Business -- July 28, 2005

• China still Vietnam's largest tourist market in first 7 months
• Chinese auto products see first foreign trade surplus
• China endeavors to reduce dependency on overseas resources
• China to amend personal income tax law
• Chinese shares continue to go up

• China starts to regulate mineral resource prospecting
• China's performing arts market opens wider to foreign investment
• Central government calls for redressing financial malfeasance
• China's power-generator sector warned of oversupply in 2008
• Myanmar, China striving for US$1.5 bln bilateral trade volume

• Profit of major state enterprises grows 29.1 percent
• Stalled in the pending issue of Sino-US textile trade
• Tianjin Port aims to be north China's international shipping center
• Wal-Mart to speed up expansion in east China