BEIJING – Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday urged the nation to fight “a tough and prolonged battle” against pollution to conserve energy and protect the environment in 2010, as time to meet the five-year green targets is running out.
He assured that China will play an active role to seek progress on international cooperation on climate [...]

SHANGHAI — Export deals at the 20th East China Fair, which ended Friday in Shanghai, rose 22 percent year on year to $2.73 billion, the fair organizer said.
The growth came as global economic recovery revived external demand for Chinese exports. Last year, export deals slumped 39 percent to $2.24 billion amid the global financial crisis.
China’s [...]

BEIJING — China’s statistics chief said Friday that there were problems with the method and system in calculating property prices and he promised new measures to correcting them.
The remarks were made by Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in a seminar attended by government officials, experts on property market and real [...]