Business -- June 21, 2006

• 758.25 million Chinese get jobs at the end of 2005
• China's forestry output value exceeds 720 billion yuan
• Chicago exchange plans new contracts on RMB
• China bans poultry imports from Sudan, Hungary
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange sets regional base in HK

• China's biggest bank may postpone its HK listing until October
• Chinese steelmakers agree 19-percent price rise on iron ore
• Chinese official calls for more subsidies to grain growers
• China sets targets of reviving equipment manufacturing sector
• First mainland futures company starts business in HK

• Hydrogen-powered buses debut in China
• Husky natural gas discovery still needs evaluation, CNOOC says
• Property climate index is flat in May
• Three major unfavorable factors in Chinese foreign trade