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		<title>No Fun at the Fair</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20429</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s largest trade fair sends a gloomy signal for the export outlook For Li Qi, an international trade veteran, this spring&#8217;s Canton Fair was a flop. &#8220;The high-quality clients I met were far fewer than last year. The clients also drove hard bargains,&#8221; said the salesman with Hangzhou Rongson Leather Products. Official data of the spring session of the biannual Canton Fair, or the 111th China Import and Export Fair, verified Li&#8217;s feeling. Export contracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India company withdraws from South China Sea</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20426</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), wholly-owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), will retreat from the disputed Block 128 area in the South China Sea while claiming technical problems, according reports in the Indian media on May 12. In 2006, the company signed a contract to jointly explore Blocks 127 and 128 together with Vietnam Oil and Gas Group. Despite ongoing sovereignty disputes and protests from China, it began test drilling in September 2009. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar power seeks spring thaw</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20425</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By 2050, one-third of energy will come from PV solar facilities More than 200 people gathered in a big, bright, green-themed factory in Xi&#8217;an looking for signs of &#8220;spring&#8221; in China&#8217;s photovoltaic solar industry, which is experiencing its coldest &#8220;winter&#8221;. The audience, including PV executives from foreign and Chinese companies, industry experts and government officials, were attending an &#8220;Innovation Summit&#8221; that aims to send an important signal: When times are bad, that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you qualify as a white-collar worker?</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20423</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DECENT pay, a nice office and stylish clothes have usually been considered the trappings of a white-collar worker. But now it seems that having these credentials is not enough for someone to meet China&#8217;s modern social expectations. Chinese netizens recently came up with updated criteria for workers to be labeled white-collar. Much-discussed online in the past few months, the new requirements not only put entry to the club out of reach for most average earners, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short-term trade recovery expected to elude China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to statistics released last week from China&#8217;s General Administration of Customs, the nation&#8217;s imports and exports both took a nosedive last month. China&#8217;s exports increased by only 4.9 percent year-on-year in April, down from a year-on-year growth rate of 8.9 percent in March and well below the 8.5 percent figure the market had anticipated. Meanwhile, the nation&#8217;s imports inched up by only 0.3 percent year-on-year in April, down dramatically from both the previous month&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City banks&#8217; IPO push puts investors, SMEs at risk</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20419</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued a draft outlining listing criteria for small and midium-sized banks earlier this year, a wave of city commercial banks came forward with plans to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) in the stock markets. Currently, as many as 16 city commercial banks are working toward getting listed, and nine have already passed the first round of the IPO approval process. China&#8217;s city commercial banks emerged from urban credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishing ban starts in South China Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A two-and-a half month fishing ban began at noon Wednesday in most parts of the South China Sea as part of ongoing efforts to rehabilitate the area&#8217;s marine resources, according to fishery authorities. The Hainan provincial marine and fishing department said all 8,994 of the area&#8217;s locally-registered fishing vessels have been moored. The annual fishing ban, which has been in place since 1999, will last from May 16 to August 1 this year, covering areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Resources Gas buys AEI, PetroChina to develop new LNG facility</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20415</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China Oil Monitor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China Resources Gas Group announced Wednesday that it had agreed to buy gas distributor AEI China Gas Ltd for $237.7 million, one of the latest acquisition deals in the booming gas sector. Hong Kong-listed China Resources Gas, which has 73 city gas projects in 16 provinces and is controlled by State-owned China Resources Holdings, said it would buy the entire issued share capital of AEI China, which operates 28 city gas projects, eight gas stations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pet charity in urgent appeal for aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Beijing-based animal protection NGO is appealing for help as they are running out of money to support the many stray animals they take in. The charity has collected thousands of yuan in donations in two days but still needs more. The non-profit China Small Animal Protection Association (CSAPA), posted on Sina Weibo Monday that the 800 stray dogs and 100 cats living in their office and animal shelters are struggling with insufficient food. &#8220;Insufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big banks&#8217; lending grinds to halt in first half of May</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20411</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s &#8220;Big Four&#8221; banks made almost no new loans in the first two weeks of May, after a surprise drop in new loans in April, highlighting liquidity strains that have persisted despite the central bank&#8217;s monetary easing. Citing an unidentified insider, the China Securities Journal reported that two of the banks saw only minor loan growth of less