In the first nine months of this year, new orders received by China's shipbuilding yards were 16.9 million deadweight tons, a massive 70 percent drop from 57.2 million tons in the same period last year.

The craze in online games among Chinese netizens is fueling an increasingly lucrative market for computer hackers, security firms have said.

Chinese lenders are regularly keeping tabs on their capital requirements, and the stock market should not be overly concerned about banks' capital adequacy ratios, a senior official said.

According to official figures, China has around 44 million people living in poverty, and Gansu is home to a tenth of this population.

Nearly nine out of 10 Chinese workers are under growing pressure at work as China leads the world toward economic recovery, a global survey showed.