Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'China industrial production'

Beijing: China Deceleration On Track

Source of chart: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/    By John Richardson THERE has been a hugely important shift in the attitude of China's central government. In the old days, when they set a target of say 12% national industrial production growth for...

China Govt Confirms Post-CNY Labour Shortages

The great news behind rising labour costs: Shan Dalin, pictured with his family, is a crane operator from Southwest China's Guizhou province who has worked in eastern Zhejiang province for 10 years. In 2012, Shan's monthly income rose to...

China Jan PMIs Tell Different Stories

Source of picture: Imaginechina/Rex Feature   By John Richardson ONE can interpret last week's release of January purchasing manager's indices for January just about any way you like. Thus, Reuters wrote on 2 February: "China's official PMI released by...

China Stimulus Confusion

By John Richardson THERE was much talk last week about $158bn worth of new infrastructure projects in China that have received fast-track approval from the central government. But is this just a lot of noise to boost financial and commodity markets?...

Asian Polyolefin Prices Tumble

By John Richardson Asian polyethylene (PE) prices slumped by $90-130/tonne last week on the eurozone crisis, the fall in oil prices and the imminent arrival in China of large volumes of Iranian material, according to ICIS pricing. A further...