Growth China's top priority, inflation key risk: NDRC

China's economic policy priority is to maintain relatively fast growth, but Beijing cannot lower its guard against inflation risks, the head of the country's top planning agency, the National Development ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy is stabilizing slowly as pro-growth government policies gain traction while real estate curbs have surpressed speculation, the head of the country's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has allocated $24 billion in long-term foreign debt quotas to six fore

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy has halted its slowing trend, the head of the country's powerful economic planning agency said on Saturday, adding that he was confident GDP growth would exceed 7.5 percent in 2012. Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), was speaking to a news conference on the sidelines of the Communist Party congress which is meeting to chose a new leadership. ...

China said Friday it will provide subsidies and discount loans to encourage private investment, in the latest step by policymakers to shore up the slowing economy.Private investment accounts for more than 60 percent of China's total fixed-asset investment, the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency, said in a statement.China's policy makers are stepping up efforts to boost the world's second-largest economy after growth fell to 8.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 -- its slowest pace in nearly three years.

Global oversupply of iron ore is expected to continue as China's crude steel output enters a stable period, according to the country's top economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission.

China's economy is stabilizing slowly as pro-growth government policies gain traction while real estate curbs have surpressed speculation, the head of the country's top planning agency, the National Development ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's governme