Promising world market

    Chinese companies should change their business model in order to boost benefits of cooperation in Africa In April, I led a Bank of China delegation to South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania, where we held meetings with many senior officials from our host countries’ government departments as well as the executives of both local and Chinese companies. We were impressed by the new enthusiasm evinced by investors in the rest of the world for the huge [...]

    Confronting some of the major criticisms of contemporary Sino-African ties

    China has shuffled the relative importance of certain political and economic tools, and offered adifferent style of engagement with Africa. China’s bilateral engagements should be seen as apositive-sum catalyst for African governments to further their own economies and diversify theirrelations.

    Despite widespread views to the contrary, China is not offering an entirely different ideology tothe “Washington Consensus” for Africa.

Africa

Promising world market

Chinese companies should change their business model in order to boost benefits of cooperation in Africa In April, I led a ...

Sudan, China express great concern with enhancing agricultural cooperation

AL-FAO, Eastern Sudan, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Sudan and China have expressed great concern with enhancing agricultural cooperation and institute ...

Nigeria, China negotiating on rice seed production

Nigeria's Minister of State for Agriculture Bukar Tijani said on Tuesday that the ministry has begun negotiations with the Chinese ...

Asia / Pacific

India company withdraws from South China Sea

ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), wholly-owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), will retreat from the disputed Block 128 ...

Manila moves to quell spat

The Philippine presidential office said Monday Manila is seeking to ease tension from the Huangyan Island incident after the country's ...

China-Myanmar friendship activities held in Yangon to boost ties

A series of China-Myanmar "Deep Fraternal Friendship" activities have been launched in Yangon, in a bid to consolidate the friendship ...

International Relations

Commentary: Never test China’s will to defend its own sovereignty

For nearly a month, Manila has not only turned a deaf ear to Beijing's position on resolving the dispute over ...

Foreign Policy and External Relations

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke to Chinese and foreign media at a press conference on March 6 during the Fifth ...

New Direction for China’s Diplomacy

China now is experiencing growing pains as its economic strength and international influence are on the rise. In the meantime, ...

Central & South America

PetroChina to buy plant

PetroChina Co is in talks to buy Valero Energy's shuttered refinery in Aruba, sources said Wednesday. In a filing with the ...

‘Time for better ties’ with South America

China overtaking EU as region's second-largest trade partner China's economic ties with Latin America and the Caribbean need further development as ...

CNPC, Venezuela joint refinery set for 2014 opening

China National Petroleum Corp said on Wednesday that its Guangdong-based mega joint refinery with Venezuelan partner Petroleos de Venezuela SA ...

Civil Society

Pet charity in urgent appeal for aid

A Beijing-based animal protection NGO is appealing for help as they are running out of money to support the many ...

Mass Producing Charity

A venture capital investor uses his business savvy to maximize the impact of his philanthropic work Wang Bing is a man ...

Weibo rule not a step backward on free speech

China's first microblog community compact, released by Sina last week, will take effect at the end of this month. After ...

Climate Change

Solar power seeks spring thaw

By 2050, one-third of energy will come from PV solar facilities More than 200 people gathered in a big, bright, green-themed ...

Government funds green purchases

China will provide financial subsidies of 26.5 billion yuan ($4.2 billion) to stimulate the consumption of energy-saving products, mainly automobiles ...

China steers away from climate crisis

Modern lifestyles often lead to consumption patterns, which, through their underlying resource and energy consumption and increasing emissions of greenhouse ...

Labour

Would you qualify as a white-collar worker?

DECENT pay, a nice office and stylish clothes have usually been considered the trappings of a white-collar worker. But now it ...

China to enlarge talent pool to 180m

China is witnessing an increase in better-educated laborers and a booming talent pool, official figures show. The country was home to ...

New draft aims to balance workers’ rights with enterprises’ interests

A new draft targeting regulations on working extra hours and the balance between workers' rights and enterprises' development in the ...

Finance

City banks’ IPO push puts investors, SMEs at risk

Soon after the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued a draft outlining listing criteria for small and midium-sized banks earlier this ...

Big banks’ lending grinds to halt in first half of May

China's "Big Four" banks made almost no new loans in the first two weeks of May, after a surprise drop ...

Agency to double investments

The agency managing China's national social security fund (NSSF) said Monday that it would nearly double its investment in industries ...