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By forming partnerships with foreign energy companies, Chinese oil firms are finding it easier to acquire energy assets abroad. Partnerships avert political opposition on nationalistic grounds, and safeguard global energy supplies by tying them to China's energy security.

Because of employee opposition, the Chinese province of Henan abandoned for the second time in a month the privatization of government-owned Linzhou Iron & Steel Co. The central government is encouraging the consolidation of the fragmented Chinese steel industry through mergers and privatizations. Article also discusses the increase of worker activism despite the lack of a country-wide workers' rights movement.

In a deal that gives it access to oil fields in Iraqi Kurdistan and offshore resources in West Africa, China's Sinopec Group will acquire Canada's Addax Petroleum Corp. for 8.27 billion Canadian dollars or C$52.80 a share. Addax produced 136,500 barrels a day in 2008, less than 2% of China's daily consumption.

Byline: SHAI OSTER RESOURCES Chinalco boss says company offered concessions in Rio deal BEIJING -- The president of Aluminum Corp. of China said the metals giant had been willing to [...]

Prompted by investor and political opposition, mining giant Rio Tinto PLC abandoned talks to sell an 18% stake to the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) for $19.5 billion. The deal would have given Chinalco direct access to some of Rio Tinto's mining assets in Australia. As an alternative to the stake sale, Rio Tinto will issue stock to raise $15.2 billion and raise an additional $5.8 billion by combining iron-ore assets with BHP Billiton in Western Australia.

Byline: DANA CIMILLUCA, SHAI OSTER AND AMY OR; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF MINING Rio Tinto, Chinalco deal dies Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto PLC walked away from a proposed $19.5-billion [...]

SOVEREIGN WEALTH China's resource strategy gets boost with Brazil oil deal BEIJING -- State-owned Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA has finalized a $10-billion (U.S.) loan from China in return [...]

Byline: DAVID WINNING, SHAI OSTER AND ALEX WILSON; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF BEIJING AND MELBOURNE -- China reached a long-term deal to lend $25-billion (U.S.) to two Russian energy companies [...]

Byline: SHAI OSTER BEIJING -- Ticketmaster chief executive officer Sean Moriarty said 6.8 million tickets to the Beijing Games were sold worldwide, the most ever for the Olympics. 'This was [...]

Byline: ANDREW BATSON AND SHAI OSTER BEIJING -- The unexpectedly strong growth of China's manufacturing sector could still be undermined by worsening electricity shortages, which also threaten to fuel the [...]

Byline: SHAI OSTER; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF BEIJING -- The United States has asked that China join the International Energy Agency, which was set up after the oil shocks of [...]

Byline: MEI FONG; Kersten Zhang, Gao Sen and Shai Oster contributed to this article BEIJING -- China's government, struggling to contain what could be an embarrassing pollution problem during the [...]

Byline: SHAI OSTER BEIJING -- Peabody Energy Corp., the world's biggest listed coal producer, says it is hoping to sign a deal in the next year to develop a mine [...]

Byline: SHAI OSTER BEIJING -- T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil investor from Texas, hopes to set up a chain of retail natural gas stations in China with a local [...]

China and Turkmenistan have signed a deal for China to import natural gas from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Although details of the deal were not available, the talks have involved 30 bil cubic meters of gas per year for the next three decades via a new pipeline.

Heeding the dangers of global warming, China has revised its stand on controlling greenhouse gases. China, which is a major pollutor, is recognizing the social and economic impacts of climate change.

China, with its booming economy and high energy demands, has been unable to control its numerous illegal coal-fired power plants and coal mines. There have been numerous accidents and deaths due to lax safety practices at these facilities, and even basic environmental standards are not being met.

Thirty-four multinational corporations have violated Chinese water pollution guidelines, according to China's Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs. Environmental issues, especially those regarding water pollution, are moving to the top of China's political agenda, and have caused a lot of recent social unrest in China.

Royal Dutch-Shell Group of Cos. of the Netherlands is planning further investment in China in a bid for greater market share in China. The petroleum giant is to invest another $500 million in China in 2006.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. is to increase its lessening reserves by planning foreign joint ventures or stake purchases rather than a direct acquisition. It was shut out by the United States government in its attempted purchase of Unocal Corp. last year.

The Xingzhi primary school is a smudge of packed dirt and drafty shacks on the outskirts of Beijing, brightened only by the children's colorful clothes and the propaganda on the […]

In a move that shows the growing power of foreign companies and the telecommunications market in China, the government this month backed down from laws that would have limited the […]

The Sierra Leone Embassy here has been quietly occupied for two weeks by protesting university students who say things might get ugly if their demands are not met. "If they […]

Four months ago, Premier Zhu Rongji charmed Americans with a vision of a China open to economic reforms. Donning cowboy hats and telling jokes on tour in the US, he […]

China is planning to change legislation concerning home ownership to match current practices and value shifts in Chinese society.

Several children of prominent Chinese politicians, such as China Power International Development Ltd.'s CEO Li Xiaolin, have eschewed politics and instead occupy high-ranking business positions.