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BEIJING, July 18 -- Almost no coal consumption will take place in Beijing's plain areas by 2020, the municipal development and reform commission said Tuesday.
Three years of so-called "Abenomics," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bold stimulus program, have failed to dislodge a deflationary mindset among businesses and consumers.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday that China's near-term economic outlook is positive, with an expected growth rate as high as 6.6 percent this year.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday that China's near-term economic outlook is positive, with an expected growth rate as high as 6.6 percent this year.
A regular diet of boysenberries might help ease the symptoms of asthma sufferers, according to a New Zealand government-funded study out Monday.
Young Australians are helping drive the nation to its lowest alcohol consumption levels since the early 1960s, according to a new study.
Environmentalists say government’s reduced lower limit for daily meat consumption, if followed, would cut greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and help meet global climate change goals
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought understanding from senior members of his Liberal Democratic Party on Monday over his intention to postpone the consumption tax rate hike to 10 percent by 2½ years.
Drug trafficking will not stop being a problem for countries across Latin America, given the scale of production, trafficking and consumption in the region, warned Antonio Mazzitelli, regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Beijing is exploring ways to improve the quality of the city's goods and services, as part of nationwide supply-side structural reform.
E-commerce platform Meituan&Dazhongdianping finished the world's largest online-to-offline (o2o) fundraising campaign, the company announced Tuesday.
The success of transitioning China's economy away from investment and more to consumption will be spearheaded by China's 1980s generation, according to a recent report.
BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's new policies to boost consumption have highlighted a shift in the country's economic reforms -- from stimulating consumer demand to upgrading the supply of goods and services.
China will strengthen its efforts to shore up consumption and boost domestic demand amid lingering downward pressure on the economy, according to a statement from a government meeting on Wednesday.