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China Auto Sales Jumped 20% in September to 1.94 Million

October 11th, 2013 Report released today by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed strong growth of 19.66% in September vehicle sales. Automakers in the country delivered 1,935,800 units in what dealers call the "golden month" of the year. The count includes 1,593,500 passenger cars (up 21.12% on year) and 342,300 buses and trucks (up 13.3% on year).

Sales climbed 12.7% to 15,883,100 in the first nine months of 2013, on track to top 20 million for the whole year.

In the last month, the SUV sector posted a 65.34% jump as deliveries reached 283,600. Mainly due to the strong performance of Wuling Hongguang, the MPV market tripled in size to 122,900 units. Sales of two- and three-box sedans increased 14.73% to 1,065,500. The microvan market, however, shrank 30.06% to 121,500.

Sales of the top-ten passenger car makers in September are:

1. Shanghai Volkswagen: 141,600

2. Shanghai GM: 134,700

3. FAW Volkswagen: 134,100

4. SAIC-GM-Wuling: 124,600

5. Dongfeng Nissan: 92,700

6. Beijing Hyundai: 91,000

7. Changan Ford: 72,600

8. Changan: 68,700

9. Great Wall: 55,800

10. FAW Toyota: 49,000


In the first nine months, the top-ten passenger car makers and their sales are:

1. Shanghai Volkswagen: 1,163,600

2. Shanghai GM: 1,138,400

3. FAW Volkswagen: 1,130,400

4. SAIC-GM-Wuling: 1,035,300

5. Beijing Hyundai: 760,900

6. Dongfeng Nissan: 623,600

7. Changan: 615,200

8. Changan Ford: 468,400

9. Great Wall: 457,400

10. Dongfeng Yueda Kia: 400,400


Great Wall Motor vehicles sales volume for the first nine month of 2013 totalled already around 555.000 units.

Volvo's China sales up 48.6% in Sep

Oct 9 (China Knowledge) - Sweden based automaker Volvo Car Corp, owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, has said that its vehicle sales jumped 48.6% year on year to 5,719 units in Sep this year.

The huge growth last month was mainly boosted by good sales of XC60 models. In Sep, the automaker saw its sales of XC60 models hit a record high of 2,482 units.

In the first nine months of this year, the company's auto sales in China surged 41.3% year on year to 43,380 units.

The company said that its global sales were 310,717 units in the first nine months, reflecting a decline of 0.63% year on year.

Volvo's two new plants in China comprising one in Chengdu of Sichuan province and one in Daqing of Heilongjiang province will put into operation in the fourth quarter of this year.

Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy

One in every three cars on American roads are built with Wanxiang auto parts. Wanxiang has created about 5,000 jobs in the U.S.A., manufacturing car components for GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc.

 

