The natural resources and the mining sector are essential for China’s sustainable economic growth. Due to surging power consumption and industrial progress, the country already becam🧸e the world’s largest consumer of materials such as coal ...

The first 🐠quarter of 2019 witnessed a continuous growth of China’s healthcare sector. The country promoted the implementation of the Healthy China Initiative, as well as ong🎀oing structural reforms in the sector. The period was characterized by ...

India ranked fifth in🍌 renewable energy installed capacity in the world in 2018. Renewable energy sources accounted for around 20.1🐽% of total installed electricity generation capacity in India by the end of FY2018. Wind energy is the dominant form of ...

In the first quarter of 2019, total retail sales o꧋f consumer goods in China rose by 8.3% y/y to RMB 9,779bn, following a ෴3.5% y/y increase in the last quarter of 2018. The improved performance was attributed to higher retail sales, a result of higher ...

In the first quarter of 2019, China’s pharmaceutical and medicine production declined by 7.2% y/y to 720,000 tonnes, while the saleౠs of pharmaceuticals went down by 3.4% y/y to 700,460 tonnes. The decline in output can 𝓡be linked to the ...

According to the China Iron and Steel Assoꦍciation (CISA), in the first quarter of 2019, China produced 231.1mn tonnes of crude steel and 269.1mn tonnes of steel products, up by 8.9% y/y and 𒅌9% y/y, respectively. Data from the National Bureau of ...

After the partial restructuring and the slowdown in expansion in 2018, China’s insurance industry welcomed a solid rebound at the beginning of 2019. Total premiums during the firsꩲt quarter resumed a double-digit 🎐annual growth rate of 15.9%, ...

China food sector’s revenue in the first quarter of 2019 fell by 10.3% y/y to RMB 446.7bn, mainly due to the decline in some major food prices. In Q1 2019, pork price slid by 1.2% y/y. The prices 🎶of aquatic products and refined edible vegetable ...

Southeast Asia is an important player in the hydrocarbon industry, being home to a tenth of the world’s natural gas reserves and nearly 3% of the global oil reserves. The rꦅegion’s share in global natural gas production stood at 16.5% in ...

The seeds of banking sector liberalisation were sown in the 1990s when the government began allowing the entry of privately owned participants i𒀰n what was hi𝐆therto a wholly government-owned sector. While the market share of public sector banks has ...