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Pedestrians walk past the Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 22, 2008. The tower was named on Thursday as the world's best skyscraper completed this year by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based group of architects and engineers.
Shandong Province, China's leaeding economic powerhouse on the east seaboard, announced Sunday both its numbers of enterprise employees and of those actually employed were on the wane.
The Beijing government said Saturday that it was scheduled to start construction of 8.5 million square meters housing project of low-rent and affordable apartments next year, a move to boost the housing consumption and benefit the low-incomers.
With more and more French companies invested in the city, the local government has provided a good investment environment for the French companies, an official said on Thursday at a press conference in the port city of Northeast China's Liaoning province.
Special economic zones in Guangdong province, including Shenzhen, Shantou and Zhuhai, will take further measures in reform and opening-up to maintain their leading positions in economic and social development, the provincial Party chief has said.
Relative national departments and Tianjin Municipal Government would cooperate with each other to set up a tax task team to help locate “China Leasing Industry Base” at the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, China Daily learned on the sideline of the 6th China Leasing Industry Forum on November 18.
The municipal government here will launch a 160-billion-yuan economic stimulus package, adding to the 500-billion-yuan plan introduced last Friday to boost the slowing economy, officials have said.
Harman International has opened a new manufacturing facility to produce automotive audio and infotainment systems. The new facility was inaugurated in Suzhou of East China’s Jiangsu province on November 17.
Construction of an oil and gas pipeline linking Myanmar and China's Yunnan province is expected to start next year, said an official with the local government.
College graduates will face unprecedented difficulties finding a job next year, thanks to the economic downturn, the Guangdong provincial education authority said Tuesday.
The combined throughput of passengers and cargo at Beijing Capital International Airport grew by just 1.6 percent in the first 10 months of the year, the lowest since 2000, its president said Tuesday.
Firms in Shandong and Hubei provinces that want to lay off 40 or more workers have been told they must first apply for approval from their local human resources and social security authorities.