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China’s exports unexpectedly fell in September, signaling constraints from global demand and highlighting distortions from fake invoices that have yet to be eliminated from trade data.
Overseas shipments dropped 0.3 percent from a year earlier, the General Administration of Customs said in Beijing today, trailing all 46 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey that had a median projection for a 5.5 percent gain. The trade slowdown resulted from a high basis of comparison with last year, the agency said in a statement.
Today’s report may add to Premier Li Keqiang’s challenges in defending the government’s 7.5 percent expansion goal for this year. The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth outlook this week as capital outflows further weaken emerging markets and warned that a U.S. government default could “seriously damage” the world economy.
“It’s all quite murky,” said Shen Jianguang, Hong Kong-based chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd., citing the impact of inflated export data that started late last year, fewer working days due to the timing of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and currency volatility in Southeast Asia.
“There has been an export recovery since July to the U.S. and Europe but it’s been pretty weak,” Shen said. “The driving force for China’s recovery at this stage is still housing and infrastructure investment.”
Yuan Gains
Exports to the U.S. rose 4.2 percent in September from a year earlier, slowing from 6.1 percent in August, while sales to South Korea, Taiwan and the European Union dropped, customs data show. Growth in shipments to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations slid to 9.8 percent from 30.8 percent the previous month.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) of stocks advanced 2.5 percent this week, the biggest weekly gain in a month, and the yuan rose 0.02 percent against the U.S. dollar in Shanghai.
Estimates for September export growth ranged from 1 percent to 8.2 percent, after August’s 7.2 percent increase and a 9.8 percent gain a year earlier. On a seasonally adjusted basis, exports rose 5.3 percent from a year earlier and 8.3 percent from August, the agency said.
Comparing September’s exports with a year earlier may understate the true picture because of distortions from inflated data in 2012, analysts at Credit Agricole CIB and Citigroup Inc. said before the report. Regulators in May cracked down on over-invoicing of exports used to disguise capital inflows.
‘Artificially Depressed’
“Sometimes a single month’s data can’t tell the true story, and there are other factors as well,” Zheng Yuesheng, a customs spokesman, told reporters today when asked about September’s export drop. “I see this as a seasonal thing.”
Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist and strategist at Credit Agricole in Hong Kong, said before the report that the “trade numbers in the next couple of months, especially on the export side, will not be a good reflection of demand for Chinese products abroad or overall economic activity, because they will be artificially depressed from what happened a year earlier.”
Kowalczyk had the lowest estimate for September exports in the Bloomberg survey, projecting a 1 percent increase.
Imports (CNFRIMPY) rose 7.4 percent last month from a year earlier, customs data showed, topping the median 7 percent forecast in a Bloomberg survey. The $15.2 billion trade surplus compared with a median projection of $26.25 billion and $28.5 billion in August.
Healthy Picture
While imports used for processing and re-export “are still not doing very well, those that feed into China’s own economy continue to grow quite robustly, reflecting a still pretty healthy picture in terms of demand,” said Louis Kuijs, chief China economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Plc in Hong Kong.
China’s daily oil imports climbed to a record last month. Purchases have risen “as a result of expansion in the economy and its growing demand for resources,” Zheng said.
In addition to the month’s fewer working days, the strong yuan has also “eroded China’s export competitiveness,” Liu Li-Gang, chief Greater China economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Hong Kong, said in a note today.
The yuan rose about 2.7 percent against the U.S. dollar in the 12 months through September, while Asian currencies including the yen, Singapore and Taiwan dollars and Indonesia’s rupiah fell.
Port Throughput
There are still “downside risks to China’s economy,” Liu and economist Hao Zhou wrote. While there was speculation September’s trade slowdown resulted from last year’s over-invoicing, “our preliminary comparison showed that the port throughput indeed slowed in major wharfs last month,” they said.
The IMF said Oct. 8 that growth worldwide will be 2.9 percent this year and 3.6 percent next year, compared with July projections of 3.1 percent for 2013 and 3.8 percent for 2014.
While Zheng warned at today’s briefing of continued “downward pressure” on trade, he said a customs administration survey of about 2,000 exporters showed overseas shipments “will maintain stable development in the coming two or three months,” based on comments on orders and costs.
Premier Li said this week that gross domestic product grew more than 7.5 percent in the first nine months of 2013, putting China on track to achieve its full-year target of the same pace.
The statistics bureau will publish third-quarter GDP figures Oct. 18. The economy probably expanded 7.8 percent from a year earlier, according to a Bloomberg News survey, up from the second quarter’s 7.5 percent pace.
“The government still wants to maintain growth momentum and based on current data it can reach its goal, but with a very small safety margin,” said Oliver Rui, a professor of finance and accounting at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

China Exports Unexpectedly Drop - Bloomberg

 

[elis]

Everything goes down because the USA are sick. They are under a heavy debt due to their numerous wars, the toxic credit crisis of 2008, and the fact they they caution the wars of Israel against Syria, Iran, Libya that makes a lot of troubles and disturb the economy of the whole world

All the efforts of the USA are to make war everywhere: cyberwars, supporting terrorism

Instead of taking thousands of men and send them arm Al Qaeda in Syria or making war in Afghanistan, USA could send them in universities

 

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This is very bad for the global economy...

 

[xuxu1457]

Reason: if check the trade in sep of 2012, the data of 2012 is too big, it's hard to over in 2013, western customer reduced cost on Christmas Season！but import still up 7.4%, higher than Aug, Domestic demand remains strong
News about tade data in sep 2012:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-10/13/content_15815033.htm
Updated: 2012-10-13 10:36*
BEIJING -- China's exports and imports picked up in September due to recovering demand boosted by supportive policies at home and abroad, but a strong rebound in foreign trade is being seen as unlikely in the near future.

Exports rose 9.9 percent year-on-year to $186.35 billion in September, according to figures released by the General Administration of Customs on Saturday.

September's export volume hit a record monthly high and the growth was higher than the 2.7-percent year-on-year increase posted in August, the GAC said.

The easing of policies by foreign governments and orders for the Christmas shopping season have driven up exports to developed economies, said Chen Hufei, a financial researcher at the Bank of Communications.

