China Economic ReviewTibet The non-governmental healthcare organisation Medicins sans Frontieres is withdrawing from Tibet to focus its efforts on fighting Aids throughout China, South China Morning Post said. The organisation's 40 staff in Tibet have researched and treated Kashin Beck or big bone disease and run a water sanitation project since 1990. The director of the organisation's […]
A survey of the annual reports of 192 companies found that 54 per cent of them had misreported their profits in 2001 by more than 10 per cent, the Ministry of Finance said. Seriously inaccurate profits were claimed by 19 companies – they reported a total of Yn135m in profits when they actually lost a […]
Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, told a conference in Beijing that reforms had produced a boom in the sector over the past year. He also said that China's key weapons facilities would catch up with those in the West by 2020 and that the development of such weapons was the top […]
Soil erosion has caused crop production in Heilongjiang province to drop over the past decade from 4.5m tonnes to 2.5m tonnes, said a Ministry of Water Resources report. Zhejiang province has adopted a new regulation allowing private individuals to build and run fishing ports, Shanghai Daily said. New rules to stem capital flight […]
Political reform that aims to limit the power of the Communist Party while introducing a system of checks and balances will be introduced to Shenzhen, the Financial Times said. The new system is the brainchild of Zeng Qinghong, dean of the party's political school and a close confidant of Jiang Zemin who stepped down as […]