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Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for 1st time

The population of Japanese nationals totaled 122,423,038 across the country in 2022, down by 801,000, marking the biggest drop and the first time all 47 of the country'

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China's Hainan sees soaring duty-free sales in 2021

A tax free store in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, China, December 28, 2021. Offshore duty-free sales in south China's island province of Hainan reached 60.2 billion yuan (about $9.4 b

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China's new yuan loans reach 2.73t yuan in March, beating forecast

People's Bank of China. /CFP Chinese banks extended 2.73 trillion yuan ($416.6 billion) in new yuan loans in March, up from 1.36 trillion yuan in February, beating forecast, central bank data

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China's foreign trade up 32.2% in first 2 months

China's foreign trade of goods totaled 5.44 trillion yuan (840 billion U.S. dollars), up 32.2 percent year on year, in the first two months in 2021, the General Adminis

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China's light industry reports profit growth in 2020

Light industrial products on display at Dalian Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Center in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, November 5, 2020. /CFP China's light industry registered

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China foreign trade up 7.8% in November

China's foreign trade increased 7.8 percent year on year to 3.09 trillion yuan during November, official data showed Monday.In the first 11 months of 2020, China's foreign trade of goods totaled 29.0

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War epic film box office hits 92 million USD

The war epic film "The Eight Hundred" scored a cumulative box office revenue of more than 640 million yuan (about 92 million U.S. dollars) in China by Sunday noon. Thi

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China box office hits new high since COVID-19 outbreak

Driven by the formal release of war epic film The Eight Hundred, the daily China box office sales on Friday crossed the 100 million yuan (about $14 million) mark.The fi

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China's online personal insurance premiums up 12.2 pct in H1

China's online personal insurance market posted steady expansion in the first half of the year, with premiums rising 12.2 percent year on year, according to data from t

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Shanghai port sees container throughput hit record high in July

The container throughput of Shanghai port exceeded 3.9 million TEUs in July, hitting a record high, according to Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd. (SIPG). The port saw its container thro

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China Life Insurance reports premium income growth in H1

China Life Insurance Co., one of the country's biggest insurers, posted premium income growth in the first half of 2020. Its premium income totaled 428 billion yuan (ab

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh surpass 183,000 with record 5,580 single-day recoveries

Bangladesh reported 2,666 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total to over 183,000. Nasima Sultana, a senior Health Ministry official, said in a briefing in

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Profits of China's state firms rebound in May

The profits of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) recovered in May as economic activities gradually normalized, official data showed Monday. Month on month, the co

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China's fiscal revenue falls 13.6 pct in Jan-May period

China's fiscal revenue declined in the first five months of the year, down 13.6 percent from one year earlier, official data showed Thursday. The country's fiscal reve

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China's postal sector sees stellar growth in May

China's postal industry registered stellar growth in revenue and business volume last month as reopening of businesses gathered more steam amid further containment of

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Life expectancy of Chinese rises to 77.3 years

A woman undertaking a medical examination. /VCG The average life expectancy of Chinese citizens rose from 77 years in 2018 to 77.3 years in 2019, according to statistics released by the Chines

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Income growth of China's internet companies recovers in Jan.-April

The business income of China's major internet and related services companies rose by 4.9 percent during the January-April period to 344.6 billion yuan (48.3 billion U.S. dollars), reversing the de