In 2005, the basic performanceposture of China’s economic growth and industrial development will be subject to the joint impact of the cyclical economic fluctuations at three levels.

In the first six months of 2005, the personal consumer price index (CPI) rose mildly. It went up 2.3 percent over the same period of the previous year, but the rate was 1.3 percentage points lower.

Coordinated regional development is determined by various factors. The following five points should be considered in formulating strategy and policy to achieve this goal.

In terms of purposes, the consumer demand for grain comprises four parts: food, feed, industrial use and seed.

Apart from the large and medium-scale infrastructure construction, China’s non-agricultural construction that occupies cultivated land mainly concentrates on the suburban areas and economically developed areas where there are more people but less cultivated land.

The assets management business is a specialized business of financial institutions aimed at increasing the value of assets of fund suppliers in the financial market.