The inland city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China, is expected to become one of the country's economic powerhouses over the next decade.
Urban rail development, and medical and other services are likely to lead the Chinese economy in 2013, which is almost certain to be a year of greater growth than 2012 was.
China has three of the world's top 20 well-developed international cities in terms of both their capital hubs and innovation centers.
Many hope that emerging rural consumers will unleash their purchasing power like urbanites did during the last decade.
Owing to recent scares involving the domestic food industry, China's middle class is increasingly turning to imported products.
Developing countries, led by China and Brazil, will see greater progress in their economic recoveries, as high-income countries continue to struggle amid financial woes.
China will further strengthen the enforcement of environmental laws, and take other measures to tackle air pollution.
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The famous baijiu brand Moutai has fallen out of the top 10 preferred brands used as business or personal gifts by China's millionaires, according to a new report, but it was still the only Chinese brand to make it into the top 15.
Central, western and northeastern regions of the country were expected to notch up faster GDP growth in 2012 than their eastern counterparts.
As a number of cities try to clear the air, experts warn that the pollution and emergency responses to reduce it could damage the economy and tourism.
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China tops any other Asia-Pacific market in its number of companies that plan to hire more employees, a report says.
Nearly 56 percent of organizations interviewed for a report by the global human resources company Hudson, said they plan to increase the number of permanent staff in the first quarter of 2013.
China's economic growth in 2013 would be stabilized and outperform that of 2012 and the country should accelerate economic reforms, a group of renowned economists said in New York on Monday.
The Chinese economy would grow at 8-8.5 percent this year, faster than in 2012 and with inflation under control, Justin Yifu Lin, former vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, said during a forum on China's economic forecast jointly held by the National Committee on US-China Relations and China Center for Economic Research.
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