Traffic and work-related accidents, which are grouped together in China's statistics, killed an average of 311 people a day during the first seven months of 2002. In all, there were 549,939 incidents, including plane and car crashes and mining and factory accidents, which claimed 65,350 lives. In July, there were 245 major accidents at work, […]
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Unemployed not finding work
More than 470,000 of the 4.64m workers laid off from state companies had found new jobs by the end of June and the remaining 4.12m were learning new skills at retraining centres, according to a Ministry of Labour and Social Security report. Unemployment insurance covered 101m people and 3.7m were receiving unemployment benefit at the […]
A study sponsored by the Asian Development Bank has found that pockets of poverty persist even in the relatively prosperous east of China as well as in the less developed hinterland. The study, based on a survey of urban households conducted by the National Statistics Bureau in 1998, found that the national rate of urban […]
'Self-examinations' of tax payments by staff at about 3,200 representative offices of foreign firms in Beijing have revealed problems of varying degrees at 1,000 of them, Xinhua reported. An official of Beijing municipal tax bureau said that the problems mainly arose from misunderstanding of tax law and that Yn64m of tax arrears had been paid. […]
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Taiwan allows direct investment
Taiwan has promulgated new rules that allow local enterprises to invest directly in mainland China, Reuters reported. The new rules, applicable from the beginning of August, put into effect changes that were agreed by Taiwan's cabinet last year, when it also approved limited direct trade links with the mainland. However, the rules still retain limits […]