The Ministry of Commerce is predicting that China’s retail sales will reach 8.5 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) next year.
Total sales of goods are expected to be 20 trillion or $2.5 trillion – up 15%.
This year, …

Chinese and US officials are praising China’s efforts to meet World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments saying it is a win-win for everyone – China and the world.
The last major obstacle for China is to open …

At a recent forum on cartoons held in Qingdao, Shandong province it was announced that there are about 500 million cartoon readers in China.
Abt 60% of them are aged 14-17. 30% are over 18 years …

China thinks nuclear power is the clean and reasonable alternative to the massive amounts of coal it burns as well as depending on oil from overseas.
If the State Development and Reform Commission gives its approval, …

From a survey taken by 300,000 netizens and among 178 China-produced nominations, China’s top-10 cartoons were announced.
The winners are:
"Century Sonny,"
"Tortoise Hanba’s Stories,"
"Black Cat Detective,"
"SkyEye,"
"Lao Mountain Taoist,"
"Nezha Conquers the Dragon King," …

Major League Baseball is eating its heart out. 
The NBA already has 1.3 million Chinese fans cheering for Yao Ming. Now the MLB is hoping to find as many fans for Can-Hit Tu.
MLB officials said …

This is weird.
My wife, (5"0" tall and made in China) and an exchange student (4"11" and made in Japan) who is staying with us were talking about this yesterday.
Girls in China head to Japan to …

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The NBA’s next Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, has received permission from his club to enter the 2007 NBA draft.
Yi led his team, Guangdong Tigers, to three straight national championships.
The …

China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corp. along with three other Chinese investors have announced the third plan this year to build a nuclear power plant.
Hunan province announced plans for one plant in Yueyang and another …

China appears to be getting more and more serious at protecting its own intellectual property.
A Chinese company, using the Madrid system (the primary international system for facilitating the registration of trademarks in multiple jurisdictions around …