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  • China's education expenditure reaches US$357bn in 2012

    China's education expenditure reaches US$357bn in 2012

    Public expenditure on education in China reached 2.2 trillion yuan (US$357 billion) in 2012, accounting for 4% of its GDP, the country's Ministry of Finance said Wednesday.Of the total, 378.1 billion ...

  • China has nearly 3,000 foundations: report

    China has nearly 3,000 foundations: report

    The number of foundations set up in China reached 2,961 in the third quarter of 2012, about three times of that in 2005, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced on Tuesday.The number of foundations ...

  • China's Q1 industrial output growth slows to 9.5%

    China's industrial value-added output growth eased to 9.5% year on year in the first quarter, down 2.1% from the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.The pace was ...

  • Chinese yuan hits record high against US dollar

    Chinese yuan hits record high against US dollar

    China's currency renminbi, or yuan, strengthened 52 basis points to hit a record high of 6.2454 against the US dollar on Monday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.In China's ...

  • Infectious diseases kill 1,360 in China in March

    Infectious diseases kill 1,360 in China in March

    More than 521,000 notifiable cases of infectious disease were reported in China in March, contributing to the deaths of 1,360 people, the country's health authorities revealed Monday.Two deaths in ...

  • Government microblogs now number over 170,000 in China

    China had more than 170,000 government microblogs by the end of last year, according to a report issued on Wednesday.The annual report by the E-Government Research Center under the China Academy of ...

  • China's gold reserves stand at 1,054 tonnes

    Vice governor of the People's Bank of China Yi Gang said Wednesday that the country's gold reserves now stand at 1,054 tonnes, adding that a massive increase is unlikely in the future."We need to ...

  • 31bn texts sent in China over Spring Festival

    31bn texts sent in China over Spring Festival

    People in China sent a record 31.17 billion text messages during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, up 8.3% from a year earlier, new data reveals.The country's Ministry of Industry and Information ...

  • 530,000 'foreign experts' worked in China in 2011: official

    530,000 'foreign experts' worked in China in 2011: official

    A senior Chinese official on Monday addressed the 11th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals and revealed that nearly 530,000 foreign experts were working in China in 2011.In ...

  • China's high-speed rail network now world's longest

    China's high-speed rail network now world's longest

    The total length of China's high-speed rail network in operation totaled 7,735 km at the end of October, ranking it first in the world in terms of the size of its high-speed infrastructure, said an ...

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  • Wang Xiaochu (王曉初)

    Wang Xiaochu (王曉初)

    Wang Xiaochu is president of China Telecom and an alternate member of 17th CPC Central Committee.Born: 1958Birthplace: Weihai, Shandong ...