An El Dorado through Spanish eyes

2015-11-13 08:14

Spain is alive to the trade and investment opportunities flowing from China's Belt and Road Initiative, says Jaime Garcia-Legaz, Spain's secretary of state for trade.

China's financial markets in right direction

2015-11-13 08:14

China's financial markets are on the right path for reforms, and any fluctuations along the way can only help the market become more mature, says Alan Yarrow, lord mayor of the City of London.

Serviced apartments offer good option

2015-11-13 08:14

Armed with just two suitcases, 32-year-old Jean Simpson, an account manager with a multinational bank, relocated from Shanghai to Hangzhou, some 100 kilometers away, in late August. She had no furniture, no household appliances and none of the paraphernalia that typically mark a relocation.

Search engines seeking China openings

2015-11-13 08:14

Chinese search engine companies may be about to feel the heat of rivalry from their overseas counterparts again. Not only is speculation rife about Google stepping back into China, but Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine, has set up shop in Shanghai.

Initiative is seen as grand path for learning

2015-11-13 08:14

British companies should quickly learn to understand the significance of China's Belt and Road Initiative and look for ways in which they can play a role in the plan, experts say.

New aircraft prepares for takeoff

2015-11-06 07:39

China's first domestically developed large passenger aircraft, the C919, rolled off the final assembly line in Shanghai on Nov 2.

As test flights loom, hard-sell begins

2015-11-06 07:39

ICBC Financial Leasing Co, China's biggest financial leasing company, is to start promoting sales of the domestically built C919 airliner, the narrow-body aircraft being produced by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd.

New opportunities follow in slipstream

2015-11-06 07:39

Experts say the successful development of the C919 airliner, China's first domestically built large passenger aircraft, could spark the creation of a nationwide aviation industry.

Quotable

2015-11-06 07:39

Google is in constant dialogue with Beijing as it seeks to better serve the country."

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2015-11-06 07:39

Pep talk with entrepreneurs a fillip

2015-11-06 07:39

French President Francois Hollande, who visited China on Nov 2 and 3, is likely to have returned home a little more optimistic about his country's economic prospects after talking to top entrepreneurs in China, who expressed strong interest in his country and signed favorable deals with its businesses.

Goldman Sachs sees a good year ahead

2015-11-06 07:39

When Mark Schwartz moved to Beijing four years ago with his family, he felt "privileged" to be working in the country.

Firm buys majority Spanish club stake

2015-11-06 07:39

Rastar Group Co Ltd, a Shenzhen-listed toy and video game manufacturer, has become the first Chinese enterprise to own a majority stake in a Spanish soccer team, after securing a 56 percent participation in Real Club Deportivo Espanyol.

British Airways increases Chinese footprint

2015-11-06 07:39

British Airways is opening two new cabin crew bases, in Shanghai and Beijing, to offer tailored services for Chinese customers flying to London and will recruit 35 local cabin crew for the base in Beijing and 30 for the base in Shanghai.

Manufacturing future prosperity

2015-11-06 07:39

Angela Merkel has sought closer links with China on all her visits to the country, but for Chinese business, her biggest breakthrough may have come at the end of last month.

China-led investment crucial for growth

2015-11-06 07:39

China-led infrastructure investment vehicles will be a crucial partner for existing multinational development banks in accelerating global economic growth, says Mattia Romani, managing director for country and sector economics at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

4G comes of age with 400m users

2015-10-30 07:33

Less than two years after China first started getting used to fourth-generation telecom technology, the country has become the world's largest 4G market, with the biggest user population and most sophisticated networks.

Leading firms at the forefront of 5G research

2015-10-30 07:33

In the global race to develop 5G, or fifth-generation mobile communication technology, China's leading tech companies and telecom carriers are working hard at gaining an edge over international competitors.

Gateway to ASEAN

2015-10-30 07:33

The pace at which Kunming, a Chinese metropolis that neighbors three Southeast Asian countries, is developing may soon earn it the title of "commercial capital" of Southeast Asia.

Myanmar on road to growth

2015-10-30 07:33

Location is everything. This adage can apply to a country as much as to anything else.