China is one of the worlds’ leading producer of Coal. Thanks to the bumper supply of Coal, China used to be self sufficient and export the surplus of Coal to world market. The situation changed, however, in 2009. According to the latest estimate, China is likely to import about 105 Million Metric tons of Coal in 2009, while exporting about 22 million metric tons. Continue (继续)
China’s aluminium refining capacity continues to top world for the foreseeable future. China’s aluminium production started to pick up around 2000. Within 10 years, China surpassed EU and USA to become the world’s top producer and consumer of aluminium. Continue (继续)
China imported 290,158 tons of Copper in November, 2009 (See Article from Steel Guru). Such a figure is a strong rebound from October, and registered a 38% increase y-o-y. China is one of the world’s leading importer and consumer of Copper. Continue (继续)
China’s soybean imports continue to grow year by year. Starting from 2005, there has been an agressive move of consolidation in the domestic soybean crushing plants. Due to the volatility of Chicago Soybean future price, some crushing plant went bankrupt while others merged with some big international trading houses, such as Cargill, Bunge and ADM. Continue (继续)
It is never easy to find out the truth, including the proper value of RMB. During the last 6 months, most currencies of emerging economies have appreciated against USD except RMB. Such a fact has aroused international pressure from China’s trading partners pushing China government to reconsider the pegging policy of RMB to USD (See Article from Chinatells). Continue (继续)
Whether China economy has a risk of inflation/deflation is debatable. The inflation camp cites the fact that banks in China have printed large amount of money and channeled the liquidity into the market at a record pace especially during the first half of 2009 (See Graph from Chinatells). Continue (继续)
The Spot Iron Ore Price landed in China continues to be firmly supported in Q4 2009. During most of the time China’s imported iron ore price on the spot market is higher than the pre-negotiated long term contract price. Continue (继续)
With China’s economy topping World Newspapers’ headlines, people have reacted with doubts and critism as well. One of the common conerns on China’s economy is its excessively high investment ratio (compared to its low consumption ratio). Continue (继续)
Who drinks the most beer in this world? I guess you will come up with answers as American, British, or Germans. However, to the surprise of most people, China is the biggest consuming country of Beer. Continue (继续)
China has an ambitious plan to expand the supply of Natural Gas in the next decades. The main supply of Natural Gas comes from North West (Xin Jiang province). Continue (继续)
China government has announced new policy to continume to stimulate the auto industry (See Article from Autonews). The key points include: Continue (继续)
China’s M2 money supply continue to grow heftly at 29.74% y-o-y in November 2009, while the new RMB loans only increased 294 Billion RMB in Nov (See Article from Bloomberg). Continue (继续)
The Electricity Consumption in November 09 increased 26.9% in China, which is the fastest growth in the last 12 months (See Article from Tencent Finance). Continue (继续)
China’s Industrial production grew a staggering 19.2% in November 2009, which exceeds most of the market consensus expectation. In the meanwhile, the Urban Fixed Asset Investment grew 32.1% y-o-y in Nov 09, which is about 1% lower than that in Oct (See Article from Bloomberg). Continue (继续)
China’s Export grew a meager negative figure of -1.2% compared to Nov 2008, while the import jumped a strong 26.7% y-o-y (See Article from Associate Press). Continue (继续)
China’s CPI increased by 0.6% in November 2009 (See Article from WSJ). It is the first time that China’s monthly CPI grows in a positive number during the last 10 months. Continue (继续)
China’s Retail sales were up by 15.8% y-o-y and reached 1.13 trillion yuan in November, 2009 (See Article from China Daily). It is 0.4% lower than the growth in October and in absolute amount lower by 40 billion Yuan. Continue (继续)
China’s Auto Sales exceeded 1.35 million units in November, 2009. Such a number make China’s total vehicle sales during Jan to Nov reach more than 12 million units. On that sense, China has surpassed USA in terms of the total car sales and is likely to continue the strength through the end of the year (See Article from WSJ). Continue (继续)
As the capital of China, Beijing leads the rest of the country in terms of its housing price. According to the latest estimate, there are about 1.8 million square meters being traded in Beijing in Nov 09, fetching an average price of about RMB 17,500/square meter. Continue (继续)
China is one of the world’s biggest CO2 emission country. In the same time, China is the world’s leading country in developing green energy, such as Wind Power (See Article from Chinatells). Continue (继续)
According to The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, China’s PMI in November reads unchanged at 55.2% (See ARticle from WSJ). PMI reflects the total demand from logistic and procurement sector. Thanks to the domestic stimulus program, the PMI reads above 50 for the recent few months. Continue (继续)
Out of China’s 1.3 Billion people, about 800 million live in rural areas while 500 million live in cities. In the last ten years there has been great population migration from rural to urban area, mainly due to the difference of income between rural and urban areas. Continue (继续)
China’s Copper import in Oct of 2009 reached around 290,000 tons, which is an increase of about 32% compared to that time of last year. Despite the positive growth, the growing pace has cooled down compared to the previous few months. Continue (继续)
China’s Life Insurance Premium keeps growing every year. It increased from about 100 RMB/year in 1999 to almost 800 RMB/year in 2008. The y-o-y growth from 2007 to 2008 is almost 50%. Continue (继续)
Recently the low CAR of China Banks has been questioned (See Article from Chinatells). Due to the lower than average ratio of Capital Adequecy, the health state of China banks are in doubt. However, such doubts are unfounded. Continue (继续)
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