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		<title>Western Debt Crisis: A Turning Point for China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current debt crisis affecting many Western markets offers major expansion opportunities for China and its large state-owned enterprises Opinion piece: Tahuy Chhan Feb 9. – The current crisis of national debts affecting Western developed countries has created a favorable period for China to strengthen its position in overseas markets. In particular, it offers potentially lucrative opportunities in North America and in Europe – traditionally the most difficult markets to conquer for emerging actors. China strengthens its position as an investor With strong commercial surpluses and high national savings, China is at the heart of current events by massively investing &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/02/09/western-debt-crisis-a-turning-point-for-china.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top 50 Chinese Cities by Investment Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Julia Gu Feb. 3 – At the eighth annual World Famous Brands Assembly (WFBA) recently held in Jakarta, Indonesia, the U.S.-China Economic Trade and Investment General Chamber of Commerce, the Europe-America-Asia Cooperation Union for Investment in Industry and Commerce, and the World Cities and World Business Research Association jointly released a list of the “2011 Top 50 Chinese Cities with Strongest Investment Potential.” The results are as follows: WFBA is a non-profit international professional conference which has been successfully held in Hong Kong, Macau, Bangkok, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur for seven years since 2004. Chow Kong Shan &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/02/03/top-50-chinese-cities-by-investment-potential.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China’s Provincial GDP Figures in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of China’s provinces report GDP figures over RMB1 trillion (US$158 billion) in 2011 By Julia Gu Jan. 27 – Preliminary statistics show that China’s GDP grew at a robust 9.2 percent in 2011 to RMB47.16 trillion (US$7.26 trillion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said last week at a press conference. While this rate represents a drop of 1.2 percent compared to the 10.4 percent GDP growth experienced in 2010, last year’s growth rate was still 1.2 percent above the 8 percent year-on-year growth target set at the beginning of 2011. NBS Chief Ma Jiantang told reporters that China’s &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/27/chinas-provincial-gdp-figures-in-2011.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China Overtakes Japan as World&#8217;s Top Coal Importer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 26 – While China has long been the world’s top producer and overall consumer of coal, the country also became the largest importer of the resource last year, overtaking a position held by Japan since at least 1975. Customs data compiled by the International Energy Agency show that strong domestic demand boosted China’s coal imports by 10.8 percent in 2011 to 182.4 million tons. Japan’s imports of the fossil fuel dropped by 5.1 percent to 175.2 million tons over the same period due, at least in part, to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country’s northeast coast &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/26/china-overtakes-japan-as-worlds-top-coal-importer.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>International Sanctions on Iran Put Pressure on Chinese Diplomacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 24 – Recent sanctions placed on Iran by the United States and European Union, aimed at pressuring the Iranian government into halting its nuclear weapons program with a trade embargo, have caused a serious diplomatic dilemma for China – a major importer of Iranian oil. The United States has introduced new legislation which will allow for punitive sanctions on foreign banks and businesses facilitating the Iranian oil trade. In a move that demonstrates the conviction of the U.S. authorities for upholding the new law, oil firm Zhuhai Zhenrong has been the first Chinese business placed under sanctions for selling &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/24/international-sanctions-on-iran-put-pressure-on-chinese-diplomacy.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The China Ripples – Emerging Asia Beckons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China’s 2012 growth rates compared with other emerging Asian economies Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis Jan. 23 – The development of China over the past 30 years has changed global trade dynamics beyond imagination. That it is also kick-starting a previously laid back Asia is also beyond doubt, and of huge strategic importance to multinationals keen to maintain growth rates and sustainable profits. As much of the West continues to struggle with the lingering fallout of the Global Financial Crisis, and with low growth rates expected everywhere across the United States and most of Europe, getting growth back into multinational companies &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/23/the-china-ripples-emerging-asia-beckons.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China Sets New Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Goals</title>
		<link>http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/18/china-sets-new-greenhouse-gas-emission-reduction-goals.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its newest "12th Five-year Plan on Greenhouse Emission Control (guofa [2011] No.41)," China has set its new goals of reducing carbon emissions in the next five years and called for pilot programs that aim to promote low-carbon economy. <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/18/china-sets-new-greenhouse-gas-emission-reduction-goals.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Years Ago, Deng Changed China Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “socialist market economy” was born this week in 1992 Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis Jan. 16 – An anniversary occurs this week that may well go unnoticed by many – the 20th year since Deng Xiaoping, China’s premier at the time, visited Shenzhen as part of an unusual South China tour. To set the scene to recall why this was so important an event is to remember that China had not really fully opened up its economy on the back of reforms instigated by Deng in the late 1980s. What had at one stage seemed to be a sincere movement &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/16/twenty-years-ago-deng-changed-china-forever.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Guangdong Party Boss Warns CPPCC of Hard Times Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 13 – Wang Yang, the head of the Communist Party for China’s wealthy Guangdong Province, has alerted the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) that the province faces a tough and difficult year ahead in 2012. Guangdong is by far the richest province in China, having boomed during China’s export crescendo, but has been hit with rising labor costs and falling orders. Many businesses in the province over the last three years have either closed or relocated to cheaper destinations in China or to Vietnam, Bangladesh or India. Yang told the CCPPC that the next 12 months would likely &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/13/guangdong-party-boss-warns-cppcc-of-hard-times-ahead.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China Urges Financial Industries to Serve Real Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 13 &#8211; The two-day financial planning meeting held over the past weekend in Beijing has provided direction for China&#8217;s financial sector during the next five years. As part of the plan, financial industries will be used to serve the real economy, offering more credits to productive businesses that actually create most of the country&#8217;s new jobs and wealth. Financing channels will be further diversified, with the potential launch of new financial products. For the future, China must improve the real economy&#8217;s access to finance and prevent over-speculation as well as virtual bubbles from inflating the economy, Chinese Premier Wen &#8230; <a href="http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/13/china-urges-financial-industries-to-serve-real-economy.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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