BEIJING: China’s trade surplus shrank by 50 percent in January and February from a year ago, Bloomberg reported Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming as saying.
BEIJING: China is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest grocery market by 2014, according to food and grocery analysts IGD.
BEIJING: Investment banking titan Goldman Sachs is maintaining its 11.4 percent growth forecast for China even after the Chinese central bank raised reserve requirements.
SYDNEY: Australian companies doing business in China have been urged by a trade expert to hire more interpreters and fewer lawyers, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported.
BEIJING: China’s current-account surplus posted a sharp fall last year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
BEIJING: China is poised to increase spending on resource acquisitions after delivering its fastest economic growth since 2007, Bloomberg reported.
FRANKFURT: China’s economy could surpass Japan in 2010, Reuters reported Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jim O'Neill as saying.
SHANGHAI: Shanghai overtook Tokyo as Asia’s busiest stock market by trading value in 2009, BusinessWeek reported.
BEIJING: China has dropped a rule requiring more than 70 percent of the wind turbines used in the country to be made domestically, Bloomberg reported.
BEIJING: China’s imports delivered a 56 percent rise in December, Bloomberg reported.
