Business

Quotable

2013-06-07 09:16

"We all agree that we want to see the US- China relationship succeed. We have made progress in some of the bilateral issues. We have not yet, in my mind, fulfilled our full potential."

Down slipway into stormy waters

2013-06-07 09:16

In 2011 it was grey, 2012 was black, and this year will be bloody. It's not a slogan for some Hollywood disaster movie. It's what they're saying in the shipbuilding yards of Zhoushan in East China's Zhejiang province.

EU firms to step up investment in China

2013-06-07 09:16

More European companies are planning further investment in China, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China says.

Rising tide in sales of smaller marine craft

2013-06-07 09:16

The more mature the market is, the more popular smaller yachts will become. This is a rule of thumb in the yachting industry that is now taking shape in the Chinese market.

Industry to get shock treatment

2013-06-07 09:16

Chinese local governments are once again trying to jump-start the electric-vehicle industry as potential customers remain largely ambivalent to incentives to get them to buy what is billed as the transport of the future.

Chamber with elevated status

2013-06-07 09:16

It would be trite of him to say it, but there's no doubt that Kurt Haerri got a big lift out of sharing a table with Li Keqiang at a lunch during the Chinese premier's recent visit to Switzerland.

London's past seen as London's future

2013-06-07 09:16

On May 29 the commercial developer Advanced Business Park Chinese (Holding), signed a $1.51 billion deal with the mayor of London, to develop a 14-hectare complex of offices and shops.

China a la mode

2013-05-31 08:56

Ground down by a bleak economy at home, Italian brands are looking for relief from afar

Dirk gets match-fit for Eastern league

2013-05-31 08:56

Sporty italian designer label suited and booted for China

Leading lights in Northern revival

2013-05-31 08:56

German car maker in pole position to help fallen industrial giant rise again

Guten tag, Shenyang!

2013-05-31 08:56

Liaoning's capital forges links with Germany in effort to revitalize the city

Quotable

2013-05-31 09:49

"This is very worrying. The main cause is the sluggish European economy, where demand is weak and competitiveness is declining. But the EU's protectionist measures against China have also had a harmful impact on trade."

IN BRIEF (Page 18)

2013-05-31 09:49

Underground movement keeps company buoyant

2013-05-31 09:49

While on the surface many Chinese heavy machinery makers are facing overcapacity in a saturated domestic market and looking for escape routes, Northern Heavy Industries Group is down below digging its way out of trouble.