Li Jian, a foreign trade expert at the Ministry of Commerce's research institute, said China's own efforts to help trade firms reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency also contributed to the recovery.

Some exporters may have hurried to deliver their orders before the eight-day national holiday beginning September 30 and caused the higher growth in exports in September, Li said.

Imports ended three months of consecutive drops in September, up 2.4 percent from a year earlier to $158.68 billion, according to GAC data.

Chen said import demand has built up on China's pro-growth policies and will continue to increase in the fourth quarter.

Chinese authorities have beefed up incentives to expand imports in order to balance the country's trade.

In its latest move, the government said last week that it would allocate 2.5 billion yuan ($394.9 million) from the central budget to offer loan interest discounts to importers of certain types of products this year.

Although imports remained weak in September, there are fewer chances for further decreases in future, as the economic outlook will improve, Li said.

He predicted that the trade surplus will expand somewhat, but will not take up a larger share of China's total trade or economic output.

In September, China's trade surplus rose slightly to $27.67 billion from $26.66 billion in August, the GAC said.

The global downturn and a sagging property sector softened China's growth to 7.6 percent in the second quarter, the lowest growth rate in more than three years.

To bolster the economy, the Chinese government has reduced interest rates twice this year, cut taxes for small businesses, encouraged private businesses to invest in sectors previously closed to them and fast-tracked construction projects.

Wang Jun, an expert with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, forecast "relatively severe difficulties" in China's foreign trade for the next one to two years.

In the longer term, China is not likely to maintain the annual export growth of 20 to 30 percent seen in previous years because global demand simply cannot support it, Wang said.

Instead of relying entirely on external markets, China should strengthen its export industry by offering more tax rebates, cutting logistics costs and raising the efficiency of labor, he urged.

China's total foreign trade went up 6.3 percent year-on-year to $345.03 billion in September and expanded 6.2 percent year-on-year to $2.84 trillion in the first nine months, according to GAC data.

In the January-September period, exports grew 7.4 percent from a year earlier to $1.5 trillion, while imports gained 4.8 percent to $1.35 trillion, bringing the trade surplus to $148.31 billion.

During that period, trade with the European Union, China's largest trade partner, fell 2.7 percent year-on-year to $410.99 billion, a wider loss than the 1.9-percent decline seen in the first eight months, the figures showed.

Trade with the United States, the country's second-largest trade partner, increased 9.1 percent to $355.42 billion.

Meanwhile, China's trade with Japan dipped 1.8 percent to $248.76 billion, faster than the 1.4-percent decline recorded in the first eight months.


Month Trade(100million $) increase(%)
2012.01 2726.8 -7.8
2012.02 2608.0 29.6
2012.03 3259.8 7.1
2012.04 3077.3 2.6
2012.05 3439.1 14.2
2012.06 3280.6 8.8
2012.07 3285.1 2.6
2012.08 3293.5 0.2
2012.09 3448.4 6.2
2012.10 3189.7 7.2
2012.11 3391.0 1.5
2012.12 3668.4 10.2

 

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Vivo, Huawei complete Amazon-crossing WDM deployment
Friday 11 October 2013 | 10:33 CET | News

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Brazilian mobile operator Vivo and Huawei have competed the joint deployment of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) lines crossing the Amazon River and the Amazon rainforest. The WDM lines connect two Brazilian state capitals: Amazonas' capital Manaus and Para's capital Belem. It is capable of supporting transmission of voice as well as broadband data services.

As one of the 2014 FIFA World Cup host cities, Manaus will is expected to see a huge number of football fans visiting the city from around the world in 2014 and experience a surge in demand for mobile broadband services. To support this traffic in the future, Vivo has built WDM lines that cross the Amazon river and Amazon rainforest which would connect Manaus to the country's high-speed optical backbone networks. This project aims to boost the city's network capacity and benefit the 3.7 million people living in Amazonas.

The WDM lines are 2100 kilometers connecting over 20 cities in the Amazon rainforest including five super-long spans (200 km to 261 km). Huawei's next-generation WDM/OTN platform supports WDM transmission over a single span longer than 300 kilometers. The current networks support 40G wavelengths and can evolve to 100G super-large capacity networks in the future.

 

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秦 Qin kicks arses!

