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Shipping freight rates have soared in recent weeks and a key factor has been China's soaring demand fo

Australia has secured an export contract worth more than US$17bn with China as a result of a China Nat

Alstom, the France-based supplier of energy and transportation infrastructure, has won two orders wort

China Southern Airlines has become the first airline to exclusively own and operate its own terminal i

Nearly half a million people die each year in China as a result of smoke, mainly from indoor coal- and

New divorce regulations came into force in October, streamlining procedures for separating couples and

China portrayed its resistance to yuan devaluation as beneficial for its trading partners in an effort

William Ding Lei's fortune of US$900m made him China's richest man in a survey conducted by Asiamoney.

China is considering creating more provincelevel cities to join the existing quartet of Beijing, Shang

Shanghai's GDP grew at 11.8 per cent in the first nine months of this year on the back of increased ca

China's grain reserves will run out in two years' time unless production improves, reported China Dail

Some 110 Chinese cities face chronic water shortages, with a further 490 suffering from insufficient s

A recent decision to cut export VAT rebate levels is partly intended to dampen US criticism of China's

China is behind only the US and Japan in terms of spending on research and development, according to a

The Chinese authorities hope that opening up the country's capital markets to foreign investors will b