China's crude oil imports in February climbed 21.6% year on year to 10.27 million b/d, preliminary data from the General Administration of Customs showed Friday. SEE MORE China's plan to cut the rate of value-added tax on nonferrous metals is expected to widen the price gap between near- and long-term futures contracts traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, Chinese industry sources said this week. SEE MORE In 2009, the chief executive of Emerson Electric Co. bluntly told investors at a Chicago conference what many of his counterparts at other manufacturing firms would only say privately. SEE MORE China over-reported its economic growth between 2008 and 2016 by an average of 1.7 percentage points, according to a recent study by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Chicago. SEE MORE In a major step forward for an area of research that earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, an international team has found that substances with exotic electronic behaviors called topological materials are in fact quite common, and include everyday elements such as arsenic and gold. SEE MORE