers BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. These three contribute around 80 percent of the world's sea-borne iron ore that are shipped into emerging markets such as China.

Biz scene

MARKET

Book review: Three decades of growth

This year, for sure, is the year of economists.

Business Roundup

Market shaken but not stirred by quake

Shanghai stocks ended 0.37 percent higher yesterday, giving up some of their late gains after a strong earthquake in Southwest China rocked buildings in Shanghai about half an hour before the market closed.

Biz scene

BIZ MOVES

Special Supplement

Portrait of the artist

Born in 1932 in Tongshan county of East China's Jiangsu province, Yu Jigao is considered to be among the most outstanding living Chinese artists who work in the traditional bird-and-flower genre.

Yu gives new flourish to age-old form

Yu Jigao has been widely praised as one of the most outstanding artists in the nation producing meticulous flower-and-bird paintings.

Sino-Japanese Special

Fruitful season for bilateral relations

It is the time of year when grass turns green and flowers bloom - and spring might also be in the air for a Sino-Japanese relationship that has had some stormy times over the past few years.

Economics and culture nurture ties

"The most pressing task for China-Japan relations, I think, is to enhance mutual trust and friendship," Jing Dunquan, vice-president of China-Japan Friendship Association (CJFA), told China Daily just before President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan. The ongoing five-day state visit to Japan is the first by a Chinese president in a decade.