than 10 billion yuan ($1.59 billion), while new lending actually contracted at the other two. The article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PetroChina to develop Canadian LNG</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20408</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint project set to supply fuel to customers in Asia starting around 2020 PetroChina Co Ltd, the listed arm of China&#8217;s largest gas producer, announced on Wednesday that it would jointly develop a proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Canada with Shell Canada Ltd, Korea Gas Corp and Mitsubishi Corp. The proposed LNG Canada project located near Kitimat, British Columbia, will initially consist of two LNG processing units, each with the capacity to produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promising world market</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20406</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government funds green purchases</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20405</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China will provide financial subsidies of 26.5 billion yuan ($4.2 billion) to stimulate the consumption of energy-saving products, mainly automobiles and household appliances, said the State Council. The green measure also aims to expand domestic demand in a bid to provide stable growth for the world&#8217;s second-largest economy. The subsidy will be available for household appliances including air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines for one year. Among the subsidies, 6 billion yuan will be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will capital swallow Yellow River?</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20398</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any plans to alleviate the capital&#8217;s chronic water shortages by transferring water from the Yellow River, China&#8217;s second longest waterway, might be misguided, say water resource experts. However, government water management offices denied that there are any definite plans for such a project. During a week-long campaign to promote drinking water hygiene by Beijing Waterworks Group, local media sources alleged that the waterworks group had hinted a &#8220;Yellow River to Beijing&#8221; water diversion project was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan, China express great concern with enhancing agricultural cooperation</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20397</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AL-FAO, Eastern Sudan, May 15 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sudan and China have expressed great concern with enhancing agricultural cooperation and institute for a new experience similar to the pioneering experience between Khartoum and Beijing in the oil field which has achieved great benefits for the two countries&#8217; peoples. The agricultural cooperation between Sudan and China comes at the top priorities of the coming period after 50 years of deeply- rooted ties that have now entered a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria, China negotiating on rice seed production</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20393</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of State for Agriculture Bukar Tijani said on Tuesday that the ministry has begun negotiations with the Chinese government to embark on hybrid rice seed production. The minister disclosed this in Abuja at the stakeholders&#8217; workshop on state-level implementation of Rice Value Chain Agenda for 2012. He said the hybrid rice seed was expected to be delivered to the field before the end of the present administration. According to him, the Nigerian government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting some of the major criticisms of contemporary Sino-African ties</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20388</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>China steers away from climate crisis</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20384</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern lifestyles often lead to consumption patterns, which, through their underlying resource and energy consumption and increasing emissions of greenhouse gas, are a major contributor to climate change. Global society, and especially the industrialized countries, have responded slowly to these challenges. In the 1980s, we did establish a UN panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Over the last three decades, we have been largely discussing the reality of the recommendations of the IPCC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Producing Charity</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20381</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A venture capital investor uses his business savvy to maximize the impact of his philanthropic work Wang Bing is a man with plans. When he became one of China&#8217;s first generation of securities brokers after graduating from college in the early 1990s, he decided to spend the next 12 years making enough money so that he wouldn&#8217;t have financial worries for the rest of his life. Then he had even bigger plans: Spending the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Bank: China has front row seats to Africa’s next growth phase</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20379</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is set to become Africa’s largest export destination this year, reflecting a dramatic alteration since 2008 when Africa exported half as much to China as it did to the US, according to Jeremy Stevens, Standard Bank Group’s Beijing-based economist. In a research note distributed this week, Stevens notes that China-Africa ties have continued to mature over the past decade, substantially altering the make-up of Africa’s political and economic milieu. China’s foresighted engagement with Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stricter rules on emissions lift demand for palladium</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20375</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s autocatalyst palladium demand in 2011 rose 11 percent, outpacing single-digit growth in car sales as stricter emission regulations forced carmakers to use more platinum group metals, refiner Johnson Matthey said Monday. Palladium demand for China&#8217;s automotive industry makes China the third biggest consumer of