The Huatai Insurance Group has made an agreement with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) to invest 15 billion yuan (US$2.39 billion) in insurance funds into its latest C919 passenger jet project. This is the first such investment made by insurers to COMAC, and the domestic aviation manufacturer can choose to renew the plan after 10 years. The total assets of China’s insurance sector hit 16.4 trillion yuan, while insurance fund investment amounted to 4.5 trillion yuan, according to data from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.
150亿元保险资金将投向国产大飞机项目
Xiongan to be core hub of next-gen networks
China Telecom, one of three state-owned telecommunications giants, said it plans to make Xiongan New Area into the core hub of next generation high-speed and intelligentized information networks and speed up the commercialization of 5G mobile internet services by 2020, the Economic Information Daily reported. The new networks connecting Beijing, Xiongan, Tianjin and Baoding together with south China’s Jiujiang will be under construction in 2018, the report added.
中国电信将在雄安新区建设国家骨干网核心节点
Central bank bans use of ‘cashless’ in ads
The People’s Bank of China ordered its branches to offer guidance to digital payment companies like Ant Financial Service Group in terms of their promotions for the so-called “cashless society,” the Securities Daily reported, citing anonymous sources. The central bank reportedly said that these publicity campaigns have disrupted the circulation of Renminbi. The Wuhan branch of the bank has demanded that Ant Financial leave out the word “cashless” in their ads in end July.
央行对无现金支付最新定调 宣传中不得有无现金字眼
Alibaba to build digital home rental platform
The housing administration in Hangzhou city, Jiangsu province, will work with Alibaba and its fin-tech affiliate Ant Financial Service Group, to develop a supervision and service online platform for the housing rental market, the Economic Information Daily reported. State-owned or realtor-held rental homes and housing rented through intermediaries or proprietors will all be aggregated and traded on the platform.
杭州携手阿里巴巴蚂蚁金服打造智慧住房租赁平台
Battle for parking-sharing market heats up
Parking-sharing startup companies, which develop apps that allow users to easily locate parking spaces, are in a race to seize spaces across China. Some companies deal with private car owners, while others focus on cooperating with large parking lots, said Feng Zhidong, founder of Airparking, which owns 400,000 parking places in 10 cities. Zhu Kai, Vice President of ETCP Group, which cooperates with more than 6,000 car parks in the country, said it takes at least 2 billion yuan for a new player to enter the market due to high operational costs.
共享停车位风口来了：入场门槛20亿，有公司押注大型停车场
Software and info-tech services see steady increase
Revenue from the software and information technology services industry stood at 2.56 trillion yuan in the first half of this year, a 13.6% year-on-year increase, the Economic Information Daily reported. Total profit amounted to 303.9 billion yuan in the same period, a 12.1% year-on-year increase, while the number of practitioners hit 5.89 million, a 4.2% year-on-year increase, with average salary jumping 10.9%.
上半年我国软件业收入和利润增速逐月回升
Shandong moves to cut coal consumption
Officials in Shandong province have co-released a guidance on cutting coal consumption and ordered coal companies on the list to shut down their power units with a total capacity of 1.67 million kilowatts by the end of August, four months ahead of their scheduled closing. The move is to ensure the government will meet the target of cutting h20 million metric tonnes of coal by the end of 2017.
山东煤电去产能再出新政 魏桥集团等多个煤电机组被关停
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei equal one tenth of GDP
The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei district hit 3,819.86 billion yuan (US$573.53 billion) in the first half of 2017, roughly 10% of the national GDP, the Paper reported, citing the National Bureau of Statistics. The GDP of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei amounted to 1,240.68 billion yuan, 938.69 billion yuan and 1,640.49 billion yuan, respectively, in the same period.
上半年京津冀区域生产总值3.82万亿元，占全国10%
First-tier cities leading GDP growth
The gross domestic product of the first-tier cities, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen ranked top four respectively in the first half of 2017, with each figure exceeding 970 billion yuan, the National Business Daily reported. The GDP of five prospective first-tier cities, Tianjin, Chongqing, Suzhou, Chengdu and Wuhan surpassed 600 billion yuan. Shenzhen and Chengdu led the year-on-year growth rate of 8.8% and 8.2% respectively, exceeding the average annual growth rate of 6.9%.
主要城市经济“半年报”：深圳、成都增速领跑副省级城市
HKEx earns US$450 million in profit by June
Total revenue at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing in the first half of fiscal year 2017 reached HK$6.203 billion, a 10% year-on-year rise, Caixin reported. The attributable profit of HK$3.493 billion showed an increase of 17% from a year earlier, while shareholders earned HK$2.86 dollars per share. Chow Chung Kong, chairman of the company, said the long-term goals of the HKEx are to support the development of the real economy in mainland China, as well as to win pricing power in the global commodities market.
港交所上半年盈利35亿港元升17%