Former Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan arrived in Taiwan yesterday to attend a gathering of entrepreneurs from Taiwan and China.

The Chinese oil giant CNOOC completed its US$15.1 billion purchase of Canada's Nexen energy group on Monday, in what analysts have said is China's largest foreign investment.

China's manufacturing growth hit a four-month low in February but remained positive, British banking giant HSBC said Monday, noting that the world's second-biggest economy was still recovering slowly.

Rising sovereign debt levels in advanced economies are spawning a crisis that threatens to topple the dollar and other reserve currencies, a Chinese credit ratings agency warned Monday.

Chinese handset makers will lead an onslaught on smartphone titans Samsung and Apple when the world's biggest mobile fair opens Monday in Barcelona.

European Union imports of tinned mandarin products from China were hit by a special anti-dumping duty on Friday to protect producers in Europe with high production costs.

China will likely become a high-income country in 10 years, if the agricultural modernization process is able to sustain the country's economic development, a senior policy adviser said on Thursday.

The Chinese mainland is turning to more partners around the world to launch the next phase of yuan internationalization, with each partner selected to play a role.

China has a new status its government doesn't want — world's biggest trader. Trade data from both governments indicate China passed the United States last year in total imports and exports by a margin of US$3.866 trillion to US$3.822 trillion. That is about US$44 billion, or just over 1 percent of China's total.

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei said on Monday it had not worked with an institute in Singapore on any projects in the specialist field of an American engineer who died mysteriously last year shortly after leaving the institute.