Chinese manufacturing production continued to rise in March, although the pace of expansion remained muted in the context of historical data, according to HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).…

The Chinese central government announced on Thursday that smoking cigarettes will be banned in public places as of 1 May this year, French news agency AFP reported.
The ban will cover parks, hotels, t…

The earthquake in Japan will affect Sino-Japanese trade in the short term only, according to China’s Commerce Ministry.
The Japanese economy would recover quickly and the impact would be limited…

China Market Research Group offers a number of reasons why some industries, unlike luxury clothes and accessories, do not thrive. In the case of electronics, no matter how you tag and dice the reasons…

The World Bank has raised its forecast for China’s 2011 economic growth rate to 9 percent from 8.5 percent. It also said that the earthquake and tsunami’s influence on the Japanese economy…

Consumer prices in Shanghai grew faster in February but still lower than the national average, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau said on 14 March.
The Consumer Price Index, the main gauge of inflation, w…

China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced last week that China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.9 percent year on year in February,  the same pace of growth regist…

Recently, China claimed runner-up to the United States as the world’s second largest economy, finally beating out Japan for economic second place. Its rapid growth and huge population – 1.…

The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has ruled out any changes to China’s policy on its currency, the yuan.
China has been battling inflation, with consumer prices rising 4.9 percent in February …

China’s Parliament on Monday rubber-stamped a five-year government plan that calls for more sustainable and balanced economic growth of around 7 percent annually until 2015.
A resolution by the …