| Abstract: | TO THE POINT: The government vowed to improve farmers' living stan- dards and underlined several tasks to be fulfilled this year in this regard. A majority of domestic individual investors suffered losses of more than 70 percent on their investments in mainland stock markets last year. Steel manufacturers were also unlucky in 2008 and lost a total of $1.87 billion in November alone. Despite pressure from the gloomy economic situation, more than 200 enterprises in Shanghai promised no layoffs. Tainted milk p... |
