China five-year plan to chart reform, growth path
[2015-10-28 15:43]China is mulling the 13th five-year plan, which will chart its reform and growth path, when the country is entering a "new normal" of slower growth and boosting re-balancing towards consumption and services.
China set to continue shooting for the stars
[2015-10-28 07:34]It was midnight in mid-October, but Chen Min, who lives in a village near the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, was still up and about. The vendor in her 20s was earning extra money by selling snacks to visitors who had arrived to watch a rocket launch.
A market-oriented way of financial reform
[2015-10-28 07:27]Therefore, the interest rate liberalization stresses a market-oriented way of reform. It is also a tool of macroeconomic management.
R&D fund bolstered by private sector
[2015-10-28 07:26]China's research and development fund reached 1.34 trillion yuan ($211 billion) last year, with the private sector providing 76 percent of the total, according to Wan Gang, the science and technology minister.
Modernization drive boosts PLA's capabilities
[2015-10-28 07:01]The period since the start of the 12th Five-Year Plan has seen major developments in China's home-grown military hardware and technical expertise.
Blueprint 'focuses on growth, livelihoods'
[2015-10-28 06:46]Social development and improving people's livelihoods form the major part of the next five-year development plan, according to a leading economist.
Rise in soybean imports expected to continue
[2015-10-27 07:11]China's soybean imports rose 13 percent in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period last year.
China to buy more grain abroad, shift farming focus
[2015-10-27 07:05]The country expects to increase grain imports during the 13th Five-Year Plan period rather than continue to boost farming capacity.
Leaders focus on growth at plenum
[2015-10-27 06:43]Maintaining the economic growth rate is widely believed to top a list of 10 major tasks in country’s new development blueprint.
Commentary: Where will China go in the next five years?
[2015-10-26 20:16]Chinese Communist Party will hold a vital meeting in Beijing from October 26 to October 29, at which the development roadmap for China from 2016 to 2020 will be discussed, namely China's 13th Five-Year Plan.
Understanding China's 'around 7 percent' growth target
[2015-10-26 13:37]For those obsessing over China's annual growth target of around 7 percent, the 6.9-percent expansion during the third quarter was a disappointment.
Measures to reduce rural poverty a growing success
[2015-10-26 07:56]In the past five years, Cheng Chunsheng, a tea planter, has paid for his two children to complete college courses, and bought a car for business purposes.
