Archive for the 'Economy' Category

Breaking News - Dangers lurk in Chinese real estate bubble

Posted by Daniel Tang on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
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The rise of the real estate market in China has caught the Central Government’s attention over the past two years. In late two thousand and seven, the State Council passed a series of legislation to suppress intentional manipulation of the real estate market, which saw a subsequent fall in property prices.
The market currently faces the [...]

Breaking News - Communist system continues to harm the economy

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
 
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In connection with the recent deterioration of the economy situation in mainland, stock and real estate downturn, many industry analysts believe that this related to the Chinese Communist long-standing macroeconomic regulation, control and government intervention.

Breaking News - Foreign investors withdraw from China

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, March 3rd, 2008
 
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Hundreds of South Korean factories which have invested in China have begun closing doors and withdrawing with no warning since the second half of 2007. Analysts point out that the advantage of low cost production in China is gradually disappearing, prompting the exit by foreign investors. SOH Special reporter Fen Xuebing gives an in depth [...]

Breaking News - China’s property market encountered a severe winter

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
 
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After the Chinese New Year, turnover of property markets in China continued to shrink. In Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen property markets, the old and new property prices fell across the board. The Real estate industry said that the impact is due to bank credit tightening policies. Investors cannot handle the pressure from the rising costs [...]

Breaking News - Black January, 5 trillion loss on Chinese Stock Market.

Posted by Daniel Tang on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
 
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Affected by factors including the snowstorm disaster in China and the sub prime mortgage crisis in the USA, China’s share market experienced “a Black January”. The total market value of Shanghai-Shenzhen “A” shares was reduced by over 5 trillion in the month. It was equivalent to 1/5th of China’s total GDP in 2007. Many lost [...]

Breaking News - Scholars: The Communist Party is responsible for desertification in China that has endangered the nation

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, January 31st, 2008
 
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The Forest Development Association (FDA) of the CCP held a meeting last week in Beijing that China is among countries of the most serious desertification in the world with land desertification occupying one third of its total territory. Chinese Mainland environmental expert, Tan Zuo-Ren said that the CCP is short sighted for immediate gains, leading [...]

Breaking News - Heated complaints over rocketing prices

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
 
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As Chinese New Year approaches, market prices in Guangdong Province experienced widespread elevation. The price of pork in Shenzhen city has rocketed severely, forcing residents to redirect their appetite for barbecue pork and have other alternatives in its place. Since 2007, the issue in which pigs in pig farms are being slaughtered and stolen has [...]

Breaking News - Cheap labour market gradually loses its advantages as China’s populace ages

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
 
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According to a recent census report, China’s current annual aging of the population rose by 3.2%, which is five times the growth rate of the total population. It is expected that in the next few decades, because of the rapidly aging population, China may lose its advantage of being a cheap labor market.
A report issued [...]