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    Official PMI shows limited upturn

    17  January 2013 The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for China rose slightly in September, signaling the first upturn after four months of successive declines. However, manufacturing activity contracted for…

    China launches registration system to record imported food

    17  January 2013 BEIJING — China on Monday launched a registration system to record imported food in both varieties and places of origin, in a bid to establish a tracking…

    China’s economy transferring to new growth engines: Russian expert

    17  January 2013 MOSCOW — China’s economy has started transferring to new growth engines and searching for new incentives, a Russian expert said. The economic restructuring itself was one of…

    China’s green transition boosts national, global economy

    17  January 2013 COPENHAGEN — China’s rapid transition to a green economy will be a boom both to its domestic market and the global economy, especially renewable energy industry, leading…

    China to work with Nepal on its agriculture sector

    17  January 2013 KATHMANDU — In a bid to speed up farm commercialization in Nepal, two agriculture Ministries of Nepal and China inked a five-point agreement during third bilateral Nepal-China…

    Domestic consumption assumes importance to China’s economy

    17  January 2013 JINAN — In the commodity town of Linyi city, China’s second-largest wholesale trade hub, Song Liansheng, a sporting goods dealer, finishes loading a truck with products to…

    Food safety standard set to be on menu next year

    17  January 2013 A catering standard will be introduced in June, the first of its kind, to ensure consumer health, according to the Beijing Health Inspection Institute. The standard will…

    WTO chief downplays China-US trade imbalance

    17  January 2013 With the changing nature of global trade, a new way to measure bilateral trade balances will see China’s surplus with the United States reduced by half, said…

    Int’l household brands still ranked on top

    International brands of household and beauty products are increasing investment in China’s central and western regions in a bid to better compete with local brands.   Procter & Gamble Co,…

    China’s non-manufacturing sector expands slower

    17  January 2013 BEIJING — The Purchasing Managers Index of China’s non-manufacturing sector, a key economic indicator, dropped 2.6 percentage points to 53.7 percent in September, an official survey showed…