Greater convenience for foreign investors

Outside interest in China as destination for foreign capital has increased over the past decade, after China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), thanks to more favorable laws, regulations, and policies.

Free trade zones are clearly the way to go

In the last decade, China has signed free trade agreements with quite a few other countries for mutual trade benefits, notably with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations, especially in machinery and electronic products.

Cradle of agriculture regains its former glory

Agriculture was about the most worrisome sector of the Chinese economy back when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, but something happened to help it meet the challenges and even rise.

Land-locked Central China shows promise

China's Henan province, everyone knows, was referred top as the "central land" long ago, but both its economy and the minds of its people remained closed for a long time - until China joined the World Trade Organization.

Opening up the service sector to the rest of the world

China's service trade has continued to grow over the past 10 years, with service-sector exports going from 12th in the global market in 2001 to fourth in 2010, especially in new services, thanks to China's membership in the World Trade Organization.

WTO membership has given Qingdao some new growth power

The city of Qingdao, Shandong province has made a historical leap in output and opening-up and has become an important regional center, 10 years after China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), a city official told China Daily recently.

Helping those most in need

DALIAN - It was Sun Mingnan's 27th birthday on Nov 16. The young entrepreneur in Dalian decided to do something special to celebrate that day.

Nobel prize winner predicts good future for China's science

BEIJING - College students learning science and engineering at Beihang University have the opportunity to listen to Nobel Prize winners through a program supported by Honeywell International Inc.

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Weibo proves effective at promoting charity

SHANGHAI - When Wang Xinwenchi posted a message on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog service in China, on Sept 23 asking people to donate old clothes to poor children in Northwest China's Qinghai province, she never expected it would be forwarded more than 120,000 times.

Children told how to cope with crisis

BEIJING - Sesame Workshop, a US-based nonprofit educational organization known for its children's show Sesame Street, has begun distributing the second phase of its multimedia education materials designed to teach children how to cope with emergencies.

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