South Africa’s leading trading partner, China, took its partnership to a new level with the signing of business deals worth R2,3bn yesterday.
The contract s, which will see SA supplying more goods to China, including mohair, fish and even abalone, were described by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies as marking a new era of beneficiation [...]

Nearly 83 percent of the companies surveyed said that their primary motive for locating manufacturing operations in China was to access the Chinese marketplace.

Chinese intellectual property rights (IPR) authorities Wednesday vowed “all-round” efforts to help domestic companies raise awareness of IPR protection in the wake of increasing exchanges with foreign businesses and disputes arising from them.
Yin Xintian, spokesman of the State Intellectual Property Office, made the pledge when answering a question related to a lawsuit between British electric [...]

China’s National Bureau of Statistics said that investment, including infrastructure investment and equity investment, contributed 8 percentage points, or 92%, of the country’s GDP growth in 2009.
The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that retail sales contribute 52.5% of China’s economic growth and pushed up the GDP growth rate by 4.6 percentage [...]

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Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. will boost its holdings of debt such as corporate bonds this year as inflation drives up yields, said Chen Dexian, deputy chief investment officer of China’s second-largest insurer.
The Shenzhen-based company cut cash holdings to purchase bonds in the second half of 2009, Chen, who manages about 560 billion yuan ($82 [...]