20210418 China News

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Though global bulk commodity price hikes may bring certain impact to some industries in China, raw material prices of the country's upstream industries do not have the logic for long term increase, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday when responding to a question on the recent increases in commodity price.
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Chinese enterprises outnumbered the US on Fortune 500 list for the first time in 2020, according to a Handelsblatt newspaper report on Thursday, which said the China's industrial leaders are conquering the world's market.
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China's economy grew at a record pace in the first quarter of 2021, surpassing other major nations in its pandemic recovery, The Washington Post reported Friday. China's economy grew 18.3 percent year-on-year in the January-March quarter of 2021, as strong domestic and foreign demands powered recovery from a low base in early 2020, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Businesses in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were confident in their performance in the first quarter and stood upbeat on Q2 growth, a report by the Standard Chartered showed.
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The Chinese mainland on Friday reported one new locally transmitted COVID-19 case in Yunnan Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Saturday.The same day also saw 14 new imported cases on the mainland. Of them, three each were reported in Shanghai and Guangdong, two each in Tianjin, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and one each in Inner Mongolia and Zhejiang.
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China on Friday again urged Japan to prudently handle the issue of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant based on full consultation with relevant countries and international institutions.
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Stocks of fishery and environmental protection companies listed in China's A-share market have been moving in opposite directions ever since concerns arose over Japan's decision to release more than 1 million metric tons of contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Fishery-related stocks fell while green-themed shares soared on two consecutive trading days.

Source:Globaltimes,Xinhuanet,Chinadaily,Shine,Gdtoday，China Plus News

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