Premier Li Keqiang said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has assured him that Australia has confidence in the search for missing flight MH370.
China's industry heavyweights enjoy easy access to cheap bank loans, while smaller firms in dire need for fund usually find it expensive, if not impossible, to secure loans.
Some 3,000 heavyweights worldwide will gather in the scenic southern Chinese coastal town of Boao this week to attend the Boao Forum for Asia.
China and Laos pledged on Tuesday to speed up negotiations on railway construction, with an aim of signing agreements "as soon as possible".
Two events featuring Hong Kong will be held on this year's Boao Forum Annual Conference, Hong Kong government said here on Monday.
China's top economic planner is studying a plan for the capital and its surrounding areas to promote regional integrated development.
Of the total outstanding external debt, registered external debt reached $526.7 billion, while the balance of trade credit between businesses amounted to $336.5 billion.
China is opting for a thorough cure for its problems - meaning it will struggle through a long incremental process of reform without entirely sacrificing growth.
Even as China, South Korea and Japan held the fourth round of talks earlier this month, some changes in the web of relationships linking the countries were developing under the radar.
Trade and financial services are among the sectors that have been benefiting the most so far in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, analysts said.
Judging from the economic data released so far this year, China's first-quarter GDP growth rate will probably be about 7.3%, said DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd on Thursday.
China remains an important driver of the global economy in spite of its own economic slowdown, as shown by the country’s overall competitiveness in Asia.
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