Credit: wakpaper.com

Credit: autonews.autoua.net or stated on photos

 

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中国船厂打破新加坡钻井船制造业垄断 订单量首次领跑全球
Chinese shipyards to break the monopoly of Singapore rig manufacturing orders for the first time to lead the global

2013-10-9

不论是在波涛汹涌的北海水域、拉丁美洲大陆附近的幽深海沟、还是常受飓风袭击的墨西哥湾，一场向全球石油和天然气钻探商提供海上作业所需钻井平台的竞赛现已拉开序幕。

多年以来，来自亚洲城市国家新加坡的两家公司——吉宝集团(Keppel)以及胜科海事(Sembcorp Marine)——主导着这类大型设备的供应市场。
在用于较浅水域钻探的所谓自升式钻井船领域，这两家公司在全球合计占有70%的市场份额。吉宝与墨西哥国家石油公司(PEMEX)上周五签署了一项协议，将在墨西哥修建并经营一家生产自升式钻井船的船坞。

吉宝与胜科海事还是半潜式钻井平台的主要供应商，这种平台的用途是深海钻探。

但新加坡如今首次开始开始感受到竞争的热度，竞争来自中国以及韩国的新兴对手。中韩两国正在努力从墨西哥湾、巴西近海以及非洲西部的钻探热潮中分一杯羹，并已开始自主生产自升式钻井船以及其他设备。



Whether in the choppy waters of the North Sea , Latin America 's deep trench near the mainland , or often by the Gulf of Mexico hurricanes , a global oil and gas drilling to provide the necessary offshore drilling platform competitions now kicked off.

Over the years, the city -state of Singapore from Asia 's two companies - Keppel Group (Keppel) and SembCorp Marine (Sembcorp Marine) - dominate the market for the supply of such large equipment .

In shallow waters for so-called jack-up drilling rig field , the two companies occupy 70% of the total global market share. Keppel and PEMEX (PEMEX) on Friday signed an agreement to build and operate in Mexico jackup drilling a production boat dock .

Keppel and Sembcorp or semi-submersible drilling platform, the main supplier of this platform is the use of deep-sea drilling.

Singapore is now beginning to feel the competition first started the heat of competition from China and South Korea 's emerging opponent. China and South Korea are working from the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Brazil and West Africa drilling boom slice , and has started independent production jack-up drilling rigs and other equipment .

海洋石油981
Ocean Oil 981

Credit: Xinhuanet.com and hexun,com

Credit: ifeng.com

Credit: guancha.cn
Oil drilling rigs with self-elevating platforms

Further reading here:

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[sweetgrape]

秦 Qin kicks arses!

Some more:

This car will come to market soon, maybe last half this month, deducting state and city subsities, maybe 150000 yuan is encough for it, and the oil consumption per 100 kilometer is about 2 liters.

 

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@sweetgrape

Thanks Buddy! I am trying to find a gold transformer to match that if I can.

The fuel efficiency for that hybrid is great!

Not perfect but anyway here they are:

credit: geekscribe

credit：iffer

Bumblebee
credit: wikimedia

credit: sweetgrape and car0/autoimg.cn

 

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China must tackle its bubble trouble | South China Morning Post

China is experiencing another wave of inflation. From bottled water to bread, prices are surging. The statistics may not fully reflect the situation. Over the past decade, China has transformed from the lowest-priced economy in the world to one of the highest-priced. Nothing symbolises the transformation better than busy customs officials trying to stop travelling Chinese from hauling food items and toilet paper back across the border.

From 1998 to 2003, China experienced deflation following a bout of inflation, driven by overcapacity and a labour surplus. China shifted into inflation in 2004 due to rising commodity prices and the end of the labour surplus.

But the inflation today is different.

Inflation, not growth, is the destabilising force in China. It could trigger a wage-price spiral

First, overcapacity is still a problem; in fact, it became worse after the 2008 crisis as China's attempt to stimulate the economy vastly increased capacity while a weak global economy kept demand weak. This is why the producer price index has experienced a long period of decline.

Furthermore, commodity prices are now declining. But despite these reasons, prices are rising because local governments have developed an elaborate machinery to collect money between production and consumption.

China's inflation is largely a tax on the household sector to fund the government sector. The main purpose is to extend the investment cycle.

In the East Asian export and investment development model, the two go together. When exports slow due to weak demand or competition, investment must slow, too. Otherwise, there would be a big balance of payments deficit, leading to a financial crisis.

