2nd Ld-Writethru: China's retail sales up 16.9 pct in 2009

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's retail sales rose 16.9 percent year on year in 2009 in real terms, adjusted for inflation, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced at a press conference Thursday.

The growth rate was 2.1 percentage points higher than postcard printing that in 2008.

The volume of retail sales totalled 12.53 trillion yuan (1.84 trillion U.S. catalog printing dollars) last year, up 15.5 percent from a year earlier.

The December growth rate was 17.5 percent compared with the same period of the previous year.

For the whole year, urban retail sales increased 15.5 percent year on year to 8.51 trillion yuan, while those in counties and Fendi Replica Handbags areas under county-level climbed 15.7 percent to 4.02 trillion yuan.

The government has put into place a basket of stimulus measures, including government subsidies and tax breaks for home appliances and cars, to expand consumption to sustain the economic growth, which was slowed by a slump in exports amid the global economic downturn.

Yao Jian, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said on Jan. 15 that the government's stimulus packages had been effective in bolstering consumption. Consumption would make a bigger contribution to the economic growth in 2009, he said.

Auto sales in 2009 surged 46.15 percent to 13.64 million units, lifting China to Replica fendi wholesale the world top auto market, backed by halving the purchase tax to 5 percent on vehicles with a displacement of less than 1.6 liters in January last year.

The tax cut incentive has extended to this year, with purchase tax being raised to 7.5 percent, still lower effective as of Jan.1 this year.

2nd Ld-Writethru: China's relief material leave for quake-hit Haiti

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A Boeing-747 jumbo jet carrying 90 tonnes of Chinese government's emergency humanitarian relief material took off from Beijing Capital International Airport to quake-hit Haiti at 12:22 p.m. on Saturday.

replica bag wholesale The 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) quake-relief materials, including tents, stretchers, food, medicines, clothing and water purification equipment, is China's first batch of relief material to the Caribbean country.

The aid is part of an relief package worth 30 million yuan (4.41 million U.S. dollars) announced by the Chinese government Friday.

The flight will take 19 hours before arriving in Haiti via the American city of Anchorage, according to the Ministry of Commerce Fendi Replica Handbags (MOC).

The preparations of the quake-relief supplies was completed within 24 hours after China's decision to provide the relief material to Haiti, the MOC said.

The Chinese government has always been highly concerned about any natural disasters and large-scale health emergencies happening in the international community and will do everything within its capacity to help, said Yu Yingfu, an official with the MOC Department of Aid to Foreign Countries.

A Chinese emergency rescue team has arrived in Haiti, which was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.

Yu added that the Chinese government and people feel the same as Haiti counterparts feel about the great losses caused by the massive quake. "China will continue to pay close attention to the quake-hit country and provide necessary humanitarian aid."

2nd Ld-Writethru: China's industrial value-added increases 11 pct in 2009

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's value-added of industry rose 11 percent in 2009 from a year earlier, but the growth rate was 1.9 percentage points lower than 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.

Compared with the corresponding period of 2008, growth of quarterly value-added replica bag wholesale accelerated from 5.1 percent in the first quarter of last year, to 9.1 percent in the second quarter, 12.4 percent in the third quarter and to 18 percent in the fourth quarter, said NBS director Ma Jiantang.

The value-added of industry increased 18.5 percent year on year in December, compared to year-on-year 19.2-percent growth in November.

China uses the value-added of industry to measure business activities of some 430,000 designated large enterprises, which have an annual turnover of at least 5 million yuan (732,064 U.S. dollars).

The industrial added Chanel Replica Handbags value is a most important indicator to weigh China's industrial activities and the country's manufacturing-based economy.

The value-added of industry in western regions of the country grew 15.5 percent, outpacing the growth in central and eastern parts, which was up 12.1 percent and catalog printing 9.7 percent respectively, Ma said.

China's economy realized a V-shaped recovery in 2009 and fulfilled the 8-percent growth target set by the government for last year. Ma attributed the recovery mainly to the implementation of the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy, as well as the stimulus package adopted by the government to cope with the global financial crisis.

The country's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 8.7 percent Replica prada wholesale in 2009 from a year earlier. In the fourth quarter last year, GDP rose 10.7 percent year on year, accelerating from a quarterly growth of 6.2 percent in the first quarter, 7.9 percent in the second quarter, and 9.1 percent in the third quarter.

2nd Ld-Writethru: China's former supreme court VP gets life imprisonment

SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Former Vice Thomas sabo charms President of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Huang Songyou was sentenced Tuesday to life imprisonment for taking bribes and embezzlement.

