China’s Chongqing Machinery and Electric has launched pre-marketing for a Hong Kong listing that is expected to raise about $200 million. Sources told Finance Asia that the company will use the money to expand its production lines. Based in the city of Chongqing in Sichuan province — yet...
On May 19, some of the injured in Sichuan quake-hit areas were transferred to Chongqing to receive medical treatment. The Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice asking four provinces and cities neighboring Sichuan, including Chongqing, to accept and treat the injured who come from disaster...
CHENGDU, May 20 (Xinhua) -- People in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, have become accustomed to gathering in the middle of the road after anything unusual, hoping to improve their chance of survival in case of a major aftershock. A forecast of a strong aftershock in Sichuan Province late on Monday...
The toll in the killer earthquake that ripped through southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan last week has now crossed the 40,000-mark and more than 30,000 are still missing, the authorities tasked to provide quake related information said Tuesday.
China's top anti-craft official He Guoqiang appreciated on Monday the support from Chongqing Municipality in the relief work of the country's worst disaster in decades. After mourning quake victims in Beijing Monday afternoon, He immediately flew to Chongqing, a major relief supplier to...
CHONGQING, China--The people of this city stood stock-still and bowed their heads for three minutes of silence beginning at 2:28 P.M. local time this afternoon, solemnly observing the one-week anniversary of the earthquake that the government estimates has killed nearly 35,000 people in Sichuan...
PetroChina Co Ltd, China’s biggest oil and gas producer, has renewed works at a major oil products pipeline in southwestern China's Sichuan province, following Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake. The pipeline, linking Lanzhou, Chengdu and Chongqing city, resumed operations yesterday afternoon...
A train left quake-hit Sichuan Province carrying 206 injured people for further treatment in Chongqing. The train, which set off at 10:20 a.m. from Mianyang, the worst-hit area in the 8-magnitude quake on May 12, is expected to reach the north railway station in Chongqing six and a half hours...
The first group of 200 quake injured were evacuated by train Monday morning from here near the epicenter of Sichuan Province to neighboring Chongqing Municipality for treatment. Wang Guoqiang, vice health minister, said 2,000 injured were planned to be evacuated to hospitals in Chongqing, where...
The Chinese National Meteorological Center(NMC) predicted on Sunday that rains or even thunderstorms might sweep several quake-hit localities next week and would add to difficulties of disaster relief work. The NMC said Sichuan, Chongqing, and southern Gansu and Shaanxi provinces would see mild...












