China Economic ReviewSummer grain output in 2002 totalled 98.75m tones, 2.9 per cent less than in 2001, Reuters reported. The decline was caused by drought in the early part of the year, followed by heavy rain in May. The summer harvest contributes 20 to 25 per cent of China's total annual output and the fall could lead […]
Sweeping changes in the recruitment and training of judges to promote "fairness and efficiency" were announced in July by Chief Justice Xiao Yang of the Supreme People's Court. Under the proposed new system judges, and a new category of assistant judges, must have proper professional qualifications in addition to the usual qualifications required of civil […]
This year's floods had killed 793 people nationwide by July 8, according to Ministry of Civil Affairs figures. Flooding had affected 100m people in 24 of China's 31 provincial level authorities. Of these, the worst affected were Shaanxi, Fujian, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guizhou. In all, the floods destroyed more than 8m […]
China attracted US$24.58bn in foreign direct investment in the first half of 2002, 19 per cent more than in the same period last year, Xinhua reported. The total for the first five months was US$16.92bn, indicating that US$7.66bn was invested in June. Contracted FDI over the six-month period was nearly US$44bn, a year-on-year increase of […]
The All-China Lawyers Association, meeting in Shanghai, was told that the number of licensed legal practitioners in China was now 110,000, up from a mere 200 in 1982. The association's general secretary, Jia Wuguang, also told members that China now had nearly 10,000 law offices, including specialists in finance, securities and property. So far, 104 […]