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Vice-Premier Li Keqiang yesterday pledged that the central government will do its best to help reconstruct the Dongfang Steam Turbine Plant in Mianzhu, Sichuan, which was badly damaged by last Monday's quake.
Established nearly 1,500 years ago, Xinxiang, a city in the north of Henan, has developed into an advanced processing base and wheat production hub.
The Beibu Bay economic zone, in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has greatly boosted the region's exports and imports, said a government official.
Toyota Motor Corp plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan to boost production capacity at a facility in North China by 50 percent to 150,000 vehicles a year.
Shanghai has favorable conditions to become an international financial center, said a senior financial official at a forum on Saturday.
The southwestern province of Yunnan exported 1,712 tons of cut flowers in the first quarter of 2008, up 19.5 percent year-on-year, a local customs official said.
Orica Ltd, the world's top explosives maker, would invest less than A$50 million in a joint venture with China's Hunan Nanling Industrial Explosive Materials Co Ltd.
Freudenberg Group will build a 200-million-yuan Shanghai plant to make specialty lubricants and release agents.
Dalian will host the third annual conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF) New Champions meeting next year, a WEF official said yesterday.
As a new part of cultural creation industry, animation and cosplay game are developing rapidly in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province.