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BUDGET

Ministry of Land and Resources Publishes Ministerial Budget

The Ministry of Land and Resources plans to spend 6.7 billion yuan this year, almost double the amount it planned to spend in last year's budget, according to details published on the ministry's website. The central government ministry is the latest to publish details of its ministerial budget online after the Ministry of Finance led the way earlier this week.

The Beijing News | 2011-04-08

POWER

China to Introduce Stricter Conditions on Construction of Local Wind Power Proje...

China's National Energy Bureau (NEB) is in the process of drafting regulations aimed at better managing the approval of wind power projects, according to an unnamed source at the NEB.The new rules may require that local governments seek permission from the NEB before beginning work on wind power projects with a capacity of less than 50,000 kilowatt hours. The new regulations could be issued as ear...

China Securities Journal | 2011-04-08

TRANSPORT

Beijing Taxis to Raise Fuel Surcharge to 2 Yuan on Saturday

Due to the recent rise in the price of fuel, the Beijing Municipal Government has announced that the 1 RMB fuel surcharge that passengers in the city's taxis are required to pay for trips over 3km will be lifted to 2 RMB as of this coming Saturday, April 9. The fuel surcharge was introduced in November 2009 and was to apply when ever the price of #93 petrol was between 6.50 and 7.10 yuan per liter...

Qianlong Wang | 2011-04-07

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

Problems With Recruitment at Public Institutions Exposed

The CPC's Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security yesterday released details of 5 cases involving violations of rules related to the recruitment of employees at public institutions around China. The five cases included the leaking of exam questions to candidates related to current employees, the recruitment of unqualified candidates who were also related t...

Beijing Times | 2011-04-07

CAR

Electric Car Owners to be Exempt from Beijing's Driving Restrictions

To promote the development of electric cars, the Beijing government has allowed owners an exemption from the city's driving restrictions. According to an unnamed source, drivers of electric cars will not be subject to newly enacted registration restrictions in which new car owners take part in monthly auctions to register their vehicles nor will owners be required to observe driving restrictions t...

Beijing Youth | 2011-04-07

INVESTMENT

State Council Publishes Draft of New Foreign Investment Guidelines

The legal affairs office of the State Council released a revised draft of the "Guiding Catalogue of Foreign Invested Sectors" yesterday. The draft catalogue is a list of the industrial sectors in which China's central government either encourages, allows, restricts or prohibits foreign investment. The latest draft of the catalogue encourages more foreign investment in emerging strategic industrie...

China Financial News | 2011-04-07

GOVERNMENT

New Standards of Behavior for Party Leaders Will Monitor Business Interests of F...

Journalists have learned from the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention that a plan for the implementation of "standards for the behavior of leading party members" published by the Central Discipline and Inspection Commission of the CPC late last month include rules that prohibit party members and their partners or children from engaging in certain kinds of business. The plan also details how s...

The Beijing News | 2011-04-07