The international chemical company Oxea and the Chinese Chengxing Group have signed an agreement with the Changzhou Municipal Government for a land grant in the Changzhou Yangtze River Chemical Industrial Park for the construction of a plant for the production of amines and other chemicals.

American corn whiskey — commonly known as moonshine — will be available legally on the Chinese market by the end of 2008.

The Mianzhu City factory of Jiannanchun Group, a key alcohol manufacturer in China, has been shut down because of the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province.

Anheuser-Busch will build a new brewery in the Fengnan District of Tangshan to replace a smaller downtown brewery.