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BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's retail sales of consumer goods grew 18.7 percent in November year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Saturday.Retail sales of consumer goods stood at 1.39 trillion yuan (208.1 billion U.S. dollars) in November and the growth rate was 0.1 percentage points higher than that in October, the NBS spokesman Sheng Laiyun said at a press conference.Retail sales of consumer goods in the January-to-November period reached 13.92 trillion yuan, up 18.4 percent from the same period last year.The growth rate in the January-to-November period was 0.1 percentage points higher than that in the January-to-October period.The NBS said urban consumption hit 1.2 trillion yuan in November, up 19 percent year on year.Rural residents spent 186.5 billion yuan on consumption goods in November, up 17 percent year on year.In breakdown, catering sector sales rose 19.6 percent to 160.1 billion yuan in November from a year earlier, while retail sales increased 18.6 percent to 1.23 trillion yuan in November year on year.

BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature said Monday in a statement that it will continue discussing a draft amendment to the Criminal Law, which proposes tougher punishments for those involved in organized crime and drink-driving.Members of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee will discuss the draft amendment at an upcoming bi-monthly session scheduled for Dec. 20-25, according to a statement issued after a meeting of the chairman and vice-chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over by chairman Wu Bangguo.The legislature conducted the first reading of the draft amendment in August.Wu Bangguo (C), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), presides over the 54th chairpersons' meeting of the 11th NPC Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2010. NPC Standing Committee members will also continue to discuss a draft revision of the Law on Water and Soil Conservation, and to review a law on safeguarding China's intangible cultural heritage.According to the statement, they will consider a bill on a draft resolution to convene the fourth annual session of the 11th NPC.The NPC annual session will examine three reports from the State Council on boosting economic and social development in ethnic minority areas, deepening reform of health care system and stepping up the development of the service sector.

BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has said finance should play a vital role in the country's macro control policies, while ensuring and improving people's livelihoods should be the priority of public finance.Li, speaking Monday at a national finance work conference, said China would stick to its proactive fiscal policy in 2011 and better handle relations between maintaining steady and relatively fast economic development, restructuring the economy and managing inflation expectations, according to a statement released on Tuesday.The country will also put more focus on stabilizing overall commodity prices and promoting a balance between supply and demand to ensure basic livelihoods for residents, Li said.Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (C) speaks at a national finance work conference in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2010. He pointed out that finance should play a larger role in accelerating the transformation of the country's economic development pattern.Fiscal policies should focus on boosting domestic consumption, increasing fiscal and taxation support to innovation, energy saving and industrial upgrading, and deepening the reforms in fiscal and taxation systems to make the systems conducive to the country's scientific development, Li said.China should improve the structure of fiscal expenditure and give fiscal policies full play in adjusting income distribution to improve people's livelihoods, he said.Further, Li said the country would build more affordable housing, step up supervision of the property market, curb speculation and increase its supply of commercial housing.China planned to build 10 million government-subsidized affordable housing units next year, almost doubling this year's target of 5.8 million units.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese and U.S. military officials will exchange visits in 2011, a Chinese Defense Ministry official said here Friday.The two sides have agreed that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit China from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2011, and Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), will visit the United States at a mutually convenient date in 2011, Guan Youfei, deputy director of the ministry's Foreign Affairs Office, told a press conference.The news briefing was held after defense consultations between China and the United States on Friday, which was co-chaired by Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the PLA, and U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy.Guan Youfei, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Chinese Defense Ministry, gestures during a press conference in Washington Dec. 10, 2010. Senior Chinese and U.S. military officials will exchange visits in 2011, Guan said here Friday.During the talks, the two sides exchanged views on relations between the Chinese and U.S. militaries, maritime safety, national defense building and army building, as well as some international and regional issues. The atmosphere was candid and pragmatic, Guan said.Guan said the Chinese side attaches importance to Gates' upcoming China visit, and hopes it will deepen mutual understanding of the armed forces of the two sides, expand consensus and contribute to the healthy and stable development of their ties.Ma and Flournoy agreed that relations between the two armed forces are an integral part of bilateral ties, and it is important to keep it healthy and stable; and that the two countries' militaries should maintain dialogues and exchanges at various levels to enhance mutual understanding and avoid miscalculations.During the talks, Ma also noted the Sino-U.S. relationship has not only bilateral implications, but increasing global influence. China values the relationship between the two countries' armed forces, and has made sincere efforts to advance it. China is willing to enhance dialogue and exchanges with the United States to promote mutual understanding and trust.

DAMASCUS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Xu Caihou, vice-chairman of China's Central Military Commission, discussed relations between the armies of the two countries on Monday.Assad expressed his appreciation for China's support of Arab issues and stressed his keenness to pursuing friendly relations with China.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) meets with Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, in Damascus, capital of Syria, Nov. 8, 2010. Xu Caihou arrived in Damascus for an official visit on Nov. 7.For his part, Xu said that China supports the just cause of the Arab states, and backs Syria's efforts to resume sovereignty over Golan Heights and to achieve a comprehensive, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East.The senior Chinese official, who arrived in Damascus on Sunday for a three-day visit, also held talks on Monday with Syrian Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud on cooperation between the Syrian and Chinese armies.