Urbanization is definitely the buzzword of the year. Premier Li Keqiang has stressed on several occasions that urbanization will create China's biggest domestic demand.
Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time.
Beijing's land sales revenue in the first half of January hit $3.56 billion and analysts expect it to surpass 30 billion yuan for the month.
China's transport system will be put to the test during "Chunyun", the 40-day travel period around the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, which falls on January 31.
The Chinese economy, buoyed by eased overcapacity and enhanced reforms, will grow 8.6% in 2014, according to Deutsche Bank. The forecast is higher than the market consensus.
Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, thanks mainly to sustained growth in China.
Central to ginger production in China is Laiwu, a city of about 1.3 million people in East China's Shandong province. It also does a big line in garlic.
The China Railway Corporation said on Sunday that an average of 7.43 million train tickets have been sold a day since fares went on sale for the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, with this figure up 20.3 percent year on year.
Ningxia has announced plans to build a gigantic cloud computing base covering 12.8 square kilometers that can eventually house 1 million servers.
Revenue derived from local government land sales could hit a record of above 3 trillion yuan ($491 billion) in 2013.
Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson Services Inc plans to invest $3 billion in a new production base in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.
Commercial manufacture of cellulosic bioethanol from agricultural residue is expected to be given further impetus.
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