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China revamping its key southern factory region (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2009 02:49 AM CST AP - China has updated an ambitious blueprint to aggressively revamp the country's key manufacturing region — a plan that has already helped cause many low-end factories to move or shut down.

China shares gain, led by power companies, banks (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2009 02:45 AM CST AP - Chinese shares rebounded Friday as investors hunted bargains and power companies rose after a government capital injection into one electricity supplier.

China plans production controls for deadly melamine (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2009 01:02 AM CST Reuters - China plans to impose production controls on melamine, the cheap industrial ingredient at the center of a milk-contamination scandal that shocked China and the rest of the world last year, a newspaper said Friday.

China plans major revamp of public hospitals (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2009 12:38 AM CST AP - China plans a major revamp of its public hospitals — criticized for their lack of access, huge fees and poor doctor services — as part of its long-awaited reform of the national health care system.

China names more Web sites for vulgar content (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 10:23 PM CST AP - China has expanded its campaign against pornography and vulgar content online, naming more than a dozen Web sites, including Microsoft's MSN, that it says need to clean up.

China's struggling airlines get tax break (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 09:27 PM CST AP - China is taking new steps to shore up its aviation industry amid global economic turmoil, giving struggling airlines a $360 million tax break and $26 billion in loans to its main aircraft maker, state media said Friday.

China's jobless migrants go home early for holiday (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 11:19 AM CST AP - Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.

Senior official says US, China ties strengthening (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 08:10 AM CST AP - China and the United States are "increasingly interdependent" following three decades of building close economic and political ties, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.

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