Manufacturing investment maintained a relatively high growth rate, climbing 10.4 percent year-on-year during the same period.

Shanghai will set up eight carbon monitoring stations as part of national efforts to reduce emissions, according to the Shanghai Bureau of Ecology and Environment.

China has established a mineral resource group with a registered capital of 20 billion yuan ($2.97 billion) in Xiongan New Area.

China is set to start production of the world's largest coal-to-ethanol plant in September, which will be capable of producing over half a million metric tons of the key industrial ingredient each year, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Of the 50 major goods monitored by the government, including seamless steel tubes, gasoline, coal, fertilizer.

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:The inaugural meeting of China Mineral Resources Group Ltd was held in Beijing on Monday, a mineral resource group with a registered capital of 20 billion yuan ($2.97 billion) in Xiongan New Area, North China's Hebei province, according to Xinhua News Agency.