This was what South Korea faced in 1997. China's day of reckoning should have been in 2008. The global financial crisis exposed the weakness of credit-fuelled Western demand for Chinese goods. But, instead of slowing investment to match the slower exports, China accelerated investment with its stimulus to maintain the GDP growth rate.

Investment rose to about 50 per cent of gross domestic product, 10 percentage points higher than in 2008. Rising local government debt and inflation funded the investment surge. As the local government debt becomes difficult to increase, the funding burden is increasingly shifting to inflation. The latest bout of inflation should be understood in this context.

Japan and Korea saw their investment rise above 40 per cent of GDP briefly. China's investment has been above that level for over a decade. The simple maths is that a higher ratio for investment means a lower ratio for consumption. But the former leads to more capacity. With consumption held down, exports could absorb the capacity. But as the global economy remains sluggish, there is no demand other than investment itself to absorb the capacity. China's growth model has become a capacity bubble. To absorb excess capacity, China creates investment demand that leads to even more overcapacity.

Bread costs more in China than in most places. But China's five-star hotels offer some of the lowest rates in the world. The contrast reflects China's growth model: taxing the household sector through inflation to fund investment. Necessities like foodstuffs and toilet paper can be taxed more than five-star hotels.

China's inflation dynamic reflects the government's monopoly power in maximising prices. The money supply defines the limits of inflation. For example, China's money supply is rising at about 15 per cent this year. The real growth rate is, at best, half as much. The difference is probably absorbed by inflation.

Inflation, not growth, is the destabilising force in China. The current high rate of inflation could trigger a vicious wage-price spiral, as China is facing a labour shortage. The spiral would make the exchange rate policy unsustainable.

China's financial stability depends on expectations of a stable or rising renminbi against the dollar. If inflation leads to expectations of a devaluation, a financial collapse is likely. Hence, China has to slow growth of the money supply.

Japan experienced a price bubble two decades ago; South Korea and Southeast Asia, 15 years ago. The bubble deflated in Japan after a long period of deflation, while a "maxi-devaluation", a large reduction in the currency's value over a period of time, followed in Southeast Asia and Korea. China's adjustment would be similar to Japan's. The more inflation China has now, the more deflation later.

Local governments have been trying everything to raise financing to sustain existing investment projects. But, banks are pushing risky loans off their books to the shadow banking system. Local government funding costs are rising as a result. With rising interest rates, China's investment bubble will burst, probably in a matter of months, not years.

If China sticks to a stable exchange rate policy, which I expect, prices will go down. China suffered high prices in the early 1990s. By sticking to a stable exchange rate policy, it took five years of deflation to make China cheap again. In this current period of inflation, prices are more out of line with international levels. The coming bout of deflation needs to be severe enough to correct the misalignment.

Unlike Japan, China can expect another growth cycle. The current level of household consumption is one-tenth of the level in advanced economies. It is logical, therefore, for China to shift income away from government to households to support consumption, which would gradually absorb the overcapacity.

The collapse of the land bubble is a necessary part of the adjustment. It will decrease government revenue and increase the purchasing power of household income.

When the property bubble crashes in China, it will be a new beginning, not the end, of China's growth. The US experienced the 1930s before its rise to become the world's dominant economy. The same thing will probably happen to China.

 

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Unwanted and unnecessary investment. But since Taiwan is a part of China and Taiwaneses are our brothers, the Central Government(read FGW) will OK it.

Tue, Oct 15, 2013

By Helen Ku / Staff reporter

Eight local petrochemical companies recently submitted applications to the Ministry of Economic Affairs to invest up to US$7 billion in a joint venture in China after the government this month removed some bans on China-bound investment, Petrochemical Industry Association of Taiwan (石化工業同業公&#26371 chairman Jack Shieh (謝俊&#38596 said yesterday.

On Oct. 1, the ministry relaxed restrictions on Taiwanese petrochemical firms’ investment in China, but required them to hold at least 50 percent of shares in any Chinese joint venture.

Shieh said the eight companies plan to invest in a joint venture with China-based Sinopec Corp (中石&#21270 in Fujian Province’s Gulei Peninsula, but the ministry’s Investment Commission yesterday said it had not yet received the applications.

The eight firms are Ho Tung Chemical Corp (和&#26704, Hsin Tay Petroleum Co Ltd (盛&#21488, USI Corp (台&#32858, Asia Polymer Corp (亞&#32858, TSRC Corp (台&#27233, LCY Chemical Corp (榮&#21270, Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp (國&#21932 and Lien Hwa Industrial Corp (聯華氣&#39636.