Huang, 52, was convicted of taking more than 3.9 million yuan (about 574,000 U.S. dollars) in bribes from 2005 to 2008 by abusing his post as SPC vice president, said the Intermediate People's Court of Langfang City in north China's Hebei Province.

He was found to have embezzled 1.2 million yuan of public funds in 1997, when he was president of the Intermediate People's Court of Zhanjiang, a city in south China's Guangdong Province, according to the verdict.

The court ordered Huang be stripped of his political rights for life and all of Huang's properties be confiscated for the Replica fendi wholesale crimes.

Court hearings for Huang's case began Thursday.

The court said Huang had voluntarily confessed to the crimes during investigation and the majority of money taken illegally had been retrieved.

"But as a chief justice, Huang knowingly violated the law by trading power for money and taking a hefty sum of bribes, which has produced a bad impact on the society, and should be punished severely," said the court verdict.

A native of Guangdong, Huang became SPC vice president in 2002. He was removed from the post on Oct. 28, 2008 by Chinese lawmakers at a legislative session and stripped of his membership of the Communist Party of China.

He is the first chief judge to have been removed for law and discipline Fendi Replica Handbags violations in the history of the SPC, according to Shen Deyong, executive vice president of the SPC.

It is not immediately known whether Huang will appeal his case.

The Supreme People's Court issued a notice Tuesday, demanding an educational campaign among judges with Huang's case as a "negative example" to draw lessons from.

Judges should conduct in-depth analysis on the cause of Huang's corrupt conduct and find out their own problems to guard against risks of turning corrupt, the notice said.

The campaign, with a special focus on senior judges, will be concluded before the Spring Festival, which falls in mid February this year.

2nd Ld-Writethru: China's fixed-asset investment up 30.1 pct in 2009

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China posted a drastic increase in catalog printing fixed-asset investment in 2009 as the world's third largest economy aimed to spend more on property, roads and other infrastructures to sustain the economic growth.

The total fixed-asset investment rose 30.1 percent year on year in 2009 to 22.4846 trillion yuan (3.29 trillion U.S. dollars), according to replica bag wholesale the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures released on Thursday.

The growth rate was 4.6 percentage points higher than that for 2008, the NBS said.

Urban fixed-asset investment rose 30.5 percent from a year earlier to 19.4139 trillion yuan. The growth rate was 4.4 percentage points higher than that for 2008.

Fixed-asset investment in rural areas totaled 3.07 trillion yuan, up 27.5 percent from a year ago, and 6 percentage points higher than the growth rate in 2008.

Among urban fixed-asset investment, the growth rate in the primary sector (farming, fishing and forestry, among others) climbed 49.9 percent from a year earlier.

The industrial sector saw investment up 26.8 percent and the tertiary sector, or the service sector, which covers commerce, finance and services, posted a 33.0 percent growth.

China unveiled a 4-trillion-yuan stimulus package in November of 2008 to accelerate the economic growth which slowed to 6.1 percent in the first quarter of last year due to tumble in exports. The 4 trillion yuan stimulus plan included 1.8 trillion yuan which was scheduled postcard printing to be used to build more railroads, highways, airports and other infrastructures.

The record bank lending and government spending had Fendi Replica Handbags boosted the growth of the fixed-asset investment, Jing Ulrich, managing director and chairman of China Equities and Commodities of J.P. Morgan, said in a report.

She expected the growth would slow in 2010 as the government put restrictions on new projects investment. The investment would focus on projects that have began, she added.

Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said in December that the government would intensify management over projects approval and reject expansion projects of docks, slipways from existing shipbuilding enterprises, and new capacity building and expansion projects in aluminum electrolysis and steel sectors in three years.

2nd Ld-Writethru: China's defense ministry announces emergency humanitarian aid to Haiti

BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Replica prada wholesale China's Ministry of National Defense said here Friday that it would deliver an emergency humanitarian aid worth 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) to quake-hit Haiti on Saturday.

The aid included 20 types Fendi Replica Handbags of relief materials, including tents, stretchers, food, medicines, clothing and water purification equipment, ministry spokesman Huang Xueping said.

Huang Prada Replica Handbags said China's military departments had all been mobilized to raise the aid.

The aid Chanel Replica Handbags is part of an aid package worth 30 million yuan (4.41 million U.S. dollars) announced by China earlier Friday.

A Chinese emergency rescue team has arrived in Haiti, which was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.