Higher oil prices to trim China's 2004 GDP growth
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Surging oil prices could moderate China's economy this year as rising costs push inflation higher, hitting corporate profits and consumer pocket books, analysts and state press said.
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Oil prices climbed again yesterday, closing above $55 a barrel for the first time, on concerns that supplies will be stretched thin this winter while demand from China remains solid.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, said global growth and economic activity in China are slowing, partly as higher oil prices curb spending.
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China will spend about $3.4 billion over two to three years laying thousands of miles of oil pipelines to help secure its energy supply in the face of soaring prices and demand.
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China will do more to save energy and cut pollution in 2007 while striving to keep its economy humming following four straight years of double-digit growth, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday.
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China can claim some success in the battle to cool its roaring economy in 2004 with a series of macro policies helping prevent another boom-bust cycle, but much remains to be done if Beijing is to avoid increasing wrangles with trade partners.
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China&#39;s economy grew so rapidly in the first half of 2007 that it is likely to overtake Germany as the world&#39;s third-largest by the end of this year, analysts say.
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Soaring oil prices could shave as much as one percentage point from Asia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year, forcing the region to make painful adjustments, the United Nations said.
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Crude oil futures rose to a record $55.39 a barrel in New York after the release of a report showing that the Chinese economy grew more than expected last quarter.
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The world economy, powered in part by China, will grow this year at its briskest pace in almost three decades -- five percent -- before losing steam in 2005 in the face of higher oil prices, the IMF said.
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Oil prices struck a fresh record above  $48 a barrel on Thursday, spurred higher by renewed violence in  Iraq and fresh evidence that strong demand growth in China and  India has not been slowed yet by higher energy costs.
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China&#39;s real gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to average around 9 percent in 2004 andto slow to about 7.5 percent in 2005, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday.
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China's economy grew by 9.5 percent in the first three quarters of 2004 compared to the same period last year, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced.
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Oil prices hit record highs on  Thursday, fueling gains in some energy stocks, but fears that  high power costs will dent household incomes, raise firms'  expenses and hurt global growth weighed on Asian share markets.
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Record oil prices will not sink the US economy and China is moving toward a more flexible exchange rate that also helps safeguard world growth, a top US Treasury official said on Thursday.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) raised its 2004 economic growth forecast for the region to seven per cent from 6.8 per cent due to surging exports, but cut its 2005 estimate as it sees China&#39;s expansion slowing.
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Oil closed above $55 a barrel yesterday for the first time as traders worried about low stockpiles of heating oil and strong economic growth in China.