URUMQI, June 16 (ABC): The China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline has delivered more than 400 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China over a period of more than 12 years, according to PipeChina West Pipeline Company.    The pipeline helped replace the use of 532 million tonnes of coal during this period, equivalent to the reduction of 8.8 million tonnes …

BEIJING, June 16 (ABC): China’s service outsourcing industry notched a steady expansion during the January-May period, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed. Chinese firms inked service outsourcing contracts worth about 726.6 billion yuan (about 108.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months, up 11.9 percent year on year. The executed contract value came in at 466.3 billion yuan …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China’s stamp tax revenue rose 13.7 percent year on year to 216.5 billion yuan (about 32.27 billion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of this year, official data showed on Thursday. During this period, stock trading stamp tax revenue went up 15 percent from a year ago to 141.3 billion yuan, according to the Ministry …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China is accelerating the revision of the industry catalog that encourages foreign investment, as part of efforts to expand high-level opening-up, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday. The MOC and the National Development and Reform Commission are coordinating with other government departments to expand the catalog, with a focus on manufacturing and productive services …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): The opening ceremony of the 17th Zhejiang Landscape Tourism Festival and the 16th Yunhe terrace ploughing festival was held in YunheCounty, Zhejiang Province with activities include offering sacrifices to the holy land, rewarding farm cattle and singing folk songs. As a local traditional folk custom activity launched every year in season of ‘The Grain in Ear’ …

SHANGHAI, June 18 (ABC): Huge clouds of black smoke billowed over Shanghai from multiple fires at a chemical plant Saturday that left at least one dead, according to state media and eyewitness video obtained by an agency. The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. plant in outlying Jinshan district broke out around 4:00 am, but was brought under control …

BEIJING, Jun 16 (ABC): China’s fiscal revenue declined 10.1% during the first five months of this year, compared to the same period of last year, according to the Finance Ministry, the country’s state-owned news agency Xinhua reported Thursday. The fiscal revenue totaled around 8.67 trillion yuan ($1.29 trillion) in the January-March period of 2022. The central and local governments amassed …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China has established the world’s largest monitoring network for disease and health risk factors, the National Health Commission said Friday. Noting China has improved its disease prevention and control system over the past 10 years, the commission said the country has seen a significant drop in the infection and death rate of many diseases. The fight …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China’s electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, recorded stable growth in the first five months, official data has shown. Total power use went up 2.5 percent year on year in the January-May period to 3.35 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), according to the National Energy Administration. Power consumed by the primary industry increased by 9.8 percent …

BEIJING, Jun 18 (ABC): China has restored over half of its manageable desertified land over the past decade, making great strides in addressing desertification, according to the country’s forestry authority. In total, 18.8 million hectares of desertified land have been harnessed and 1.77 million hectares have been sealed off for protection over the past decade, according to the National Forestry …