Undoubtedly, while rising wages and costs sap growth in the coastal and eastern regions that have led China’s exports and growth during the past three decades, western regions with skilled labor are turning into magnets for global companies that are either transferring bases or adding investment in the region.

Local prosecutors in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality prosecuted 473 people for duty-related crimes in the first four months of this year as it vowed to further crack down on abuses of power.

CHONGQING – A team headed by Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless has been brought in to help develop the biomedical industry in Chongqing municipality, according to an agreement signed Tuesday.

CHONGQING – Chongqing municipal police have vowed better protection of foreigners in the megacity for business, study or tourism, in the wake of a scandal involving the death of British national Neil Heywood.

Over the years, aircraft, spacecraft and spare parts have been Seattle’s largest exports to China. But if Mike McGinn, the mayor of Seattle, has his way, the pride of place would soon be taken by the city’s green exports to China. During a recent trip to Chongqing municipality in Southwest China, McGinn’s team inked a memorandum of understanding to enhance cooperation in the green building sector with the fastest growing city of China to promote sustainable development.