Energy-hungry China breaks ground in Middle East
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ZEBQIN, Lebanon  - At the bottom of a deep pit gouged by a bulldozer, a Chinese soldier in a protective visor shovels aside earth to reveal an unexploded bomb left over from Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Africa bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans. But he also has brought a new recognition of the downside of China's aggressive quest for the continent's resources.
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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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Britain's Gordon Brown arrived in China on Friday on his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
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China needs to invest $120 billion in the next five years to generate enough electricity to meet its huge demand for power and reduce crippling power shortages, state media said on Monday.
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Britain's Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
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China is taking its long-standing investment in Zimbabwe to new heights, as Air Zimbabwe starts bi-weekly flights to Beijing.
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China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy &#151; the world's No. 2 oil consumer &#151; but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.
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Gordon Brown arrived in China Friday for his maiden visit as prime minister, with tackling climate change and boosting two-way trade and investment top of the agenda.
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MICRON Technology, the worldâs number two maker of computer memory chips, is planning to build its first plant in China by 2005.
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China&#039;s premier visited this oil-producing state Monday as part of a seven-nation African tour to sign deals to keep natural resources flowing to the booming Chinese economy and shore up support in Beijing&#039;s diplomatic rivalry with Taiwan.
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Chinaâs second quarter growth exceeded forecasts, but the economy faces rising food prices, high energy consumption and a large trade imbalance.
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China's booming economy has fuelled a 40% jump in crude oil imports so far this year, official figures show.
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The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the countryâs provinces in recent weeks.
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FLEDGLING space power China today launched a satellite from a remote desert region for a short-term scientific mission, state media reported.
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China is set to become to the world's largest consumer of energy by 2010, a report claims.
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group RD.AS  SHEL.L said it would jointly operate 180 gas stations in  China by the end of 2004, the second foreign oil major after BP  to enter the country's huge but tightly controlled retail  market.