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- 2.3 Million Beijingers No Longer Required to Pay Personal Income Tax
- The threshold for Personal Income Tax will be lifted on Thursday to 3,500 yuan a month, from 2,000 yuan, removing 60 million Chinese from the tax register.
- 8月31日 12:12
- New Top Communist Party Officials Appointed in Tibet, Yunnan and Qinghai
- The Central Committee of China's Communist Party has replaced the leading party official in Tibet along with two other western provinces
- 8月25日 19:32
- Rubbing Shoulders With Mao: How to Spot a Fake 100 Yuan Note
- In response to media reports of new fake 100 kuai notes in circulation, China's central bank has published a notice advising people how to detect the counterfeit bills
- 8月18日 18:42
- Pension Fund’s 10 Billion Yuan Buying Spree Helps Prop Up Chinese Market
- China's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) spent 5 billion yuan on domestic stocks through a brokerage account on Tuesday and may have invested even more through other accounts
- 8月11日 17:20
- China's CPI Up 6.5% in July
- China's consumer price index increased by 6.5% in July, the fastest rate of growth in the index in over 3 years
- 8月9日 19:57
- NDRC Sets Benchmark Price for Solar Power
- The new benchmark price is likely to help boost the profitability of photovoltaic projects and encourage more investment in the industry
- 8月5日 17:15
- China Shuts Down 583 Lead-acid Battery Plants
- A total of 583 lead-acid battery manufacturing plants have been shut down over recent months as part of a campaign to strictly enforce environmental standards on the booming sector
- 8月5日 9:11
- Crash Round-up: Many Stations Use Wenzhou's Suspect Signals
- A summary of the latest news on the Wenzhou crash: the compensation offer, cover-up accusations, investigation and punished journalist.
- 7月29日 17:39
- Premier Holds Press Conference at Site of Wenzhou Train Disaster
- Disasters are common in China, but prime ministerial press conferences aren’t.
- 7月28日 18:19
- Rush for Bottled Water in Sichuan
- Residents of the Sichuan city of Mianyang are buying up bottled water after heavy rain washed manganese into the river that feeds their taps.
- 7月28日 18:07
- Reluctant Transparency
- Central government departments grudgingly reveal glimpses of spending on cars, overseas travel and entertaining
- 7月26日 19:30
- Updated: Wenzhou Train Crash Death Toll Climbs to 38
- According to the Wenzhou city government, as of 1pm Jul 25, the official death toll of the accident involving two high speed trains in eastern China has climbed to 38
- 7月24日 0:57
- Probe Into Rail Exec's Mining Links
- Another senior railway official is being investigated for corruption, after accusations that he received a Beijing property from the owner of a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.
- 7月21日 12:44
- Plan to Expand Scope of Resource Tax Reform Submitted to State Council
- Reforms to the way China collects resource tax currently being trialed in Xinjiang, may soon be expanded to include more resources
- 7月19日 18:07
- China Mulls Appeal On WTO Rare Earth Ruling
- China is considering an appeal after the World Trade Organization ruled that it had placed illegal restrictions on the export of scarce raw materials, a spokesman from the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.
- 7月18日 19:13
- Security Checks to be Introduced on Shenzhen Buses Ahead of Universiade
- The measures are the latest in a series of policies adopted by the city in a bid to ensure that the biennial sporting event goes ahead without incident
- 7月18日 12:57
- New Power Construction Giant to be Established in August
- The establishment of the new group is a sign that progress is being made in a radical plan to reform the country's power industry by separating out the multiple minor lines of business from the core concerns of the country's key power distributors
- 7月14日 19:21
- Public Shaming for Furniture Maker
- Da Vinci, which sells some of China's most furniture, on Wednesday admitted that some of its "imported furniture" is actually produced domestically.
- 7月14日 16:08
- China's GDP Grows 9.6% in First Half of 2011
- China's GDP grew 9.5% in the second quarter, slower than first quarter growth of 9.7%
- 7月13日 16:34
- Hainan Shoppers Leave Bananas to the Pigs
- With thousands of unwanted bananas rotting in their fields, some farmers on the island of Hainan prefer to feed the fruit to their pigs instead of selling them at a loss on the market.
- 7月12日 17:41
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