BEIJING, July 9 (ABC): China’s producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, went up 6.1 percent year on year in June, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday.

SHIJIAZHUANG, July 9 (ABC): Great Wall Motor (GWM), China’s largest sport utility vehicle (SUV) and pickup manufacturer, saw vehicle sales increase 26.38 percent month on month to 101,186 units in June, including 13,451 sold in overseas markets. In the first half of this year, the company sold a total of 518,525 vehicles, 62,823 of which were overseas sales, accounting for …

BALI, July 9 (ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares agreed here on Friday to further develop relations between their two countries. During a meeting with Albares on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers’ meeting on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Wang said China and Spain …

BALI, July 9 (ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met here with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on bilateral ties and cooperation. During their meeting on Friday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting, Wang said China-Singapore high-level cooperation has become a front-runner in the region and is leading trends of the times, …

BALI, July 9(ABC): The top diplomats from the United States and China are set to meet Saturday in Bali in a fresh bid to prevent sky-high tensions from spiralling out of control. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold a morning of talks and a working lunch on the Indonesian resort island after taking part …

BEIJING, July 8 (ABC): The performance of China’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) showed improvements in June as business operations resumed and supply chain disruptions have been gradually addressed amid a package of pro-growth policies, industry data showed. The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Index, calculated based on a survey of 3,000 SMEs, came in at 88.4 in June, up …

BEIJING, July 8 (ABC): China has intensified its efforts at flood control and disaster relief in response to heavy downpours that have triggered severe floods in parts of the country, an official said Friday. A total of 487 rivers nationwide have seen alert levels breached, with 13 of them experiencing record-high floodwaters, Zhou Xuewen, vice minister at the Ministry of …

FUZHOU, July 8 (ABC): Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL) has been drawing increasing attention from the global electric vehicle (EV) market over the past few years. The world’s leading automotive lithium-ion battery maker, with around one-third of the global market share, is headquartered in the city of Ningde, east China’s Fujian Province. Once a poverty-stricken region blighted by adverse …

BALI, July 8(ABC): Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday called for upholding true multilateralism, conducting win-win cooperation, and achieving inclusiveness and connectivity within the framework of the Group of 20 (G20). Wang made the remarks when delivering a speech at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali. The G20 members …

BEIJING, July 8(ABC): Senior Chinese legislators gathered on Friday to discuss a draft law and a draft revision to another law at a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. The meeting, presided over by Li Zhanshu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, heard reports on revising a draft law on anti-telecom and …