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BEIJING / WASHINGTON – Vice-President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the United States will help China-US ties fly clear of US election year turbulence, experts said. The visit, which starts on Monday, sends a strong signal that China places a high value on bilateral relations and wants ties to be stable, Jin Canrong, a Sino-US [...]

BEIJING – Foreign trade will continue to be an important factor in helping China maintain economic growth, despite declining exports in the second half of 2011 and gloomy prospects for the coming months, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund said Monday that China's economic expansion may drop to 8.25 percent this [...]

TRIPOLI – A Chinese Commerce Ministry delegation held talks Monday with Libyan officials on bilateral cooperation and resumption of Chinese businesses in post-war Libya. The Chinese delegation, led by Wang Shenyang, director of the ministry's Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Department, is seeking China's participation in Libya's post-war reconstruction and to negotiate on obstacles facing [...]