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Beijing sets higher 2024 growth target despite slowing economy
Landslide in China buries 47 people in freezing temperatures and snow. Two survivors are found
BEIJING (AP) — A landslide in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province early on Monday buried 47 people, killing at least two, and forced the evacuation of 200 more amid freezing temperatures …
Landslide buries dozens in southwest China in freezing winter temperatures
Rescuers are racing to reach at least 47 people buried in a landslide in southwestern China on Monday, according to state media.
Landslide in Southern China Buries Dozens and Sends Hundreds Fleeing
The landslide occurred just before 6 a.m. on Monday, hitting two small villages in the northernmost part of the province, near the borders with Sichuan and Guizhou Provinces. The villages, Hexing and …
Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng meets HSBC Group chairman Mark Tucker in Beijing, urges deeper cooperation: state media
We welcome HSBC Group and other international financial institutions to continue to actively participate in China’s financial reform and opening-up and achieve better development in China,’ Han said, …
Beijing sets 2024 growth target higher despite slowing economy
China’s capital city Beijing has set a growth target of around 5% for 2024, surpassing last year’s target of above 4.5%, despite expectations of slower growth for the national economy.
China’s residential foreclosures increase 43% in 2023
The number of foreclosed homes in China rose 43% year-on-year in 2023, according to a private survey on Monday, highlighting a worrying trend of rising mortgage delinquencies amid a sustained property …
HSBC chair ‘confident’ on China investment, meets vice president – state media
BEIJING/HONG KONG, Jan 22 (Reuters) – China’s Vice President Han Zheng on Monday met with HSBC (HSBA.L), opens new tab Chairman Mark Tucker in Beijing and urged the banking giant to deepen cooperation …
2023 was a bad year for China’s finances and 2024 won’t be any better
the Chinese threats to invade Taiwan and the tensions between China and many of its neighbors? A climate that hardly favors economic expansion. Feeling broke on a $665K salary: This surgeon and his …
Foreign auto brands boost exports as China sales remain weak – data
China is estimated to have overtaken Japan as the world’s largest auto exporter in 2023, thanks largely to the strength of nimble local companies such as Chery, SAIC , Geely and BYD. But 18 foreign…
Shenzhen latest Chinese football club to fold under weight of past debt, refused license for 2024 season
Inaugural Chinese Super League champions were relegated at the end of the 2023 season, and have been denied admission by football bosses on the mainland.
China is moving up the rare earth value chain. The West is trying to catch up
It used to provide cheap raw materials to Western nations to make high-end products for clean energy. Now China is importing upstream products, then exporting the downstream, value-added ones.
German exports to US, China fall sharply in December
Exports to Germany’s most important overseas trade partners, including the United States and China, fell significantly at the end of last year, according to statistics office data on Monday.In …