autocatalyst palladium after North America and Europe, it said in a report. Platinum used in China&#8217;s automotive industry rose 10 percent to 110,000 ounces, outstripping a 5.2 percent growth in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agency to double investments</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20373</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The agency managing China&#8217;s national social security fund (NSSF) said Monday that it would nearly double its investment in industries through direct and equity investments in central government-administered enterprises in the next three years. As of the end of 2011, the assets under the NSSF reached 869 billion yuan ($137 billion), with 137.6 billion yuan, or 16 percent, invested in industries, the National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF) said in a statement on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manila moves to quell spat</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20371</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine presidential office said Monday Manila is seeking to ease tension from the Huangyan Island incident after the country&#8217;s tourism and agricultural sectors admitted feeling the heat of the simmering row. The Philippine side was &#8220;de-escalating&#8221; the situation over Huangyan Island, said Abigail Valte, a deputy spokeswoman of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, when asked about the decline of Chinese tourists to the country. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a travel ban. It&#8217;s just an advisory, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fission impossible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China was in the midst of a construction boom of nuclear plants when Japan&#8217;s twin disasters struck last year, triggering the worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Last year, China had 14 active reactors, 27 plants under construction and dozens more slated to be built in the future. However, construction of Chinese nuclear plants was put on hold following the Fukushima crisis, which resulted in reactor meltdowns and prompted authorities to set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s economy must advance on two legs: private, State-owned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase guojin mintui, or &#8220;the State advances while the private sector retreats&#8221;, has been used by some scholars when talking about China&#8217;s economy. I have no idea how they have reached this conclusion. From 1998 to 2010, the number of State-owned and State-controlled industrial enterprises fell from 64,700 to 20,300 and their proportion in the total number of industrial enterprises declined from 39.2 to 4.5 percent. In direct contrast, the number of private industrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power consumption decelerates in April</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s power consumption decelerated in April amid slowing industrial activities during the period, new data showed Monday. Energy consumption rose 3.7 percent year-on-year to 389.9 billion kWh in April, down 3.3 percentage points from that in March, according to a statement on the website of the National Energy Administration (NEA). The data came as China&#8217;s industrial production weakened sharply in April, with industrial value-added output up 9.3 percent year-on-year after taking into account inflation, marking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing growth rate &#8216;not unexpected&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20361</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data may indicate changing climate but fears of hard landing dismissed Economic growth may be slowing, as recent data indicated, but fears of a hard landing are not justified as the slowdown was &#8220;within expectations&#8221; and will help recalibrate the economy, economists said. Analysts have cut predictions for GDP growth after the release of a series of economic indicators last week. These forecast declining growth even after a three-year low of 8.1 percent in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China to enlarge talent pool to 180m</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is witnessing an increase in better-educated laborers and a booming talent pool, official figures show. The country was home to 120 million managerial, professional and skilled workers at the end of 2010, up by 7.8 million from 2008. They accounted for 11.1 percent of the country&#8217;s labor force, according to statistics released on Monday. Among the talent pool are nearly 30 million business management personnel, 55.5 million technical professionals, 28.6 million highly skilled personnel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listed firms offer bleak outlook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earnings expected to decline or fall into the red in first-half financial forecasts Almost half of the companies listed on the mainland&#8217;s two bourses that have so far released financial forecasts for the first six months expect to see a decline in earnings or to fall into the red, primarily due to falling demand amid an economic slowdown. According to Wind Information Co Ltd, a leading provider of economic data and financial information, 845 companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade protectionism is &#8216;shortsighted&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20355</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-subsidy, anti-dumping probes often abused, says trade promoter As the world economy weakens and Chinese exports lose steam, China is strongly against protectionism, firmly promoting free trade and investment, said China&#8217;s top trade promoter. &#8220;Trade protectionism is shortsighted and narrow-minded, and it cannot fundamentally address the problems of unemployment and economic growth worldwide,&#8221; Wan Jifei, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, told China Daily. &#8220;Free trade is the engine of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Chinese Ambassador Lu Youqing by AFRICAN</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20403</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question (Q) 1: The Japanese have said you are not trade rivals in Africa or anywhere else because you deal in two market segments: while you sell cheap goods, they sell