China and U.S. seek to ease tensions; Hu visit on agenda (Reuters)

Picture taken in 2005 shows caged battery hens in a chicken farm outside Minsk. The Dalai Lama has condemned battery hen farming and is urging consumers to switch to buying eggs from chickens kept outside of cages, a statement said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)Reuters - China has told the United States it wants to narrow differences that have developed over a range of issues, state media said on Tuesday, aiming to lay the ground for a visit by President Hu Jintao early next year.
China to have 200 million vehicles by 2020 (AFP)

Traffic backs up in the central business district in Beijing in August 2010. The number of vehicles on China's roads will more than double to at least 200 million by 2020, a top official was quoted Monday as saying, further straining the nation's environment and energy supply.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The number of vehicles on China's roads will more than double to at least 200 million by 2020, a top official was quoted Monday as saying, further straining the nation's environment and energy supply.
Rise of new influence groups in China: think tank (AFP)

Chinese PLA soldiers are seen outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in August, 2010. Forces outside China's traditional power bases are increasingly shaping the country's foreign policy, pushing for more international participation, the SIPRI think tank said in a report Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Forces outside China's traditional power bases are increasingly shaping the country's foreign policy, pushing for more international participation, the SIPRI think tank said in a report Monday.
US, China hail warmer relationship (AFP)

China's Vice-Premier Wang Qishan address the press at the end of the third Japan-China High-level Economic Dialogue at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 2010. Qishan said he was looking forward to discussing China-US ties in trade, investment and finance in talks with US Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon and US National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers.(AFP/POOL/File/Adrian Bradshaw)AFP - Chinese and US officials congratulated each other Monday on a warming of ties between the two powers, after relations were strained earlier this year.
China's 'miracle' Shenzhen marks 30 years (AFP)

File photo shows a couple walking past billboards advertising luxury goods in Shenzhen. President Hu Jintao hailed the southern export hub of Shenzhen as a AFP - President Hu Jintao hailed the southern export hub of Shenzhen as a "miracle" Monday as China marked 30 years of reforms in the city that provided the blueprint for the country's economic rebirth.
China, US meet amid tensions over trade, military (AP)

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, left, and U.S. National Economic Council Director Larry Summers pause as they wait for journalists to leave before their meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, not in the photo, at the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing, China, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)AP - Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs despite calls for a tougher line on Chinese economic policies that some say are contributing to American unemployment.
Probe launched after China pilots falsified records: govt (AFP)

Chinese medical staff evacuate the injured survivors of the Henan Airlines ERJ-190 regional jet crash onto a plane at the airport in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province early on August 26. China said Monday it is investigating the qualifications of the nation's commercial pilots after revelations that more than 200 of them had falsified their resumes.(AFP/Str)AFP - China said Monday it was investigating its commercial pilots' qualifications amid revelations more than 200 of them lied on their resumes.
China Inc gets new chairman as state-owned firms' clout grows (Reuters)
Reuters - Wang Yong, a name little heard on the global business stage, has become boss of the world's biggest mobile telecom carrier, the most valuable coal producer and Asia's top oil refiner.
China needs 'carrier-killer' missile: press (AFP)

File photo of an aircraft carrier. China's Global Times newspaper has written in an editorial that China needs a AFP - China needs a "carrier-killer" missile deterrent as a counter-balance to US naval supremacy in the Pacific, the state-controlled press said Monday.
China allows insurers to invest in PE, property (Reuters)
Reuters - China will allow insurers to broaden their investment channels into private equity and real estate, a long-awaited move that could unleash as much as $100 billion worth of fresh funding into unlisted firms and the property sector.
China vows to boost imports, help world recovery (AP)

U.S. National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers, center, shakes hands with China's Communist Party's Central Organization Department Minister Li Yuanchao as U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon, left, looks on during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)AP - A Chinese official defended the country's trade record Monday as a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama visited Beijing amid renewed pressure by American lawmakers over Chinese currency controls.
China may relax capital rules for QDII funds: report (Reuters)
Reuters - China plans to relax rules to allow smaller fund houses to launch overseas investment products, the Securities Times reported on Monday, citing an unnamed source.
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