The development of Chinese green finance, the green bond market in particular, will lead investment and financing trends in Asia-Pacific, and green bonds will be a highlight of the international bond market in 2017, indicated insiders at the ICMA Asia Primary Market Forum held on 2 March in Hong Kong.
The performance of the Chinese economy in the first half of the year was steady and in line with expectations, and China is confident of achieving its main full-year development targets, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here on Friday.
China's fixed-asset investment grew 9 percent in the first half of 2016, down from 9.6 percent in the first five months and 10.7 percent in the first quarter, official data showed Friday.
Online shopping in China has soared over the past five years, becoming a key growth driver against downward economic pressure, a report showed.
China on Friday dismissed the decision by ratings agency Standard Poor's (S P) to lower its outlook on China, and urged the agency to make "objective judgement."
China's financial system is "largely stable" and foreign exchange reserves are "relatively abundant", the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said Saturday.
The Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, has been weakening against U.S. dollar since the beginning of 2016, and shows no signs of reversion.
Under the current situation where the market widely believes that the bullish bond market will continue, to reasonably cool down the bond market may promote its rational development.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and African leaders rounded off a landmark summit here Saturday with a unanimous consensus to upgrade China-Africa relations backed by a roadmap for further boosting mutually beneficial cooperation and common development.
“The Belt and Road Initiative” (hereinafter the “B&R”) is now speeding up and stepping towards detailed implementation. It is learnt by journalist from the Economic Information Daily that, as the “highlight” of foreign cooperation, specialized planning on the energy sector has been drafted at the stage of seeking for public opinions and improvement. Based on current thought, oil and gas cooperation will focus on six key fields, including “four cooperative zones” and “six industrial regions”, to establish and improve the transaction center for oil and natural gas, open up new sea-and-rail transportation line, construct oil & gas mainline in Asia, create a series of first-class international oil & gas enterprises, and enhance energy equipment manufacturing and “going out” of energy service enterprises.