HONG KONG – New mortgage loans drawn down in Hong Kong totalled HK$31 billion ($US3.97 billion) in December, up 11.3 per cent from a month earlier, data from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) showed on Monday. The value of new mortgage loans approved in December declined by 23 per cent from the previous month [...]
Hong Kong, December 6. Designer and manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment, Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development, expects to draw on from 1.57 to 2.13 billion U.S. dollars during the IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company’s shares will be set out at a price of 13.98 to 18.98 HK dollars [...]
March 1st, 2011 
admin Population of China by the end of 2010 rose by six million people and totaled 1 billion 341 million people, said China’s State Statistical Bureau on Monday.
The Bureau noted that these data are still preliminary. The real demographic situation in China will be unveiled in the coming months, after the completion of the processing of the latest census, which was held in November last year.
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January 24th, 2011 admin 
HONG KONG – New mortgage loans drawn down in Hong Kong totalled HK$31 billion ($US3.97 billion) in December, up 11.3 per cent from a month earlier, data from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) showed on Monday.
The value of new mortgage loans approved in December declined by 23 per cent from the previous month to HK$28.9 billion, the HKMA said.
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January 21st, 2011 admin BEIJING, January 10 – RIA Novosti, Vasily Kashin. Tax collection in China in 2010 grew by 20,8% and amounted to 6.686 trillion yuans (1.1 trillion U.S. dollars), as stated by the State Tax Administration of China.
Import duties for the same period increased by 35,9% – up to 1.053 trillion yuans (160 billion dollars). Tax refunds to exporters amounted to 732.8 billion yuans (111 billion dollars), having increased by 13%.
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January 17th, 2011 admin 
China is going to buy public debt of Spain.
“We are confident in European financial market and, in particular, in Spanish financial market, which means the purchase of public debt of Spain, and we shall continue doing this in the future”, – Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang wrote in Spanish newspaper “El Pais” on the eve of his visit to Spain, January 6.
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January 15th, 2011 admin China’s trade surplus was narrowed to 13.1 billion dollars in December 2010. This was reported on the website of Chinese Government.
As noted by Agence France-Presse, it is 8.6 billions less than the analysts expected and 9.8 billion dollars less than in November.
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January 11th, 2011 admin 
Defence Minister Liang Guanglie after the negotiations with his U.S. counterpart Robert Gates said that the dialogue between nations on the military theme will be continued.
“In the first half of 2011, the Chief of the Staff of People’s Liberation Army of China, Chen Binde will come to the U.S. for a visit,” – said the Minister of Defence of China, adding that “the parties will also continue the practice of the exchange of visits by senior military officials and military contacts between educational institutions of both countries” .
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January 5th, 2011 admin 
In China, in down-town of Shanghai, the first hotel in the capsular type for 68 rooms was opened. The size of rooms-capsules is approximately 2 x 1 x 1 m.
Ta Zan, the owner of capsule hotel, said that the rooms-capsules for the hotel were purchased by him in Japan, where they appeared in the 70s of the previous century.
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December 9th, 2010 admin 
Hong Kong, December 6. Designer and manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment, Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development, expects to draw on from 1.57 to 2.13 billion U.S. dollars during the IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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December 8th, 2010 admin Beijing, December 7, China is going to limit the output of 10 non-ferrous metals of 41 million metric tons by 2015.
The proposal on the development of ferrous metallurgy for the period from 2011 to 2015, has already been submitted for the discussion.
According to the proposal, China should strictly limit its smelting capacity in central and eastern parts of the country and encourage the construction of smelters in western part of China. which is rich in resources.
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December 7th, 2010 admin Shanghai, December, 6, China announced that, it may invest $8 billions in the creation of the Development Bank of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Thus, China will become the primary investor of the bank with the fund of $10 billions. The remaining 2 billions will be invested by other parties, including Russia.
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