Business

　　The State Council, China's cabinet, issued a circular to kick off examinations of big investment projects under construction or to be built.

　　Projects, including those of steel, aluminum and cement production as well as office building, golf course, urban railway, exhibition center and shopping mall construction, will be investigated in a nationwide check-up and many may be halted this year, Xinhua news agency reported. No new projects of steel, aluminum and cement would be approved this year, the circular said.