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The prices of land designated for housing development more than doubled in Shanghai this year due to strong optimism among real estate developers.

A total of 78 land plots for home use, with a combined developable area of 9.09 million square meters, were sold via bidding in the city between January and December, harvesting about 65.7 billion yuan (US$9.62 billion) for the local government, E-H
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Tuesday it is to extend an anti-dumping investigation into carbon steel fasteners imported from the European Union.

The investigation would be prolonged by six months to June 29 next year because "the situation in this case is quite special and complicated," said a brief notice on the MOC website without further explanation.

The MOC started the a
As the government strives to cool China's excessive asset prices, foreign exchange regulators have stepped up measures to curb the cross-border flow of capital through illegal foreign exchange transactions.

As of November 31, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), in alliance with other departments, had cracked down on 10 illegal private banks this year, some of which had a maxim
The bank that was robbed on Saturday in Haidian District resumed business Sunday, with the 32-year-old suspect surnamed Han in police custody, according to local Chinese media.

The bank is a branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) located on the second floor of a building in Lingnan Road near the Hangtian Bridge.

By Sunday morning, the security fence allegedly kicked down
Chinese shares closed higher midday on Monday as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.67 percent, or 52.34 points, to close at 3193.7 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index rose 1.45 percent, or 192.14 points, to close at 13,482.08 points.

Securities companies led the advance in the morning session, following news that China would introduce index futures and margin trading at "approp
Hong Kong stocks fell 36.28 points, or 0.17 percent to close at 21,480.22 on Monday.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index opened 0.49 percent higher in the morning and expanded the gain to 0.77 percent by midday. However the growing momentum was snapped by news that the local government sold two sites at prices slightly above the lower limits estimated by market analysts.

The index plunged over 25
China will not relax its efforts to sell Chinese products overseas in 2010 and seek a bigger share in the global market, its vice trade minister said yesterday.

China is a "big trading nation" but not yet a "powerful trading nation," Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan said.

"China's exports in 2010 will grow, and there's no doubt about that," Zhong said, declining to provide details.

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"Since mid-September, all the trucks transporting our products have been fully-loaded, queuing in a long line outside our company," said Yang Jinfu, manager of a private food oil company.

Yang's company set up a factory at Qinzhou Port Bonded Zone in southwestern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region seven months ago.

"At first, we came here to look for sales markets. However, such a huge market

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