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A free-trade agreement between China and Japan will boost relations and benefit both countries, a former trade official said. "Now is a good time for China and Japan to discuss starting FTA negotiations," said Wei Jianguo, former vice-minister of commerce and secretary-general of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, during the Beijing-Tokyo Forum which [...]

Crimes involving the theft of personal data will be regulated and clearly defined, a senior officer from the Ministry of Public Security said. "We're negotiating with the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court to push forward the legislation to protect personal data," Liao Jinrong, deputy director of the criminal investigation department under the [...]

Nearly ten years after China started to relax some of its capital controls, the country is now making more aggressive steps toward that end. The country's top economic planner on Friday unveiled a raft of measures targeted at south China's city of Shenzhen, including trials for cross-border loan issuances to boost the free conversion of [...]

Inventories pile up amid declining energy demand, growth slowdown. Black mountains of coal stand sentinel in Qinhuangdao, 300 kilometers northeast of Beijing, in what was once called the largest coal port on Earth. They grow ever higher due to a lack of shipping orders amid a slowdown in growth since the beginning of the year. [...]

(Beijing) — Cuban leader Raul Castro arrived in Beijing on July 4 for a four-day state visit to discuss trade and a host of other issues with the Caribbean nation's second largest trading partner. During the visit, Castro will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders in Beijing. Castro is accompanied by Vice [...]