The current 10-year railway ministry bonds are yielding 5.2%, compared with 5.04% for the same type of debt issued by the State Grid Corp. of China, the world's largest utility by revenue.
The state-owned Bank of China just opened the first U.S.-branch savings account denominated in Chinese yuan.
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Behind all the buying, many experts believe, is the State Reserve Bureau of China.
The State Grid Corporation of China covers 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, while the China Southern Power Grid Co.
Given the parlous state of urban China's social-security system, peasants would continue to regard land as a vital safety net, to be relinquished only in extreme circumstances.
Mr. Lu, manager at a power plant in eastern China, a unit of the state-owned China Guodian Corp.
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Apple has been the target of criticism in China's state-run media since the middle of last month.
"The investigation team of State Council (China's cabinet) will release the final investigation result soon, " she said.
America's very public intervention, after a long weekend of seeming indifference while the president and the secretary of state were off in China, came as a shock to Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
Currently, 80 percent of the bonds issued in China are backed by State credit and most of the rest come from large companies that have AAA or AA ratings.
China announced on State TV that the Peoples Bank of China was going to allow fresh appreciation of the yuan, and undertake its bit for global rebalancing.
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Thanks to the healthier state of its banking system, China is perhaps the only big economy where credit has heated up rather than frozen in recent months.
In late 1998, 54 of them, most in their late 20s and 30s, responded to an independent survey on the state of the arts in China.
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Kerry's visit to Beijing has produced some measure of agreement with the secretary of state claiming that China is "very serious" about the denuclearisation on the peninsula.
The proposed Wanxiang deal for A123 is important for what it says about the electric vehicle industry generally, and the state of the industry in the United States and China, respectively.
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In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Insofar as the world depends on China's growth, the state of the Chinese banking system is the world's problem.
The former secretary of state turned to China to spotlight an employment success story.
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The results of that audit were sent to the State Council, China's cabinet, which ordered the police investigation, police said.
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Because of the Gaza situation, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled a trip to China, the U.S. State Department said Sunday.
Between 1995 and 2002 (the latest figures available) the number of such jobs fell by 15m in China, mainly due to the restructuring of inefficient state-owned enterprises.
"I feel like I'm standing at the crossroads of history, " Chen said ahead of the visit, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.
In Chongqing, among the 9 million former farmers who took manufacturing and service jobs over the last nine months, around four million of them left the state to do so, China Daily reported.
Calls to the importer and to China's regulatory agency, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, were unanswered.
In 2011 Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, visited China to drum up investment.
His company has factories in both China and the state of Indiana.
The financial difficulties of the Railways Ministry have begun to affect state enterprises, such as China CNR Corporation, a train maker.
The US has approved the sale of Canadian oil firm Nexen to China's state-owned CNOOC, clearing the way for the deal to be completed.
Over the past few years, state-owned financial institutions, mainly the Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank, have extended tens of billions of dollars to Brazil, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other countries.
On Sunday the state-run China News Agency said a middle school in the nearby town of Baoxing had been heavily damaged.
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