Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Berlin on Sunday for the fifth round of China-Germany intergovernmental consultations and an official visit to the European country. The trip marks Li’s fourth visit to Germany as Chinese premier, and the intergovernmental conference will be the first of its kind since the two countries’ new cabinets took office […]
China has lifted its longstanding ban on exports of beef from the UK, in a landmark move for British producers estimated to be worth £250 million in the first 5 years alone. More than 20 years after the Chinese government first imposed a ban on British beef in the wake of the BSE outbreak, today’s […]
From luxury British couture and tea, to chocolate, beauty products, home appliances and other items, UK products have gained popularity in China in recent years. To meet this growing demand, JD.com, China’s largest retailer, has announced plans to sell £2 billion of UK goods to Chinese consumers in the next two-to-three years. The agreement signed […]
China will further open its vast market to Britain as the green light has been given to allow British beef imports for the first time in twenty years.
On Wednesday (31 January), Prime Minister Theresa May met with China’s second most important politician, Premier Li Keqiang, to signal her determination to boost trade with the giant economy. Speaking in Beijing, Mrs May revealed that British beef would be exported to China for the first time since the BSE, or ‘mad cow’, crisis […]
The 10th Kashgar Central and South Asia Commodity Fair kicked off Sunday in Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road town in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As the largest trade event in south Xinjiang, the three-day fair has attracted 1,600 businessmen and delegates of trade and commerce associations, including 446 from six foreign countries, including […]
China Telecom will be the exclusive carrier of Microsoft Corp’s video game console Xbox One, the first of its kind to launch in the Chinese mainland this autumn, the Chinese operator announced on Thursday. The console will be sold in China Telecom’s sales outlets from September, the state-owned telecom firm announced at a press conference. […]
China will join in and contribute to the construction of a new global trade system, said Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Tuesday. Li also called on the United States to be more open and to create more favorable conditions for the two countries’ deeper cooperation, while meeting a delegation of U.S. business leaders and […]
Taiwan’s export orders surged 10.6 percent year on year in June to US$38.82 billion, buoyed by steadily warming global demand and a lower comparison base from last year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs July 21. “June marked the fifth consecutive month of growth and the largest percentage gain since December 2012,” said Lin […]
Trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grew 4.8 percent year on year to 220.69 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of the year, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Tuesday. Investment between China and ASEAN hit 120 billion U.S. dollars at the end of June this year, […]
China’s financial hub of Shanghai has witnessed brisk demand for imported consumer goods, with a sustainable growth in value, said customs authorities on Tuesday. In the first half of this year, the value of goods imported to Shanghai reached 133.96 billion yuan (about 21.44 billion U.S. dollars), a 26.7-percent year-on-year increase, according to Shanghai customs. […]