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Hot Topics Home> Web> 10th NPC & CPPCC, 2007> Hot Topics RSS Feed Legislation  The Property Debate Attempts to draft a law to protect individual property rights have prompted debates about the nature of Chinese socialism  Drafting the New Law  Top Legislature Year End Review The Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) deliberated 24 draft laws and law-related resolutions and adopted 15 since its last meeting in March 2006 More Socialist Countryside  Short on Loans Statistics from PBC show that less than 60 percent of farming households can get loans from the banks, and the amount received was only a portion of what they...  Financing the Countryside According to China's Law on Commercial Banks, the lowest registered capital for establishing a national commercial bank is 1 billion yuan while that for a city commercial bank is 100 million yuan.  Meeting the Real Needs of Farmers The reform experiences in the past decade or so show that programs that do not take farmers' fundamental interests and real demands into consideration, or those that do not follow market rules, are doomed to failure. More 11th Five-Year Plan  China Awards Top Prize to Scientists, Enterprises "Science and technology plays a fundamental role in the country's modernization process," said Premier Wen Jiabao at the ceremony...  IPR Development in National Plan It is expected that the number of patent applications in China will maintain their annual growth rate of 10 to 20 percent over the next four years, Yin told reports at a press conference yesterday in Beijing  Keeping a Promise Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent tour of Africa gives a concrete base to commitments made at the China-Africa Summit More Environment  Pollution Problem Gets Systematic Help The State Environmental Protection Administration will allocate 2 billion yuan from the central budget to establish a statistics, monitoring and tracking system in an effort to cut emissions, according to SEPA Minister Zhou Shengxian  Local Gov't Put atop Energy Saving, Pollution Reduction China has committed itself to improving energy efficiency -- its goal is to cut energy consumption by 20 percent per unit of GDP, along with a 10 percent cut in major pollutants, between 2006 and 2010  SEPA Establishes 3 More Watchdogs "SEPA has set up two regional environmental watchdogs in Guangzhou and Shanghai and will launch another three in Chengdu, Xi'an, and Shenyang ... More IPR  Black DVD Market Gets New Black Eyes With the government socking away at pirated copies, the business community comes in with a big left hook: legal versions that sell well  IPR Development in National Plan It is expected that the number of patent applications in China will maintain their annual growth rate of 10 to 20 percent over the next four years, Yin told reports at a press conference yesterday in Beijing  Cooperating on IPR Protection U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who was then visiting China, attended the signing ceremony. He said that inter-enterprise cooperation of this kind would become another "strategic weapon" in the two countries' joint fight against piracy More Olympics  Beijing Mayor Calls for More Greening More efforts should be made to green and beautify the city in 2007, the decisive year for the preparation of the 2008 Olympic Games, the mayor added...  Western Diet Given 'Priority' During Games A group of dieticians and culinary experts will test the prospective menu and evaluate it before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) makes a final decision  Olympic Volunteers to Undergo Training for HK Equestrian Event Riordan, who also trained volunteers at the Athens and Sydney Olympic Games, said the training program is not simple despite it comes with just one Olympic event More Business  Virtual World, Real Fortune The online gaming market of China reached 6.54 billion yuan last year, up 73.5 percent compared with 2005. The industry took in a mere 310 million yuan...  Biopharm Beckons Investors The industry is heating up worldwide, but particularly in China  Organizers See Tenfold Increase in Franchise Stores The current 600 franchised stores, mostly in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, were insufficient to cover small and medium sized cities More Trade Imbalance  Balancing Act "Cutting the huge trade surplus is the priority task for 2007," said Bo. "The yawning surplus with the US and the EU has strained China's foreign trade environment  New Deputy Takes Aegis of Sino-US Strategic Talks Beijing and Washington are set to hold the second round of their strategic dialogue in May, following the first meeting held in Beijing last December  China's Focus in 2007: Trade Imbalance and Domestic Consumption China would endeavor to raise the efficiency of foreign capital utilization and encourage overseas investment and international business from domestic enterprises, she said. More China-African Relations  Keeping a Promise Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent tour of Africa gives a concrete base to commitments made at the China-Africa Summit  Increasing Rapprochement In a written interview with Beijing Review, Eleih-Elle Etian, Cameroon's Ambassador to China and dean of the Group of African Ambassadors, discusses China's burgeoning relations with Africa, especially with Cameroon, which was the first leg of Chinese President Hu Jintao's eight-nation Africa tour  Voyage to Africa President Hu Jintao's visit to eight African countries highlights the Chinese Government's emphasis on Sino-African relations and China's resolve to promote these ties More Back to the top

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