China to maintain macroeconomic policy stance next year

China's government will continue the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee agreed Friday.

China will not swerve from emission cut target

China will never swerve from its carbon emission cut target despite all pressure and difficulties, said a senior official Thursday evening.
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China's overcapacity leading to trade levies just 'an excuse'

The claim by a network of EU businesses that trade protectionism measures imposed on China are a result of the country's industrial overcapacity is a "bad excuse", a Chinese expert said yesterday.

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• Death toll from NE. China mine explosion hits 108
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• Police seeking man after 6 murdered
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Shanghai issues 1st red warning signal of fog

The photo taken on Nov. 25 shows the Pudong area and the Huangpu River shrouded in heavy fog in Shanghai.

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  Are Chinese descendants of an African Eve?

  Chinese geneticists say DNA evidence proves modern Chinese are descended from one woman who lived 200,000 years ago in Africa.

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Bogus arguments for RMB revaluation

One of the main purposes of Barack Obama's visit to China was to press for an increase in the exchange rate of the RMB against the dollar.

Shell Lubricants' Zhuhai plant goes on stream

Shell Lubricants said production had started at its lubricants site in Zhuhai, its newest in Asia, to meet growing demand in China.