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Date:2012/02/02
In December of 2011, China had imported 0.28 million t of the coated steel plate, rising by 0.1% month over month while still down 3.94% year over year. Meanwhile, Chinese overall coated steel plate exports came to 0.436 million t, inch...
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Date:2012/01/31
Chinese shares opened slightly higher Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.04 percent to open at 2,285.95.
The Shenzhen Component Index opened at 9,278.09, up 0.03 percent.
Source: Xinhua
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Date:2012/01/30
According to the data released by CISA recently, in December of 2011, Chinese overall silicon steel production amounted to 0.495 million t, rising by 62 thousand t month over month. Meanwhile, in the entire 2011, Chinese silicon steel output reached ...
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Date:2012/02/01
China's steelmakers suffered losses in 2011 because of rising costs and shrinking demand. That will result in weak performances following the Chinese Lunar New Year and the situation will continue for several months until the downstream market g...
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Date:2012/01/31
According to the data released by CISA (China Iron and Steel Association), Chinese registered steelmakers contributed a daily crude steel output of 1.4919 million metric tons in early January, up 0.49 percent compared to December 2011. Meanwh...
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Date:2012/01/29
The leaders of Denmark and Finland said on Friday that China has showed a willingness to contribute to global efforts to bail out debt-ridden European countries. However, a senior Chinese policy adviser said there should be preconditions.
Speaking a...
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Date:2012/02/01
China's bonds issued in 2011 totaled 7.8 trillion yuan ($1.24 trillion), down 20.4 percent from a year earlier, the country's central bank said Tuesday.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement posted on its website...
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Date:2012/01/30
Chinese stocks ended lower Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 1.47 percent, or 34.08 points, to close at 2,285.04.
The Shenzhen Component Index shed 2.02 percent, or 191.29 points, to finish at 9,274.85.
China's stock mark...
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Date:2012/01/29
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday expressed optimism towards China's economic outlook in the next few years at the Davos Annual Meeting.
Speaking at a session titled "the Outlook for East Asia," Lee said he was fundamentally ...
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Date:2012/02/01
China is "ready" to deal with increasing pressure from developed nations to loosen export restrictions on rare earths after the failure of an appeal against a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling, a Ministry of Commerce official said on Tuesday.
"W...
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Date:2012/01/30
East China's Shandong province, the country's largest labor exporter, sent nearly 50,000 laborers abroad in 2011, local authorities said Sunday.
According to the provincial commerce department, 48,836 people went abroad for jobs last...
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Date:2012/01/29
Attack on China's currency exchange rate is totally unfair as the renminbi, also known as yuan, has been continuously appreciating, an adviser to China's central bank said Friday.
"Renminbi exchange rate has probably caused the biggest mis...
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Date:2012/01/29
According to the data released by NBS, during the entire 2011 Chinese crude steel output reached 683.27 million t, up 8.9% year on year.
Meanwhile, in December alone, the domestic crude steel production totaled 52.16 million t, up 0.7% year over yea...
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Date:2012/01/29
The bilateral trade between China and Singapore rose by 6.4 percent year on year to 101.4 billion Singapore dollars ($80.5 billion) in 2011, a senior official has said.
Minister of State for Trade and Development Lee Yi Shyan said that the bilateral...
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Date:2012/01/20
New Zealand's sole methanol producer is almost doubling production to meet rising demand from customers who are mostly in Japan, South Korea and China, a company official said on Thursday.
Canada-based Methanex announced a 10-year natural gas s...
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Date:2012/01/19
Closer trade relations with the mainland can mitigate the harm posed by the global economic slowdown to Hong Kong's highly open economy.
The downturn and slowing of trade "will surely affect the economic growth of Hong Kong, a relatively ...
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Date:2012/01/20
Spring Festival has ramifications for global trade, Andrea Fenn reports from Shanghai.
With Lunar New Year just days away, most Chinese people are savoring a week of holidays, family reunions and feasting, charging up for the Year of the Dragon.
But ...
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Date:2012/01/19
China's economy can achieve a soft landing in 2012 despite a global economic slowdown, World Bank chief economist Justin Lin said Wednesday.
China's massive foreign exchange reserves will help the world's second-largest economy shrug ...
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Date:2012/01/20
China's industrial output is expected to grow 8 percent annually during the remainder of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) period, down from 11.7 percent in 2011, the State Council said in its first medium- to long-term industrial restructuring ...
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Date:2012/01/19
China will increase its electricity imports from Russia with the opening of a China-Russia high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, a local power company said Wednesday.
Heilongjiang...