Archive for June, 2007

Chinese rail firm eyes Indonesian projects

The China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) is now eyeing railway projects in Riau and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Riau Governor Rusli Zainal was quoted Friday by English daily The Jakarta Post as saying CREC had come up with a pricing scheme for the 400-km railway project with trains able to travel at [...]

Indonesia may buy rice from China

Indonesia may buy rice from China to meet domestic demand amid unsmooth deliveries from main suppliers Thailand and Vietnam, local press said Friday.
Rice import is a sensitive issue in the agriculture-based Indonesian economy but falling output has forced the government to buy 1.5 million tons of rice from Vietnam and Thailand.
However, supplies from the two [...]

China becomes 2nd largest exporter of auto parts to U.S.

China overtook Germany in the first quarter to become the second largest exporter of automotive spare parts to the United States, Shanghai Securities News reported Friday.
China exported 1.936 billion U.S. dollars worth of auto parts to the U.S. in the first quarter this year, pipping Germany which notched up 1.934 billion U.S. dollars, according to [...]

China’s cotton sales jump by 51.7% to 5.46 mln tons

China National Cotton Reserves Corporation (CNCRC) said on Friday that cotton sales had jumped by 51.7 percent year on year to 5.46 million tons by June 6.
The survey found that 6.34 million tons of cotton had been processed during the same period, up 19.6 percent.
According to a survey conducted by the CNCRC, the price of [...]

China starts to import U.S. cherry

China has begun to import cherry from the United States, with the first batch tested safe after arrival by air, said the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
The total 216 boxes of cherry, weighing 1,080 kilograms, came from California, one of major cherry growing bases in the United States.
The fruits were tested to be up [...]

China buys French flight simulator

China’s civil aviation regulator and France-based Thales Group recently held a signing ceremony on the purchase of a flight simulator in Beijing.The General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) and China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Group Corporation (CASC) signed a contract to buy a set of full-operational Airbus A320 flight simulator from Thales [...]