Expo tickets for the month of October are in high demand, with two dates in particular - Oct 1 (China's National Day and China Pavilion Day) and Oct 31 (the date of the closing ceremony) - being the most popular.

"I've tried four of the appointed agencies - China Mobile, China Telecom, Bank of Communications and China Post - but failed to get a single t ...Read More

Growing wealth and privacy concerns can often result in census takers being treated with suspicion more than cooperation. When census taker Wang Xinwei knocks on the door many Chinese, rather than foreigners, are reluctant to even speak to her. 

"I'm surprised it's the Chinese who are not very cooperative," said the 21-year-old community worke ...Read More

Japan-China economic relations can better be categorized as complementary rather than competitive, said Chi Hung Kwan, senior fellow of Nomura Institute of Capital markets Research in Tokyo Tuesday.

Kwan said because Japan's strength in areas including the high- tech is China's weakness, the economic ties are not "a zero sum game" that China's ...Read More

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called on closer cooperation with Japan in energy efficiency, sustainable economic and high-tech areas.

Li made the remarks while meeting with Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Maehara Seiji in Beijing.

As important economic partners, China and Japan should further tap potent ...Read More

The Governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) Yi Gang recently mentioned that China had overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest economy. Some UK researchers believe that at current GDP growth rates, China will overtake the U.S. to be the world's top economy within nine years. The forecasts sparked heated debate worldwide. Some people think the figures are faked and ...Read More

Hong Kong residents' arrivals in the Chinese mainland totaled 70.6 million last year, and their spending also rose to 31.8 billion HK dollars (4.09 billion U.S. dollars), up 8.5 percent on 2008, the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong said Tuesday.

Of all the arrivals, 31 percent were on business travel and 69 percent personal. For personal trips, 57 p ...Read More

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), the nation's largest oil refiner, said Tuesday that it processed 101.45 million tonnes of crude oil in the first half of 2010, up 16.74 percent year on year due to strong growth of the Chinese economy.

The company, also a leading oil producer, said in a preliminary report that its natural gas output rose strongly by ...Read More

The number of overseas visitors arriving in New Zealand for short term stays topped 2.5 million for the first time in the past 12 months, Statistics New Zealand ( SNZ) said on Wednesday.

"This milestone was almost reached in 2008, but the global economic downturn contributed to a decline in visitor numbers after a peak of 2.497 million in the March 2008 year,&q ...Read More

Don't expect any new stimulus measures, analysts said, despite the fact that China's money supply and lending tailed off in June in line with the country's anticipated economic slowdown.

In June, 603.4 billion yuan (88.9 billion U.S. dollars) in new yuan loans were distributed, according to the People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, on Sunday. That is ...Read More