Premier Wen Jiabao is welcomed by Herman Van Rompuy, (center), president of the European Council and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to the China-EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. JOHN THYS / Agence France-Presse




Brussels summit sees premier, bloc leaders agree on investment talks

China and the European Union signifi......

According to the pricing mechanism (Figure 1 in the “Cigarette price system and price formulation mechanism”) and tax incidence formula (Equation 1 in the “Cigarettes tax incidence”) , we can calculate 2008 tax incidence, 2009 tax inciden......

Environmental "green" growth will not necessarily result in slow growth for the Chinese economy, said Pamela Cox, regional vice-president for World Bank East Asia and Pacific.

In an interview with China Daily, she said well-laid urbanization plans can prove essential to sound development.

Officials in the world’s second largest economy seem to h......

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department released the external merchandise trade statistics for August on Tuesday, which showed that the values of Hong Kong's total exports and imports of goods increased 0.6 percent and 0.9 percent year-on-year respectively.

The value of total exports of goods in August increased by 0.6 percent fro......

BEIJING - Japan's unilateral move of the so-called "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands, which are Chinese territories, two weeks ago has taken its toll on bilateral economic and trade ties, experts said on Tuesday.

Chinese people intending on traveling to Japan have been bogged down. Heavyweight travel agencies, including China International Travel S......

China's GDP growth may fall to 7.7 percent this year due to lackluster exports and lower investment growth, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.

The forecast for the expansion of the world's second-largest economy is down from the 8.2 percent estimate it made in April.

In 2013, however, China's growth is expected to rebound to 8.1 percent a......

BEIJING -- China's major banks confirmed with Xinhua Monday that they will not attend the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting that opens Tuesday in Tokyo.

The banks include the country's four State-owned banks - the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agriculture Bank of China. The ICBC is th......

The central government has unveiled a development plan for Nansha New Area, a State-level pilot zone in Guangdong province, to foster closer business ties with Hong Kong and Macao. 

As the country's sixth State-level zone, Guangzhou's Nansha district will enjoy a slew of preferential policies on tax, land management, financial innovation and indus......

    美国商务部经济分析局（BEA）公布了二季度实际GDP初值，年化季率上升2.7%，高于之前美国媒体1.0%的预期。值得关注的是，美国宣布调整GDP的统计方法，将研发支出和娱乐、文学及艺术原创支出这些无形资产等纳入经济核算，美国2012年GDP总量因此增加了5598亿美元。

    5598亿美元什么概念？以2012年为例，相当于美国人均GDP 增加1822美元；相当于宾夕法尼......

JAKARTA -- The World Bank has said Indonesia's economy would remain resilient against threats posed by stalling economic recovery in the United States and Europe, but warned policymakers in the country to monitor economic developments in China, the potential economic slowdown of which could have more "negative spillover" effects for the archipelago......