China consumes most, report says
344830
A booming China now consumes more grain, meat, coal and steel - but not oil - than the US, a survey says.
4046
China will be the third largest advertising economy by 2011, beating the UK and Germany, according to a report published yesterday.
491092
Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
630629
A Chinese study has found that children from wealthy families are more likely to suffer bad nutrition than those from low-income homes, partly because they eat more fast food, state media said on Friday.
31627
China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.
689537
China has overtaken the United States  as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas,  because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch  government-funded agency said on Wednesday.
406578
Floods in China killed more than 1,000 people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused 64.7 billion yuan (&#36;7.82 billion) in direct economic losses, the official Xinhua News agency said.
323192
BEIJING, March 12--China reported that its trade surplus in February surged ninefold from the same period a year earlier to $23.76 billion -- one of the highest monthly totals ever -- as top Chinese government officials reaffirmed promises to take measures to try to halt the widening gap.
158560
Surging exports helped push China's trade surplus to a six-year high of &#36;31.98 billion in 2004, the government reported Tuesday.
59053
The number of Internet users in China soared past 200 million in 2007, a new report from the country's quasi-government Internet overseer said Thursday.
628973
The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million people in the 10 years to 2002. China&#39;s first comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases found that seven per cent of Chinese adults
386749
(InfoWorld) - China now spends more on research and development than Japan, but still only invests a little over a third as much as the U.S., according to the OECD. Although China's economy is growing at between 9 percent and 10 percent a year, its R&D spending is growing even faster, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said Monday. OECD member countries need to stimulate innovation in new ways, and make their research processes more efficient if they are to compete, the organization warned. U.S. R&D spending this year will total $338 billion, compared to China's $136 billion and Japan's $129 billion, according to OECD estimates. The 15 original member states of the European Union will spend $233 billion on R&D this year, the OECD said, assuming that the countries' spending continues to grow at the same rates as between 2000 and 2004. The OECD's figures, drawn from its report "The Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006," show that 926,000 researchers are involved in China's R&D efforts, an increase of 77 percent between 1995 and 2004, while in the U.S. the figure is just over 1.3 million: China has two-thirds the number of researchers for only one-third the spending. Although the OECD compares figures for national R&D spending, a growing proportion of that investment comes from other countries, thanks to multinational companies. More than 16 percent of business-funded R&D in the OECD was performed by foreign affiliates in 2004, the organization said, up from 12 percent in 1993. The share of inward R&D funding exceeded 40 percent in five countries: Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, and the U.K. While countries compete with one another to attract this inward R&D investment, they are also competing for researchers, and the political issue of human resources is taking on greater urgency, the OECD said. The U.S. now has 9.3 researchers per 1,000 in the labor force, compared to 10.3 in Japan and only 5.8 in the 25 member states of the European Union. Replacing those researchers, or increasing their numbers, will get harder: Fewer students are graduating in science and technology subjects in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, South Korea, and the U.S., the OECD found, and in the U.S. the number of doctoral students enrolling is also falling. The European Union now produces more doctoral graduates in science and technology than the U.S. -- but it is the U.S. that offers them the most jobs: half of the 46,716 post-doctoral positions open in 2003 went to foreign graduates, the OECD noted. The OECD has 30 members states "sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy." The members include Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Turkey, the U.S. and 18 European countries including France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. The OECD Web site offers further details of the report.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
641466
China's trade surplus will reach $250-300 billion in 2007, driven by the country's price competitiveness and strong external demand, the top economic planner said on Tuesday.
600544
The rate of obesity in China has increased by 97% in 10 years, according to a government report.
139948
China needs to do more to control spending on construction, factories and other &quot;fixed assets&quot; to curb growth and cool inflation, state media reported Monday, citing top government officials.
679712
The number of Internet users in China stood at 210 million at the end of last year, up 53 percent from the same time in 2006 when there were 137 million.
392946
China's population, the world's largest, grew by almost 7 million people last year, according to an official report. China's National Bureau of Statistics said in a report released late Wednesday that the country's population was 1,314,480,000 at the end of 2006, an increase of 6.92 million people.