China is "playing the game" on tariff reductions and opening its domestic market following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said on the 28th of October.

Former Tanzanian ambassador to China said on Sunday that Tanzania is in dire need of China's technology and experience.

TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Ltd., one of the world's largest television makers, has announced a major restructuring of its failing European operations.

The loans provided by the Export-Import Bank of China to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have amounted to more than 50 billion RMB (6.3 billion U.S. dollars) over the past 12 years, the bank's president said on Tuesday.

China's economic growth is expected to slow to 10 percent in the forth quarter down from 11.3 percent in the second quarter and 10.4 percent in the third quarter, according to a joint study by the State Information Center (SIC) and the Shanghai Securities News.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made new proposals to boost China's economic cooperation with ASEAN in the opening ceremony of the Third China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit on Tuesday in Nanning.

China will need 2,900 new airplanes over the next 20 years, which will cost US$280 billion, said the Boeing Company in its 2006 Current Market Outlook on China, released on October 25.

At a recent briefing on the economic and financial situation of the quarter, Liu Mingkang, chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission pointed out that Chinese banking sector now is facing four major risks and challenges: impulsive investment leads to rigid growth of long-term and medium-term loans; non-prudential loans create more credit risks; vulnerable segments of risk management are further exposed; electronic banking creates new challenges to risk management.

The all-round growth of China-ASEAN business ties has brought "substantive economic benefits" to both sides and become an "important basis" and "strong driving force" for boosting the overall China-ASEAN relations, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Nanning Tuesday.

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China's largest oil producer, is preparing to resume exploration of the Ahdab oil field in Iraq.