China Daily Brief
China Daily news Brief:The 14th China-EU leaders’ meeting will be held on February 14 in Beijing, focusing on the current European debt crisis, bilateral ties and cooperation, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said on Tuesday.
A senior economist of Detsche Bank (Asia China) said Tuesday the China Railway investment target for 2012 may be too conservative.
China’s electricity consumption growth will slow in 2012, as the world’s second-largest economy is expected to decelerate this year amid uncertainty in Europe and other developed economies.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection recently issued a notice saying if major changes happen to rail construction projects, the environmental impact should be reassessed, the People’s Daily reported Tuesday.
About 19 provinces estimated their GDP growth rate will surpass 10 percent in 2012, higher than the expected 9 percent growth rate for China’s national GDP, www.cnr.cn reported Tuesday.
China’s stocks fell on Tuesday, dragging the benchmark index down by its biggest daily loss in three weeks, over concern about a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy.
The growth rate of China’s industrial value-added output will slow to 11 percent this year from 13.9 percent in 2011, forecast Zhu Hongren, chief engineer of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), on Tuesday.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, declined 12.83 points, or 1.87 percent, to close at 673.68 points on Tuesday.
China’s stock index futures closed lower on Tuesday, with the contract for February, the most actively traded, falling 1.51 percent to close at 2,464.2 points.
Russian helicopter maker Rostvertol has partnered with a Chinese counterpart to set up a plant in northern China’s Hebei province.


