The People’s Daily newspaper says China’s corporate sector is the backbone of its economy in an article pushing back against calls for market reform

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei published its audited annual results for 2012. According to the report, Huawei achieved global sales of CNY220.2 billion in 2012; while its net profit increased by 24.5% year-on-year to CNY15.38 billion. At the sa…

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CHINA'S gross domestic product expanded 7.7 percent from a year earlier to 11.88 trillion yuan (US$1.9 trillion) in the first three months, the National Bureau of Statistics said this morning.

CHINA'S gross domestic product growth slowed to 7.7 percent in the first quarter but was still above the 7.5-percent full-year target, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced today.

Sluggish manufacturing and consumption lead to slowdown that underlines the challenges facing China’s leaders as they push for deeper economic reforms

China increased its holdings of U.S. treasuries in February by $8.7 billion, or 0.7%, boosting its total positions to $1.223 trillion, according to data from the U.S. Treasury department released today. It means 36% of China's massive $3.4 trillion total foreign reserves pool is now in ultra-low yielding U.S. treasuries. The benchmark 10-year treasury yield […]

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Rafal Chomik and John Piggott write: A large proportion of Asian countries are currently at the top of the working-age population hump. For them, the window of opportunity to prepare for an older population will close within the next decade….

Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo announced plans to open its largest flagship store worldwide in Shanghai by the end of 2013. The scale of this new flagship store will reportedly exceed those in Tokyo, New York, and Paris. This new flagship store will …

Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba has launched the overseas version of its group buying website Juhuasuan.com for Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, representing an important step into Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The overseas version of Juhuasuan is report…

As people grow more prosperous, they will demand a pleasant living environment. In Beijing, this has already begun, writes Tom Miller

SHOPPERS swarmed into gold jewelry shops in Shanghai over the weekend lured by the two-year low of bullion price after global gold prices plummeted.

SHOPPERS swarmed into gold jewelry shops in Shanghai over the weekend lured by the two-year low of bullion price after global gold prices plummeted.

FINANCIAL leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will consider this week in Washington a proposal to cut their public debt over the longer term to well below 90 percent of gross domestic product, a document prepared for the meeting showed.

FINANCIAL leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will consider this week in Washington a proposal to cut their public debt over the longer term to well below 90 percent of gross domestic product, a document prepared for the meeting showed.

GOLD futures have notched their biggest one-day fall in more than a year.

GOLD futures have notched their biggest one-day fall in more than a year.

THE world's top business aircraft makers are seeking to tap the soaring demand among Chinese for business jets by taking part in a major aviation event in Shanghai this week.