Category: China

China Environment

China, the new superpower, is rapidly growing its consumption of the world’s natural resources. In Africa and Central Asia, the country is exploring oil fields. It is searching for gas in Burma, constructing hydropower units in Mekong, exploiting minerals and coal in Australia and destroying forests in the Indonesia. China’s massive appetite for raw materials is taking a toll on nature, causing massive environmental damage and helping to push the planet’s ecological system to the limits.

China money, Chinese money

China Unemployment

According to the 2008 estimates by China’s National Bureau of Statistic, the total number of the urban unemployed was 8.30 million. The country’s total unemployment rate stood at 4.0%.

Year-on-year estimates of China’s unemployment rate

China Population, Chinese Population

China’s population has always drawn the attention of economists, as this Asian nation is the world’s most populated country. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2008, China’s population stood at 1,328.02 million people. This staggering number represented an increase of 6.73 million from the previous year’s figure.

Chinese Business Demography And Social Indicators

DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL INDICATORS

China Gas

As the Chinese government seeks to reduce pollution while increasing energy production, the China gas industry is gaining increasing importance. Gas production reached 76.1 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2008, and with an increasing number of gas reserves in the nation that figure will only grow.

Key China Gas Reserves

Chinese Onshore Gas Reserves: Songliao basin, Sichuan basin, Junggar basin, Tarim basin and Ordos basin.

India China Economy, Indo-china trade relation

Among the most encouraging recent developments in India China Economy and India-China ties is the rapid increase in bilateral trade. A few years ago, India Inc had a fear of being swamped by Chinese imports. Today, India enjoys a positive balance of trade with China.In 2004, India’s total trade to China crossed US $13.6 billion, with Indian exports to China touching $ 7677.43 million and imports from china at US $ 5926.67 million. But major industry players in India feel there is no need to give the Chinese a free ride into the domestic market so early.

China Population Growth

Think about vast population and China is the first country that comes to mind. It is also the world’s most populous country but has achieved tremendous success in controlling China population growth. In mid 2008, the country’s population stood at 1.3 billion.

China’s population growth and uneven distribution span two periods. From 1949 to 1970, the population growth was dispersed evenly but from 1970 to 1990, the population disparity increased and concentrated in the east of China.

China Oil