German carmaker Volkswagen has received approval from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to add two more factories in the country, two people close to the matter said on Sunday.

石化进口产品成为中国调查可能存在融资欺诈行为的最新目标。这突显出为了规避信贷限制，原材料普遍用于抵押贷款所产生的风险。

China will relax customs regulations for companies registered in its Shanghai pilot Free-Trade Zone (FTZ), allowing a firm to declare goods at customs anywhere in China for the first time, state media quoted a Shanghai official as saying on Monday.

Shaken by a fraud investigation into metal financing in the world's seventh-busiest port, banks and trading houses have been made painfully aware of the risks they face storing commodities in China's sprawling warehouse sector.

青岛港金属融资欺诈调查触动了银行和交易所的神经，他们痛苦地意识到在中国仓储业储存大宗商品面临的风险。

Audit firm EY said on Friday it would appeal a Hong Kong court's ruling that Chinese law does not protect the working papers of mainland companies and suggested the regulator in Beijing deal directly with its counterpart in the former British colony.

中国国家审计署周五公布对中石油等11户国有企业2012年度财务收支审计结果公告，普遍在会计核算和财务管理不够规范，违法违规问题仍然存在，个别企业存在的问题还比较突出。

中国证监会发言人张晓军周五称，证监会将对中信证券 研究员张明芳等涉嫌内幕信息立案调查。

China's National Audit Office has found irregularities at 11 state-owned conglomerates ranging from misrepresentation of assets to illegal property development, highlighting the challenges the government faces in overhauling the public sector.

China has quietly begun a probe into the operations of foreign non-government bodies in the country, to prepare for tighter regulations in future, as part of a security drive ordered by a new national panel headed by President Xi Jinping.