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| Import and Export of Farm Products Increase Substantially in First Half |
| According to statistics from China's Customs, in the early half China's import and export of farm products has increased substantially. |
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| China's Listed Companies Report Moderate Growth in First Half Year |
| China's listed companies reported moderate growth in the first half of the year, as a result of an improving macroeconomic situation. |
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| Foreign Trade in Beijing Booming |
| Beijing has registered a imports and exports volume of 6.115 billion US dollars in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 38.2 percent over the same period of last year. |
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| Jiangsu Province Reports Big Rise in Exports |
| East China's Jiangsu Province reported a year-on-year 48 percent rise in exports to 13.8 billion US dollars from January to July this year. |
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| Cheung Kong, Hutchison Report Increased Profit in Half Year |
| The Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and the Hutchison Whampoa Limited reported increased profit over the first half of this year, according to their interim reports for 2000 released here Thursday. |
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| Guangdong Expects Higher Economic Growth in 2000 |
| Guangdong Province, China's forerunner of reform and opening-up, expects to have a higher economic growth rate this year than it had in 1999. |
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| China Economy on Mend, Indicators Show |
| China said on Wednesday its trade surplus grew in the first seven months of this year and consumer prices edged higher, further evidence that the economy is on the mend. |
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| Statistics: Trade Volume Increased in Latest Half |
| China's trade volume in July rose 31.2 per cent year-on-year to US$41 billion. Exports slowed in the first six months to 24.1 per cent in July, the statistics showed. But experts still consider July's numbers high, the second highest of this year at US$21.5 billion. |
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| China's Exports Increase to Top 10 Trading Partners |
| China's exports to its top 10 trading partners during the first seven months of the year all increased from 29 percent to 73 percent. |
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| Technology Trade Brisk up in Shanghai |
| Shanghai has witnessed a brisk atmosphere in trading the technological achievements since the beginning of this year. During the first half of this year, 7347 technique transactions were contracted with the total value reaching 1.9 billion yuan, a figure more than two times over that of the same period last year. |
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| Electricity Lights 10% Industrial Growth in First Half |
| China generated 625.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in the first half of this year, a 10.55 per cent increase on a year-on-year basis. |
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| Tibet Witnesses Stable Development in First Half |
| Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region witnessed steady economic development in the first half of the year as a result of improvement in local production conditions and implementation of agricultural science-technology projects. |
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| China's PC Exports Hit Record High in First Six Months |
| China became a world-class high technology supplier this year, mirrored by soaring computer exports from January to June, said officials at the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). |
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| Macao SAR Sees Bigger Trade Surplus in 1st Half Year |
| The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China scored a trade surplus of 780 million patacas (97.5 million US dollars) in the first half of 2000, the latest official statistics show. |
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| China's Insurance Sector Reports Moderate Growth in First Half Year |
| China's insurance sector reported a moderate growth in the first half of the year, with premiums totaling 79.6 billion yuan, up 6.7 percent from the same period last year. |
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| High-tech Export Up 40% in the First Half |
| The export volume of China's high-tech products reached nearly US$15.7 billion in the first six months of the year, up 48 per cent from the same period last year, said an official of the Ministry of Science and Technology. |
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| Midyear Economic Outlook: Competition in China's Telecom Industry |
| The competition in the domestic market will give China's telecom industry room to improve its hardware and software. |
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| Economic Outlook: Government, not Market, Trying to Stop Deflation |
| Since the start of summer, prices of air conditioning, color televisions and cars have all dropped. Some of the changes in prices were decided by the factories and others by the retailers. People can't help but ask, "Will the prices go back up before the end of this year?" |
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| Exit-Entry Increase in Shanghai In First Half Year |
| 2.84 million people passed through airport customs in Shanghai in the first half of the year, up 22 percent from the same period last year. |
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| SOEs' Losses Drop in First Six Months |
| China has greatly improved the performances of its key state-owned enterprises with their losses down by 6.1 percent in the first half of this year, compared with the same period last year. |
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