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

T🎶he 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 ongoing structural reforms in the sector. The period was characterized by ...

India ranked fifth in renewable energy installed capacity in꧙ 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 of consumer goods in China rose by 8𝓡.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 2💝019, China’s pharmaceutical and medicine production declined by 7.2% y/y to 720,000 tonnes, while the sales of pharmaceuticals went down by 3.4% y/y to 700,460 tonnes. The decline in output can be linked to the ...

According to the China Iron and Steel Association (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 ﷽9% y/y, respectiv✱ely. Data from the National Bureau of ...

After the partial restructuring and the slowd𝔍own in expansion in 2018, China’s insurance industry welcomed a solid rebound at the beginning of 2019. Total premiums during the first 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 ﷺprice 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 region🦂’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 in✅ what was hitherto 🍒a wholly government-owned sector. While the market share of public sector banks has ...