China International Wine Culture Festival & Trade Fair which is organized by China National Food Industry Association and China Tourism Hotel Association and so on was held on 28th, April.

01-05-2007 |  332 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

Pneumoconiosis, a work-related lung disease common in the mining and cement industries, is the top occupational killer in China, according to the latest government statistics.
Since the 1950s, China has reported a cumulative total of 677,000 occupational disease cases, more than 90 percent of which were pneumoconiosis cases, said Su Zhi, an official with the Ministry of Health, here on Sunday.
Excluding Shaanxi and Tibet, the year 2006 saw 11,000 new occupational disease cases, with pneumoconiosis accounting for 76 percent, Su said.
"The proportion of pneumoconiosis cases was 1.44 percentage points higher than in 2005 and the latency period of the disease was shorter," he said.
Miners and cement industry workers develop pneumoconiosis by breathing in coal and cement dust. The disease, which has a relatively long latency, may take several decades to manifest itself, but it is deadly, said Li Tao, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to Su, 23 percent of pneumoconiosis cases had latent periods of less than 10 years.He said the coal mining, non-ferrous metal exploitation and construction industries were the three most dangerous industries, causing 41 percent, 13 percent and 6.5 percent of total work-related illnesses last year.
He also noted that 621 pneumoconiosis cases reported last year were found to involve laborers under the age of 18.

30-04-2007 |  260 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

China might boost iron ore imports by 24 percent this year as steel mills raised output faster than expected.

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China will continue to work with Tunisia to further expand bilateral reciprocal cooperation, Chinese top advisor Jia Qinglin said in Tunis Tuesday.
Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top advisory body, made the remarks during a meeting with Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi.
Sino-Tunisian trade volume last year exceeded 400 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of over 20 percent.

18-04-2007 |  168 Hit(s) | (0 vote)

China's stocks rose to a record. Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. led steelmakers higher after the company said it expects first-quarter profit to surge more than fivefold.
"Earnings growth in companies such as steelmakers is quite strong" said Fan Dizhao, who helps manage the equivalent of $1.8 billion at Guotai Asset Management Co. in Shanghai. "We expect average first-quarter corporate earnings to rise more than 50 percent from a year ago. The run-up is justifiable."
China Yangtze Power Co. gained after the company said it will sell shares in China Construction Bank Ltd. GD Power Development Co. climbed after the company said it will buy assets from its parent.
The benchmark CSI 300 Index, which tracks yuan-denominated A shares listed on China's two exchanges, gained 86.77, or 2.7 percent, to 3256.00 at the close. That's the highest since the gauge was launched in April 2005.
Shares of Wuhan Steel, China's fifth-biggest steelmaker by output, climbed to their highest since listing in August 1999. The stock rose 0.51 yuan, or 5.1 percent, to 10.59. The company said profit will gain more than 450 percent in the quarter after the price of the metal rebounded and it reduced costs. Net income a year earlier was 247 million yuan ($32 million).

17-04-2007 |  145 Hit(s) | (0 vote)