A total of 87 Chinese mergers and acquisitions were concluded in January with the total value of 80 disclosed deals reaching $2.89 billion.
Traditional Chinese medicine company Beijing Tongrentang Group will open 100 self-operated pharmacies around China and 10 stores overseas this year.
China's encouraging policies for the biological industry are supporting the biopharmaceutical sector's share prices, industry observers said.
Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd, the nation's largest listed steel maker, said it has bought back a total of 424,440,408 shares as of Monday, accounting for 2.4 percent of its total capital.
The Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday launched an anti-dumping investigation into cellulose pulp imported from the United States, Canada and Brazil, according to a statement published on the ministry's website.
Stricter controls could be imposed on China's property market after house prices in some cities went up faster than expected, Shanghai Securities Journal reported Wednesday.
Forty-six banks in Taiwan started to provide yuan services on Wednesday, after the yuan clearing system kicked off there.
Minimum wages in Guangdong province will be raised 19.1 percent on average from May 1.
Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group denied that group Chairman Huang Nubo ever pledged to donate 50 billion yuan ($8 billion) to Peking University as an academic institution's recent report said.
Eight people involved in the first organized human organ trafficking case in Guangdong province were sentenced on Monday in the Second Detention House of Dongguan, Guangdong.
China is planning to build 120 border stations along its land borders in an effort to boost trade.
A 9-year-old girl and her father are traveling to 31 major cities across China on foot and by hitchhiking, according to the Chongqing Morning Post.
