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Prospects of Congo tradeCongo export, import and trade sectors are likely to receive a boost following meeting of representatives of chambers of commerce in West African countries. These people are convening in Senegal to find out various ways in which...

  Airports has become a way of life in today’s fast paced world. China airports assumes considerable significance as the number of travellers to this country has increased rapidly.   Major China Airports The main Chinese airports are listed below:...

Republic of Congo in Western Africa borders South Atlantic Ocean to its south west. Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo are the other nations surrounding this equatorial country. Agriculture, oil production and export, and forestry are...

During the last two years, the rate of growth of India's trade with china has been in excess of 35%. If this trend is sustained, China Economy could become India's largest trading partner within the next two years. This was...

The currency of China or Chinese money is called the Renminbi, which stands for the people’s currency. Renminbi abbreviates to RMB and is represented using the latinized symbol ¥, which it shares with the Japanese Yen. Yuan is the principal...

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 According to the 2008 estimates...

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...

DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL INDICATORS DEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL INDICATORSChina is the most populous country in the world with number of people crossing 1.298 billion in 2004. Data obtained from the World Bank shows a national growth rate of 0.8% during 1997-2003....

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...

  The jobs market in China has been surging since 1978, when the communist regime opened its doors to foreign investment. The continuous arrival of foreign capital boosted the Chinese economy, making it the fastest growing economy in the world....

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s employment stood at 774.80 million persons at the end of 2008. Around 306.54 million were employed in the primary industry, accounting for 39.6% of the workforce. The secondary industry employed 211.09 million...

  According to an International Monetary Fund analysis, the growth rate of the Chinese economy hit a five-year low in 2008. From an impressive double-digit rate of 12.7% in 2007, China’s economic growth plummeted to 9.6%. The IMF also revealed...

China’s central budget is prepared annually by the Chinese Ministry of Finance. Provincial budgets are also prepared by the local government. Both the budgets are presented in March, but before revealing the final figure to the public, the budgets are...

In 2007, China's electricity industry witnessed continuous growth in demand. Due to this, the industry’s annual revenues peaked at $220.7 billion. The increased demand was met by the installation of new generation capacities. Currently, the Chinese electricity industry is growing...

Inflation in China soared during the 1930s and 1940s, when the country’s economy became highly unstable. The economic scenario worsened due to a civil war in the late 1940s. Food prices soared and hit purchasing power. In the early 1950s,...