high tech goods. How far true is the statement? A: International trade is established on the basis of comparative advantage and every country has its own &#8220;comparative advantage&#8221;. I hope that Tanzania government and people will also have confidence, make every effort to develop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China’s First Shale Gas Wells Near Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The project in Sichuan Province will start running in June, Sinopec says China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) says it will start to pumping gas from a shale project in the southwestern province of Sichuan in early June – the first such production in the country. This project is in Fuling, Sichuan, and will be completed by two subsidiaries of Sinopec: Jianghan Oilfield and Exploration Southern Co. Jianghan Oilfield is responsible for production and output, and Exploration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China-Myanmar friendship activities held in Yangon to boost ties</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20394</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of China-Myanmar &#8220;Deep Fraternal Friendship&#8221; activities have been launched in Yangon, in a bid to consolidate the friendship between the peoples of the two countries and boosting traditional friendly ties. Sponsored by the China NGO Network for International Exchange ( CNIE) and China Foundation for Peace and Development (CFPD) as well as Myanmar organizations, the activities include cultural performances, &#8220;Brightness Action&#8221;, joint establishment of an eye- care center, donation of laptops to primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Better Capital Market</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20383</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of new measures aim to ensure fairness, maintain sound development and protect investors&#8217; interests Guangxia (Yinchuan) Industrial Co. Ltd. is a company well passed its prime on the Shenzhen stock market. Most investors agree it should have been swept from the trading floor and delisted a decade ago. A trade suspension and reorganization is now headed by Ningxia Ningdong Railway, but ultimately hopes are low for the company that has been mired in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian FTA plan can surmount old barriers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During their Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting in Beijing Sunday, China, Japan and South Korea agreed to start negotiations within this year to set up a free trade area among the three countries. The idea of establishing a China-Japan-South Korea free trade area was proposed a decade ago, but hasn&#8217;t previously made any substantial progress. In 2011, the overall GDP of China, Japan and South Korea reached $14 trillion, and their overall foreign trade $6.4 trillion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade warning to Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fruit imports and tourism already being affected by island dispute If tensions are not eased over Huangyan Island, trade prospects between China and the Philippines will be affected and economic sanctions might be applied, experts said. &#8220;For the moment the dispute will not have a great effect on bilateral trade because government decisions have a delayed impact on trade performance,&#8221; Zhao Jianglin, an economic expert at the China Academy of Social Sciences&#8217; Institute of Asia-Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power plants see 13b yuan loss in C China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center China Bureau of State Electricity Regulatory Commission recently released a report stating that in 2011, thermal power enterprises in Central China experienced widespread losses totaling 13.64 billion yuan ($2.16 billion). The report covers six provinces and municipality of Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing. Four of the five State-owned power generation groups saw a deficit in the region, Economic Information Daily reported Monday. In 2011, the six provinces&#8217; power plants saw a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New oil pricing mechanism urged in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese price watchdog announced on Wednesday to cut gasoline and diesel prices for the first time since last October, which has fuelled mixed voices to reform current pricing mechanism for refined oil products. Gasoline and diesel prices will be reduced by 330 yuan (52.38 U.S. dollars) and 310 yuan per ton respectively from Thursday, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement on its website. The adjustments will lower the benchmark retail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stricter water standards to be applied nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHINA is adopting a new drinking water standard throughout the country in July with stricter requirements on water supplies, according to the Ministry of Health. The new standard has 106 requirements concerning organic substances, microbes and purification levels, or three times the number of the current version which was instituted in 1985. It will also unify drinking water standards in cities and in rural areas and for the first time define the meaning of domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowdown weights on energy industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petrochemical companies with annual revenues exceeding 20 million yuan ($3.17 million) saw their profits drop to 98.8 billion yuan, down 22 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2012, the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association reported on the weekend. These companies saw a combined 9.21 billion yuan deficit in their refining business during this period, compared with a profit of 14.28 billion yuan in the first two months of 2011, the association said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China building power transmission line of world&#8217;s largest capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction of an ultra-high voltage power transmission line designed with the world&#8217;s largest capacity started Sunday in China&#8217;s far western Xinjiang region. The 800 kv ultra-high voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line connects the energy base of Hami prefecture in eastern Xinjiang