China's mergers and acquisitions market saw a modest pick-up in domestic deal activity in the second quarter after a steep decline in the first three months of 2009, a report said.

The global economic crisis has had little impact on Beijing's central business district (CBD), but limited space in the financial hub is hampering development.

China saw a slight increase in jobs in the second quarter while its urban unemployment rate stayed at 4.3 percent, bucking a global shrinking job market.

After a four-day trading suspension, Yunnan Copper Co Ltd, the nation's third largest copper producer, said yesterday it would privately place 300 million new shares to raise about 6 billion yuan.

Beijing will build or renovate more than 40 garbage disposal plants by 2015 to meet the growing amount of waste generated in the capital, authorities said yesterday.