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Archive for January, 2007

Energy company Sasol plans two coal-to-liquid fuel projects

Sasol, the top energy firm in South Africa, is entering a crucial phase in planning for its two giant coal-to-liquid (CTL) projects in China. “Now we are in the second stage of feasibility studi... Read More

Fan Jixiang Pays an Official Call to Ethiopian Premier Meles

General Manager of the Group Corporation Fan Jixiang paid an official call to Ethiopian Premier Meles in the afternoon of January 24 in Premier mansion. Chinese ambassador Linlin stationing in Ethiopi... Read More

China Exim: The bank that is banking on reform

The reform of China’s three policy banks was on top of the National Financial Work Conference’s agenda in Beijing last week. Earlier, these banks had been designated to help State-sector c... Read More

Fan Jixiang Meets with Ethiopian Minister of Mineral Department of Energy

In January 22 General Manager Fan Jixiang met with Ethiopian Minister of Mineral  Department of Energy Allah Maye Hu in Addis Ababa.    Fan Jixiang first stated clearly his purposes of this visits... Read More

The Central Reporter-Group Interviews at Melowe Dam

Accopmined by Commercial Counsellor in Sudan Embassy, the central reporter group led by RenYi (from General Office of Ministry of Commercial) and Wang Haizhou (from the News Agency of the Propaganda D... Read More

Experimental Instrument of Two Angola Agriculture Institutes Purchased by the Group Corporation Passes Through Check and Accept

In the afternoon of January 19, the instrument of Angola Humbo Agriculture Institute and Bie Agriculture Institute purchased by the Group Corporation passed through check and accept formally by the An... Read More

China-ASEAN deal on trade

China and the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) signed an agreement on trade in services a week ago a major step toward establishing a free trade area (FTA) in the region by 2010. The deal... Read More

CNPC signs oil and gas contracts with Myanmar

CNPC signed contracts on January 15 with the Myanmar Ministry of Energy on conducting crude oil and natural gas exploration at three deep-sea blocks off Myanmar’s western Rakhine coast. CNPC Vic... Read More

China and ASEAN near free-trade zone deal

China and Southeast Asian countries agreed yesterday to cut barriers to trade in telecommunications, transport, tourism and other services as a key step toward creating the world’s most-populous... Read More

PetroChina and State Forestry Administration sign protocol on cooperative development of forestry bioenergy

PetroChina Company Limited and the State Forestry Administration of China signed a framework agreement on the cooperative development of forestry bioenergy on January 11. The construction of forest ba... Read More

Climate Change Could Fuel China’s Forest Fires

China could face worse forest fires and be more severely affected by wood-destroying pests this year because of global warming, a senior forestry official said today. The government would buy dedicate... Read More