Tibet Airlines receives first A319 from Airbus

2011-07-02 13:24:53

France-based European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Friday delivered an A319 to Tibet Airlines, making the newly established Chinese airline the newest operator of Airbus in China.

Ignore not media's role

2011-07-02 11:27:28

Officials rarely used to criticize the media in the country, for they knew journalists played a constructive role in society. But times seem to have changed.

For retirement, not only age counts

2011-07-02 11:18:01

On Tuesday, I attended a media day at the Pentagon arranged by the Public Affairs Office of the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense ahead of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Sept 11, 2001 attacks.

NAO reports progress in audits of high-ranking public officials

2011-07-02 11:17:38

A total of 151 provincial-level officials and ministers have been audited as of the end of 2010, the National Audit Office (NAO) said at a news conference on Friday.

Airbus says it is grateful for help from Party in Tianjin

2011-07-02 11:17:09

The European aircraft maker Airbus SAS has expressed gratitude to a Communist Party of China commission for helping it to make its Tianjin factory into a good workplace, a feat that has been essential to ensuring the factory manufactures jets that are of equal quality to those made in Europe, said a Party secretary.

Mongolia close to decision on Tavan Tolgoi unit

2011-07-02 11:16:52

Mongolia said on Thursday that it has reduced the number of shortlisted bidders seeking to develop the prized Tavan Tolgoi coking coal mine to three and that Chinese and Russian groups are still in the running.

Oil spilled at offshore fields in Bohai Bay

2011-07-02 10:43:31

Authorities confirmed that an offshore oilfield in Bohai Bay had spilled oil but they have "effectively controlled" the leak.

Property firms come under price pressure

2011-07-02 10:28:05

The mid-sized listed developer Beijing Capital Development Co is under pressure to cut new home prices later in 2011 to support sales and ride out China's property tightening measures, a senior executive said on Friday.

Crackdown on IPR infringement is set to continue

2011-07-02 09:42:50

As part of China's nine-month campaign to combat the infringement of intellectual property rights (IPR), the nation has implemented legalization of the software in its 135 central authorities, said the Ministry of Commerce on Friday.

China's ports will remain number one

2011-07-02 09:41:12

Chinese ports will remain the busiest in the world this year, although sluggish economic recovery in the United States and the European Union (EU) will dent their container volume growth, according to an outlook report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Monetary policy likely to remain tight, says CICC

2011-07-02 09:18:46

China's monetary policy will remain tight for the rest of the year but the risk of a "hard landing" for the economy is small, the top-ranked brokerage China International Capital Corp (CICC) said on Friday.

Markets get a boost from June PMI data

2011-07-02 09:04:34

Most stocks on the Chinese mainland rose on Friday, capping a second week of gains for the benchmark index. The advance came on speculation the government will refrain from raising interest rates after manufacturing expanded at the slowest pace since February 2009.