Growing demand has led China's yuan to overtake the Russian ruble as a currency used for global payments, according to SWIFT, a messaging system used by international banks.
Yuan takes step up as global currency
Giant frescoes served as the backdrop last night as 60 dancers in colorful costumes from China's Gansu Dance Theater performed the New York debut of the award-winning Silk Road production at Lincoln Center.
China's 1.3 billion people celebrated the two-week long Lunar New Year holiday this month, and now 39,780 people want it to be a national holiday in the US.
Two years after Best Buy Co closed all of its stores in China, one wouldn't expect that market to have much enthusiasm for the US electronics retailer.
Sinopec Group has agreed to pay $1.02 billion for 50 percent of Chesapeake Energy Corp's stake in an Oklahoma oil and gas field.
Special: Chinese enterprises in the US
Despite unfamiliar regulations, cultural barriers and high operating costs, most Chinese companies in the US describe their experience as successful.
Special: Chinese enterprises in the US
Life is like a spinning top: Whip it too lightly, and it stops. Whip it too hard, and it may stop, as well. The trick is to keep things balanced.
Since 2009, the Beijing-based art-management company Ping Pong Productions has connected Chinese and US performing artists through tours, collaborations and teaching residencies.
With the blessing presented by Rev Dayi Shi, president of the Buddhist Association of Canada and abbot of Cham Shan Temple (Canada), Fang Li, the consul general of China in Toronto, rings the peace bell to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb 9, the eve of the Lunar New Year at Cham Shan Temple, Toronto.
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