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  • `Lis trip shows China keen to enhance ties with India

    The choice of India as the first leg of Li Keqiang's maiden overseas trip as Chinese premier has sent out a clear signal that Beijing's new leadership prioritizes enhancing ties with New Delhi but that "the two nations cannot fully restore mutual trust without resolving the border dispute", Xinhua news agency said in a commentary on Saturday. "The rationale is simple: With China and India being ...

  • Chinese may have practised agriculture before advent of rice cultivation 5000 yrs ago

    Archaeologists in southern subtropical China have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region. Current archaeological thinking is that it was the advent of rice cultivation along the Lower Yangtze River that marked the beginning of agriculture in southern China. Poor ...

  • Chinese ambassador urges U.S. to be truly neutral on Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

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  • 55 dead as hailstorms lash south China

    A total of 50 people have died while 14 reported missing due to latest rain and hailstorms that have hit south China, the government statistics said Friday. The worst-hit Guangdong province reported 36 deaths and 10 missing people, reported Xinhua citing authorities related to disaster reduction. In the evening, the National Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs ...

  • China opposes EUs aviation emissions levy

    China has opposed the European Union's (EU) unilateral decision to incorporate international flights originating from countries outside of the EU into its carbon trading scheme, reported Xinhua. On Thursday, the European Commission, an executive body of the EU, said eight Chinese carriers could face fines totalling 2.4 million euros, or about $3 million, and the two Indian airlines could face ...


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  • India China to be biggest investors by 2030 World Bank

    India and China will be the biggest investors by 2030, accounting for 38 percent of the global gross investment and almost half of all the world manufacturing investment, says the World Bank. "In the gradual convergence scenario, in 2030, China will save far more than any other developing country - $9 trillion in 2010 dollar terms - with India a distant second at $1.7 trillion, surpassing the ...

  • Carbon aerogel worlds lightest material made by scientists

    A team of scientists in China has produced the lightest material ever made. Zhejiang University in China announced in a statement that the ultra-light substance, called carbon aerogel, has a density of 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimetre, CBS News reported. The substance, which is made of granite and carbon nanotubes, can absorb up to 900 times its own body weight. "Carbon aerogel is similar ...

  • 36 killed in floods in southern China

    At least 36 people have died and ten others have been reported missing in downpours that have swept south China's Guangdong Province since Wednesday. Rainstorms battered five cities, including the provincial capital Guangzhou, on Wednesday and Thursday, triggering heavy flooding in some areas. The flood water levels of some rivers in Guangdong have surpassed warning lines and the Beijiang ...

  • Chengdu key for China on economic integration says Spanish

    Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at the IESE Business School, believes that the Chinese southwestern city of Chengdu will play a very important role in China's integration in the global economy.Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan Province, "will carry out a very important role in not only assuring that China is increasingly integrated in the global economy, ...

  • 9th China Intl Garden Expo opens

    Singer Liu Yuanyuan performs during the opening ceremony of the 9th China (Beijing) International Garden Expo in Beijing, capital of China, May 18, 2013. The expo opened in southwestern Fengtai district in Beijing on Saturday and will last till Nov. 18, 2013. Garden designs from 69 Chinese cities and 29 countries will be presented. (Xinhua/Li ...

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