China is pressing ahead with a pivotal project to test an 11,000-meter deep-sea manned submersible in four years, as it aims to set up a deep-water laboratory to conduct further marine scientific research, said a scientist in charge of the program.
Qingdao Doublestar Group, one of the oldest rubber companies and a leading tire manufacturer in China, may acquire a 42.01 percent stake in South Korean tiremaker Kumho Tire Co Inc, according to a Doublestar statement on Monday.
A leading petrochemical industry executive has called for the tightening of large scale refinery project approvals in China - in addition to a slowdown in the issuing of fuel-oil import licenses to private companies - in an attempt to alleviate the country's refining overcapacity.
Believe it or not, nearly 31 percent of business owners in China are women, which gives the country eighth rank globally, according to the inaugural Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs.
Women now hold almost a third of management roles in companies in Asia, with China particularly standing out due to its booming economic development, according to a recent report by specialist recruitment group Hays.
In 2016, as many as 120 million Chinese traveled overseas and, in doing so, spawned not just the world's largest outbound travel market in China, but a mammoth opportunity for luggage makers, including expensive global brands.
One of the world's largest luggage makers Samsonite International SA is banking on e-commerce to fuel its China business, which is set to record 12 to 14 percent growth in the coming years.
China needs to think carefully on whether it should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a new member as the benefits of doing so are still uncertain, analysts warned on Monday.
China's State-owned enterprises should avoid irrational investments and trade financing activities for achieving scale, said the head of the country's SOE regulatory body on Monday.
China is quickening the pace of putting together its compulsory environmental pollution liability insurance implementation plan - and joint regulation and product designs could be key issues, experts said on Monday.
China launched its first national engineering laboratory for big data distribution and exchange technologies on Saturday.