Category: Asia

China’s overseas shipments of fuels fell for a second year as Beijing tightened export quotas, in part to ensure sufficient domestic supply. Gasoline exports in 2021 slid 9.1% from a Continue Reading

Last year, Chinese policymakers shook up the world’s second-largest economy just as its rebound from the pandemic was starting to wear off, unleashing a flurry of measures to address longer-term Continue Reading

China announced on Monday that its birthrate plummeted for a fifth straight year in 2021, moving the world’s most populous country closer to the potentially seismic moment when its population Continue Reading

Forecasts for the second year of strong global growth face two main dangers: the health of China’s economy and the prospect of much higher U.S. interest rates. How the world’s Continue Reading

China’s battle to contain the Omicron coronavirus variant risks choking already stretched global supply chains, manufacturing managers and analysts have warned, threatening production of goods ranging from smartphones to furniture. Continue Reading

Companies are bracing for another round of potentially debilitating supply chain disruptions as China, home to about a third of global manufacturing, imposes sweeping lockdowns in an attempt to keep Continue Reading

Construction and property sales have slumped. Small businesses have shut because of rising costs and weak sales. Debt-laden local governments are cutting the pay of civil servants. China’s economy slowed Continue Reading

 China’s GDP expands 8.1% in 2021, grows 4% in Q4 Crude throughput to rise 454,000 b/d in 2022: Platts Analytics Crude output rises 3% to hit 4 million b/d in Continue Reading