with the central city of Zhengzhou, according to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the project contractor. The 2,210-km-long line goes through the vast region of Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Exim Bank lauds progress of Accra water project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Senior manager of the Export-Import Bank of China (China EXIM Bank) told Xinhua Sunday that its largest funded project for water supply to Accra is going smoothly. General Manager (GM) of the Concessionary Loans Department of the bank Mr. Li Jichen who paid a working visit to the project site at Dodowa, about 45 km north of the capital, said, after meeting with the project contractors, that the water project would benefit Ghanaians especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lending slump in Wenzhou</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Private lending in Wenzhou, a city in East China&#8217;s Zhejiang Province well-known for the vitality of its private enterprises, has fallen by around 30 percent compared with last August, Xinhua reported yesterday, citing an unnamed official at Wenzhou banking regulatory bureau. A survey conducted by the bureau also found that loans from individuals have fallen by more than half since last August, the report said. Courts in Wenzhou have accepted more than 22,000 cases related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Int&#8217;l tribunal not solution to sea tensions</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20326</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines has been seeking an international arbitration to resolve a month-long maritime standoff with Beijing over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea, but a closer look at the proposal easily puts Manila&#8217;s real motives in question. Analysts said the proposal lacks legal ground and is not a right solution at all. Not a solution Tensions have been running high since the April 10 episode when a Philippine warship entered waters off Huangyan Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China-Philippines trade may be affected &#8211; experts</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20324</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fruit imports and tourism already being affected by island dispute If tensions are not eased over Huangyan Island, trade prospects between China and the Philippines will be affected and economic sanctions might be applied, experts said. &#8220;For the moment the dispute will not have a great effect on bilateral trade because government decisions have a delayed impact on trade performance,&#8221; Zhao Jianglin, an economic expert at the China Academy of Social Sciences&#8217; Institute of Asia-Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weibo rule not a step backward on free speech</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20328</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s first microblog community compact, released by Sina last week, will take effect at the end of this month. After a few celebrity Weibo accounts were shut down, some argue that China&#8217;s online freedom of speech is shrinking. This is a simplified label tagged onto a complicated issue. Today, China is witnessing an unprecedented number of Internet users, a vast volume of online information, as well as a massive impact by netizens&#8217; opinions on policymaking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dwindling stocks leave fishing high and dry</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20322</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 10:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A SEVERE decline in stocks has nearly paralyzed the fishing industry in east China, leaving many boats anchored at harbor during what should be the prime fishing season. Dwindling stocks due to overfishing, pollution and lower sea water temperatures have brought about hard times for fishermen, who this year have reported the worst catch ever around the Bohai Sea. In ports across Shandong Province, a major seafood production base in eastern China, boats currently lying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs&#8217; role evolves in changing China</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20336</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 11:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giving back to the community and charity are the common tag lines used globally to identify non-governmental organizations. But that may soon change as organizations in China are fast reshaping the role and definition of NGOs in modern times. Here is how that could soon be a reality. In the foreseeable future, farmers from Africa may soon find that high-yield rice seedlings, being developed jointly by the Chinese government and the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity prices to depend on more factors</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20316</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 10:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local pricing authorities are expected to take more factors into consideration when fixing residential electricity prices, including family size and likely price fluctuations, amid a recent round of electricity pricing hearings. Beijing, Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang, Hubei and Jiangsu Friday held hearings concerning the electricity &#8220;ladder pricing program,&#8221; a model crafted by the National Development and Reform Commission to reduce electricity consumption by charging more per unit to families who consumed more. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tap water safety statistics remain alarming for public</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=20312</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 10:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, reports showed that 41.8 percent of tap water did not meet national standards. This was reduced to 17 percent in 2011 due to an upgrading of technology and piping and the renewal of water sources, said Shao Yisheng, director of urban water quality supervision at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD). &#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing the official test results came out passively after the media reports. The authority should lay them out promptly [...]]]></description>
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