VOA双语新闻：13、油价下跌影响美国石油开采

油价下跌影响美国石油开采 With the price of oil now less than $80 a barrel, motorists throughout the United States are benefiting from gas prices below $3 a gallon. However, the decreasing price of gas has a downside for the hydraulic frac

英闻天下——527 Property Market Still Hot Despite New Curbing Policies

The 2013 Beijing Property Expo is the first property exhibition to take place following the central government's introduction of a policy designed to curb the over-heated real estate market in April. Huang Xu is in his 30s. He is a supervisor at an i

Overcapacity a Serious Problem in Coal Industry

New analysis by the China National Coal Association through the first 7-months of this year is pointing to overcapacity still remaining a serious problem in this country's coal industry. CRI's Li Dong has more. The CNCA report shows that the country'

VOA常速英语2014--油价下跌影响美国石油开采

Falling Gas Prices Impact US Oil Extraction 油价下跌影响美国石油开采 CHICAGO With the price of oil now less than $80 a barrel, motorists throughout the United States are benefiting from gas prices below $3 a gallon. However, the decreasin

中国更多城市解除房屋限购

Shaoxing in east China's Zhejiang Province and Taiyuan in western Shanxi are the latest Chinese cities to have loosened home purchase restrictions. Over half of the cities that imposed restrictions three years ago to curb soaring housing prices have

英闻天下——41 Expert Interprets China's Property Market in 2013

Runaway real estate prices in China have been a significant source of public complaint in recent years. To curb the soaring housing prices, the government has implemented a string of policies since early 2010. However, the property market has shown s

英闻天下——31 Property Market Booms at the End of 2012

In contrast to sluggish home sales in many large cities at the beginning of 2012, the final weeks of 2012 seems to be a feast for the property market. In Shanghai and Shenzhen, developers claim that their properties are sold out as soon as the bookin

More Cities Likely to Curb Car Purchases

New statistics are suggesting car sales and output in China have gained strong momentum in the first half of the year. However, eight more cities are likely to announce restrictive policies on purchasing cars this year, which could see domestic car b

Fine signals zero-tolerance towards foreign cartels

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- For the first time, China has fined overseas companies for price-fixing on the mainland, which is a strong signal that the country will not tolerate foreign cartels any more and is committed to maintaining market disciplin

英汉对照：2011年政府工作报告摘要

The Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC)， China's parliament, opens at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing。 2011年3月5日上午9时，第十一届全国人民代表大会第四次会议在人民大会

每日一词【545】binge：毫无节制的狂热举动

今天我们要学的词是binge。 Binge, 是毫无节制的狂热举动。 A shopping binge, 狂热地购物； an eating binge, 狼吞虎咽； a drinking binge, 毫无节制地饮酒。 Colleges all over the country are trying different things to

Chinese cities rein in home prices

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- More Chinese cities have seen month-on-month declines in the prices of both new and secondhand homes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. The NBS said in a statement on its website that mo

中国推限韩令反击萨德 韩娱乐公司股价狂跌

Share prices of major Republic of Korea entertainment companies that do business with China plunged, amid increasing market worries about the potential impact of Seoul's decision to deploy an advanced missile defense system. 因韩国政府决意部署

Greece, South Korea Ban Stock Short-Sells

As global stock markets have plummeted in the last few days, both Greece and South Korea have banned the short-selling of securities - the attempt by some investors to make money by betting that their holdings will decrease in value. Monday, Greece o

沪指暴跌5.5%创最大跌幅 中信证券接受调查

Late on Thursday, it was announced that China's securities regulator was investigating the country's largest brokerage, Citic Securities. The firm is being probed over the possible breaking of market rules. 周四，有消息称中国证监会正在调

人民币对美元5月贬值1.6%

Chinas currency suffered its biggest monthly depreciation since its devaluation last August as the central bank denied claims that it had abandoned market-orientated exchange rate reform. 人民币出现自去年8月贬值以来最大单月跌幅，与

Stricter measures issued to cool China's property market

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Amid expectations of rising housing prices, China's central government on Friday rolled out specific rules to further tighten control of the property market. The government said in an online notice that homeowners who sel

经济学人:房市 该降温了

The housing market 房市 Cool it 该降温了 Property prices are rising swiftly. The Bank of England may intervene 房价一路攀登，英格兰银行可能插手 BRITAIN'S housing market is like food in a microwave, says Spencer Dale, the chief e

China's home prices rise for 3rd month

BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- New home prices in major Chinese cities continued to rise in August, signalling a moderately warming real estate market, according to data released by the China Index Academy (CIA) Monday. The average new home price in 10

苹果公司的强大势头是否快到终点

The domestic Chinese market has been in meltdown over the last few weeks. First, the government moved to curb volatility by clamping down on short selling. 中国大陆市场在过去的几个星期正在逐渐萎靡。首先，政府开始抑制卖空