“The plan to build oil refineries and naphtha crackers in Fujian is still a rough draft and has not yet received approval from the government,” Shieh told reporters.

Formosa Plastics Group (FPG, 台塑集&#22296 is still conducting an analysis on whether to increase petrochemical investment in China, FPG vice chairwoman Susan Wang (王瑞&#33775 reportedly told reporters yesterday at a corporate event, as traditional naphtha crackers face challenges from the emerging shale gas industry.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) said in a report released yesterday that Taiwan’s petrochemical sector would see its output grow by between 3.3 and 3.9 percent this year from last year.

However, local manufacturers’ output for next year will grow by only between 1.5 and 2 percent due to intensifying competition in the global market arising from higher operating costs, the report said, saying that Chinese petrochemical firms will use locally produced raw materials to cut costs, while US firms will rely more on cheaper shale oil and gas to mass-produce ethylene and propylene products.

“The government should assist local petrochemical companies to enhance their competitiveness in the global market by reducing tariffs in the short tern,” ITRI analyst Tseng Fan-ming (曾繁&#37528 said.

“Taiwanese petrochemical firms also need to explore new markets, preferably Southeast Asian countries, to reduce reliance on China’s market, and produce more high value-added chemical products to increase their competitiveness,” he added.

 

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Macau’s officially estimated unemployment rate remained at 1.9 percent in the June-August survey period compared with the May-July period, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement.

The number of unemployed stood at 7,200 in the June-August period, up by 200 from the May-July survey. With fresh graduates joining the labour market, labour force entrants looking for their first job rose 3.4 percentage points to account for 13.6 percent of the total unemployed, according to the statement.

Macau’s total labour force amounted to 369,000 in June-August, when the labour force participation rate stood at 72.8 percent.

Total employment reached 362,000, up by 2,300 from the previous survey period. The construction sector’s employment showed continued growth, rising 3.5 percent over the preceding period to 35,000 workers.

Compared with June-August last year, the unemployment rate dropped 0.1 percentage points.

According to the Human Resources Office (GRH) quoted today by the Macau Post Daily, the number of imported labour reached 127,233 at the end of August – including 79,353 mainlanders, 17,785 Filipinos and 11,357 Vietnamese.

Imported workers (commonly known as blue-card holders) accounted for about 34.5 percent of the city’s total workforce in August.(macaunews)

Macau News - Jobless rate stays at 1.9 pct

 

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中国铁建启动2013年麦加朝觐轻轨运营
China Railway Construction started in 2013 pilgrimage to Mecca light rail operators

2013年10月14日 16:45:32 | 责任编辑: 潘若佳 | 来源：新华网
October 14, 2013 16:45:32 | Editor: Pan Ruojia | Source: Xinhua

2013 年 10月14日，在沙特阿拉伯麦加的米纳站，穆斯林乘坐轻轨前往朝觐地区。由中国铁建股份有限公司（中国铁建）承建的沙特麦加轻轨铁路13日迎来在沙特阿拉伯伊斯兰教圣城麦加朝觐的大批朝觐者，这是中国铁建连续第4年为各国朝觐者提供交通运输服务。今年，麦加轻轨铁路预计在5天时间里完成约250万人次的运营任务。新华社发（董立巍摄）

October 14, 2013 in Saudi Arabia Mecca Mina station, take the light rail to the Hajj Muslim regions. By the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (China Railway Construction) construction of the Mecca Light Railway on the 13th ushered in the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, a large number of Hajj pilgrims, which is China Railway Construction fourth consecutive year for national Hajj to provide transport services. This year, the Mecca light rail is expected to complete in five days time, approximately 2.5 million people in the operational tasks. Xinhua News Agency issued (Dong Liwei photo)

 

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@sweetgrape

Not perfect but anyway here they are:

Bumblebee

Dam I hate the Michael bay Transformers, the movies trashed my childhood and ruined an awesome franchise.
The 1986 movie is 10x better with the most awesome soundtrack.
Also the transformer games 'War for Cybertron' and 'Fall of Cybertron' follow the true transformers spirit, not like the movies raped by Michael Bay and Hollywood.
FCUK Michael Bay.

This is how real transformers look

[/url] Transformers G1 1985 Shockwave (Laserwave) Gallery[/IMG]

[/url] Transformers G1 1984 Skywarp Gallery[/IMG]

I had these as a kid and played them to pieces. Literally.
The Michael Gay toys make me feel like crying.