Minister: China to cut 500,000 heavy industry jobs

In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 photo, a worker watches a bulldozer unload coal at a coal mine in Huaibei in central China’s Anhui province. China’s labor minister says Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Beijing will cut another 500,000 jobs this year from steel, coal and other heavy industries to reduce excess production capacity that is flooding markets and depressing global prices.

Exclusive: China’s XCMG, Brazil’s OAS in joint venture talks, source says

Chinese heavy machinery maker Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co Ltd [XCMGP.UL] is in talks with Brazilian engineering firm OAS SA [OAEP.UL] to form a joint venture for construction in Africa and Latin America, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. According to the person, who was briefed on the talks, the firm commonly known as XCMG would contribute capital, equipment and financing to the venture.

Chinese fossil – rewrites history of reproduction’

First evidence found that group of animals that includes dinosaurs and birds also gave live birth to babies rather than only laying eggs A fossil found in China has provided the first evidence that a group of animals that includes dinosaurs, birds and crocodiles also gave live birth to babies rather than only laying eggs to produce offspring. The remains of a baby were found inside the fossil of a marine reptile called a Dinocephalosaurus discovered about 100km from Kunming in Yunnan province in southwest China.

Chinese fossil – rewrites history of reproduction’

First evidence found that group of animals that includes dinosaurs and birds also gave live birth to babies rather than only laying eggs A fossil found in China has provided the first evidence that a group of animals that includes dinosaurs, birds and crocodiles also gave live birth to babies rather than only laying eggs to produce offspring. The remains of a baby were found inside the fossil of a marine reptile called a Dinocephalosaurus discovered about 100km from Kunming in Yunnan province in southwest China.