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A worker rides a bicycle past containers at a port in Shanghai December 13, 2006. A World Trade Organization report on Thursday, April 12, 2007 says China surpassed the United States as the world's second-largest exporter in the middle of last year.[Reuters]GENEVA -- China surpassed the United States as the world's second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead. Export growth from China boomed 27 percent last year, outpacing all other major trading nations, the WTO said in releasing its first batch of global trade statistics for 2006. While China finished behind Germany and the United States in total exports for the full year, it overtook the United States in the last six months of 2006 and will almost certainly finish above the US in the 2007 totals. At current growth rates, China is projected to overtake Germany as the world's biggest exporter in 2008. "China's merchandise trade expansion remained outstandingly strong," the WTO said in its 21-page report. "Office and telecom equipment continued to be the mainstay of... | |
| | Chinanews, Beijing, Feb. 9 – China’s huge trade surplus in recent years has expo | | Chinanews, Beijing, Feb. 9 – China’s huge trade surplus in recent years has exposed it to great pressure from international media. As a result, Chinese textile industry, which usually contributes to 15% of Chinese Export, has landed in an even more critical situation in its export. In 2006, sales of Chinese textiles accounted for 73% of industrial sales value in China. Domestic market became the main market for Chinese textiles, Chinese officials said on Wednesday. In 2006, China exported 147.1 billion US dollars worth of clothes, 25% more than the previous year. Calculated by export delivery value, the sales of clothes still accounted for 73.1% of the domestic industrial sales value. Last year, developed countries created many trade frictions and used anti-dumping methods to reduce the export of Chinese textiles. As a result, many orders from Europe and the United States flowed to Southeast Asian countries, seriously affecting the export of Chinese textiles in these re | |
| | Major Cities | | China now has 668 cities, of which 13 have populations of more than two million each; 24, between one and two million; 48, between 500,000 and one million; 205, between 200,000 and 500,000; and 378, less than 200,000.Beijing Beijing is a municipality directly under the Central Government and the capital of the PRC, with an urban population of 7.34 million. It is not only the nation's political center, but also its cultural, scientific and educational center, and a key transportation hub. Situated on the north edge of the North China Plain, it is sheltered by chain upon chain of mountains to the west, north and east. Its southeastern part is a plain. Beijing's temperate continental climate produces four clearly contrasted seasons: a short spring, rainy and humid summer, long and cold winter, and a very pleasant autumn.Beijing emerged as a city as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century-770 B.C.), then known as Ji. During the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) it was the capital of the State of Yan. Ji had ever since remained a city of strategic importance and a trade center for the north for well over a thousand years. Then, in the early 10th century, it became... | |
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