Environmental
Pollution and Health
Six heavily polluting industries, all
involving manufacturing, will move out of Beijing, said a senior official of
the Beijing municipal government during a dialogue with citizens on
March 8.
China’s
slowing economy and tougher government anti-pollution efforts are taking a toll
on its steel mills, rattling the world’s biggest producer of the alloy and
flashing worries of a potential downturn in the global iron-ore trade.
As pollution lowers quality of life for
many foreigners, smaller or coastal cities are becoming a magnet thanks to a
good environment, reports Zhang Yuchen
China’s
Role in Global Trade
Australia
and China have agreed to
enhance offshore market development of the Renminbi (RMB) and the central banks
of both countries are working together on potential future clearing and
settlement arrangements in Sydney,
Treasurer Joe Hockey said in a press release on Friday.
The U.S.-China relationship is important
and evolving. It will define the world's economic trajectory in the 21st
century.
How
does environmental pollution influences supply chain model
The well-achieved targets by lenders
showcases that fact that recent green credits efforts in many regions are
productive, according to statistics in 2013, which led bankers to rethink their
"green finance" strategy.
Grain,
Poultry and Food Security
Residents of provincial capital in west China flock to
supermarkets to stock up on mineral water after government admits water supply
contaminated by potentially deadly toxic chemical.
Related:
Following in the footsteps of the rich and
famous in the West who’ve launched their own food empires — from Whole
Foods to Duchy Originals — wealthy Chinese are now turning their eyes to
food as the new frontier.
China Shengmu Organic Milk and Beijing
Sunlon are planning to raise as much as $1.3 billion combined from Hong Kong
IPOs this year, tapping into investor demand for access to China's dairy
industry.
China's
inflation came in just below expectations for March, suggesting domestic demand
remains soft as the economy loses momentum.
China has allowed Brazilian corn imports to start this month, a further
blow to U.S.
exports to the world's No. 2 consumer of the grain already hurt by the
discovery of an unapproved genetically modified strain in shipments.
Tyson Foods (TSN_), privately held Cargill, JBS (JBSAY_) and Leucadia
National's (LUK_)National Beef are among
the meat processors ready
to jump into China should the market re-open to U.S. beef, according to Joel
Haggard, senior vice president for the Asia-Pacific division of the U.S. Meat
Export Federation.
China has long faced unfavorable food math: It feeds a fifth of the
world’s population on a seventh of its available land—and not the world’s most
fertile, Beijing
often complains. So the question in global agriculture markets has often been,
Why not speed up use of genetically modified food?
