I’ve written all of this because friends urged me to offer some reflections on the year gone by and jot down a few thoughts for the upcoming year. But I didn’t want to waste my time looking up data points. Anyway, I don’t see that there was all...
This week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced it would cease collecting data on youth unemployment. The news came...
China has recorded its highest level of unemployment among urban youth since the country began tracking it in 2018. In March, 16 percent of Chinese city-dwellers aged 16 to 24 were unemployed, compared to 13.6 percent a year earlier. In May, that...
When I lived with Tom in the city of Chengdu in 2015 and into 2016, he was a 23-year-old probationary member of the Chinese Communist Party, on his way to joining the organization’s nearly 90 million full members. He wanted to embark on a career...
Some look like high-tech firms, promising young college graduates a fast track to riches. Others pose as charitable groups on a membership drive, or companies building a sales network for a new product. Tens of millions across China are signing...
Before the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn pledged to spend $10 billion and create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin, the company made a similar promise of 100,000 jobs in Brazil. Six years later, Brazil is still waiting for most of those jobs to...
This month, five photo galleries explore different aspects of public and private space in contemporary China. Wu Yue meets a couple who swam to Hong Kong from Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution and still find solace in the waters of Hong...
Last week, United States President Donald Trump suggested that he is considering leveraging tariffs on Chinese steel...
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Paris on Thursday morning in a diplomatic move to soften divergence with France over climate change and trade liberalization by seeking common ground on security and fight against terrorism.
China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Shanghai.
Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program—the “dibao,” or “Minimum Livelihood Guarantee”—since its inception in 1993. The dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world’s largest welfare program in terms of population coverage, evidence on the dibao’s performance has been lacking.
Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder, will host a conference in Detroit next month to help small businesses learn about the company.
Jack Ma announced on Tuesday that Alibaba will host a two-day conference in Detroit in June to teach U.S. businesses how to sell to the company’s 443 million customers in China on the world’s biggest e-commerce site.
The president last year compared China’s economic behavior to “rape.” Now he says he and Xi are “in the process of getting along very well.”
Last week, President Donald Trump declared that he would bring back coal jobs, directing the EPA to roll back the Clean Power Plan and other regulations on coal producers.
When President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, he will remind his guest that China runs the largest trade surplus with the United States.
Peter Navarro doesn't speak Chinese, and has scant in-country experience. Should that matter?
As President Trump talked up his plans to help American coal and steel workers in his address to Congress, a top official thousands of miles away in Beijing was detailing China’s plans to cut half a million jobs in heavy industries this year.
Edward Tse says Chinese investment and job creation are just what the US economy needs to sharpen its edge, not isolationism and trade wars
As Trump presses companies on U.S. manufacturing, the city that became the globalization poster child has learned to adapt to economic shifts
Nearly 70% of Chinese students who returned after studying abroad said they were "unsatisfied" with job opportunities
Wang Jianlin says 20,000 American jobs and $10 billion in investment are at stake
The job — with more than 7,700 applicants vying for a single position as of Sunday — is head of the reception office at the China Democratic League
One of the most critical tasks is developing a workforce for the 21st century.
Factory jobs are on the rise here, and many of these new jobs are coming back to North America from China.
“Walmart is one of the major forces pulling imports into the United States.”
“I had this great American dream that got broken.”
China's start-up culture means the best jobs of the future may soon be, not here, but in the East.
As factories run out of money and construction projects idle, China sees a rise in unrest.
Chinese intruders' attack gave them “administrator privileges” into Office of Personnel Management computer networks.
China may face a staggering challenge as it attempts to adapt to the realities of a new age.
Americans bought almost $1 out of every $5 worth of goods that China exported in May, the highest share since August 2010.
The world's No. 2 economy created 3.24M new jobs in Q1, down from 3.44 million during the same period last year.
The move not a huge surprise as Yahoo has been retreating since 2013 when it ended email servies in China.
Waning interest worries those who view having Americans who speak Chinese as a matter of national interest.
It just got slightly less difficult to be a clean Chinese official. State media reported on January 20 that Chinese civil servants had received their first pay raise...
The aviation boom comes asChina allows private planes to fly below 1,000 meters from next year without military approval, seeking to boost its transport infrastructure.
Hebei province in central China was the worst offender, with 55,793 officials found to be getting paid even though they never worked, followed by Sichuan and Henan.
For recent college graduates strugglgin to find a job, positions inside the government, the state enterprises and state banks, which offer steady incomes and generous benefits, have increased dramatically in their appeal.
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"The romanticised relationship surrounding China's investment in Africa has passed," said Alex Vines. "The main pressure on governments in Africa is to provide jobs. Having the Chinese take those jobs doesn't help."
It is true China’s boom has brought many benefits to Africa. But in many countries, China’s demand for ore, timber and oil is forcing African states to specialise at the bottom of the value chain in areas with low productivity gains....
