Economists React: China GDP Growth Hits 7.9% in Fourth Quarter
Chinese growth is likely to stabilize around 8% this year after a more than two-year slowdown.
Economists React: China's GDP Growth Hits 7.9% in Fourth Quarter
Chinese growth is likely to stabilize around 8% this year after a more than two-year slowdown.
Investment into China Declined in 2012
Analysts said cooling growth in China’s foreign direct investment, or F.D.I., did not suggest that investors’ confidence in the country was waning.
China Hints at Far Wider Welcome to Overseas Investors
China’s top securities regulator said foreign investment could be allowed to rise tenfold In what would be a drastic liberalization of huge, cloistered capital markets.
International Schools in China Point Students to the West
Some Chinese pay as much as 260,000 renminbi, or about $42,000, a year for a Western-style education and a possible ticket to a college overseas for their children.
Environmental Stocks Surge on China’s Smog Pollution Fears
While Beijing struggled with pollution, prices of environmental protection stocks surged as investors bought stocks that could rise if policymakers say “enough.”
Caixin Media
01.13.13
China Development Bank Cancels Loans for Ping An Deal
The Hong Kong branch of China Development Bank (CDB) has been ordered by its Beijing headquarters to cancel loans that would have been used to finance an acquisition involving the nation’s second-largest insurer, a bank source said.
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Apple CEO: China Will Be Biggest Market
Apple has said sales in China more than doubled in 2010 and 2011 though growth has slowed in the past year.
China Firm Buys Naming Rights to Landmark Hollywood Theater
Chinese TV maker TCL paid $5 million to rename Grauman's Chinese Theatre
(Editorial) Why Southern Weekly Said “No”
The road to freedom of expression as guaranteed in Article 35 of China’s Constitution will be a long one.
China Said to Crack Down on Censorship Protests
People across China have been detained or questioned for supporting protesting Southern Weekend journalists.
A Retailer Discovers China’s New ‘It‘ Girl: Grandpa
Retired Farmer Becomes Fashion Sensation; He's 5-8, Thin and Looks Great in Crimson
Private Equity in China: Which Way Out?
Three-quarters of private equity deals struck between 2001-12-worth $230 billion-have yet to pay off, a new report shows.
Inside the Southern Weekly Incident
A Hong Kong University media scholar's review of the strife that led to a strike at one of China's most influential newspapers.
Censorship Protest a Test for Reform-minded China
For two days, journalists at the Southern Weekly offices and hundreds of their supporters called for free speech.
Chemical Spill Pollutes Shanxi Politics
After a chemical spill polluted north China waterways–and delays in reporting it raised the specter of an earlier cover-up–the problem is seeping into the political system.
Southern Weekend Editorial Staff Goes on Strike (Updated)
An internal standoff has escalated into a full-blown crisis at Southern Weekly, where Guangdong's propaganda chief meddled in the publication's "New Year's Greeting."...
Media
01.07.13
“Help Me Pay This Bill”: A Short But Incisive Send-Up of Chinese Corruption
It is a social media classic, a send-up of the corruption and profligacy that so often enrage Web users in China. A very short story variously titled “I Did Not Eat For Free” and “Help Me Pay This Bill” has been making the rounds for months on...
Supporters Back Strike and Newspaper in China
Hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China to support journalists who had declared a strike to protest censorship by officials.
Chinese Censors Lift the Veil on Bloggers
Can China’s raucous, muckraking Internet culture survive if microbloggers are forced to disclose their identities.
Google Concedes Defeat in Chinese Censorship Battle
U.S. company quietly drops warning message that Chinese users saw when searching for politically sensitive phrases
Caixin Media
01.04.13
Why Are Entrepreneurs So Uneasy?
I’m often asked whether it’s more difficult for a Chinese company to survive now than it was in the 1980s, when I started my business. The two eras are indeed different. Many entrepreneurs with whom I shared the stage at awards ceremonies have...
China Insists Reporter Was Not Forced to Leave
China is still considering the visa application of a New York Times journalist who the paper says was forced to leave.
Why 'Breaking Bad' Should be Set in China
Records of large drug busts involving meth in recent years--an increasingly common occurrence--tend to show a trail that leads back to China.
Times Reporter in China is Forced to Leave over Visa Issue
A correspondent who applied for press accreditation in September left because authorities did not act by Dec. 31.
China Expels Journalist after Wen Revelations
An New York Times reporter was expelled from China in apparent retaliation for a report about the Chinese Premier's wealth.
Chinese Taste for Fish Rankles
A Wall Street Journal report on the seizure of Chinese fishing boats off Argentina highlights China’s growing appetite for seafood and its geopolitical effects.
China's Giant New Warplane Will Look Awfully Familiar to the U.S. Air Force
China's military has released photos of a prototype heavy transport warplane resembling the U.S. Air Force’s workhorse C-17.
China Assails U.S. Over Alliance with Japan and Possible F-16 Sales to Taiwan
State-run news media attacked the passage of a new U.S. military spending bill that is awaiting President Obama’s signature.
Yiwu's Purveyors of Christmas Tat Give China a Dose of Ho-Ho-Ho
China’s Christmas lights used to be only in Shanghai and Beijing, but now brisk sales are going to small provincial city shops.
Food For Thought
Food companies play an ambivalent part in the fight against flab. China's packaged food sales are 3-4 times their 2002 level.
Focus Media Makes Deal in Biggest China Leveraged Buyout
Focus joins a growing number of Chinese stocks withdrawing from US exchanges after corporate governance concerns depressed their valuations.
Chinese Directors Call for Censorshp Reform
Chinese filmmakers are calling for a system of classifying films according to their suitability for audiences of different ages.
Infographics
12.19.12
A Comparison of China’s and America’s Richest People
CNPolitics, a Chinese-language news website,...
Who Was Monica Liang?
A Chicago lawyer who has lured millions in Chinese investment said he was impressed by Liang's ability to build relationships.
Caixin Media
12.16.12
Mobile Phones Souring Africa’s Image of China
Every day, about a dozen mobile phone wholesalers field orders and manufacturer offers from offices inside a nondescript, five-story building on Luthuli Avenue in downtown Nairobi.
The building doesn’t look like a hub for global commerce,...
Don’t Underestimate China’s Luxury Market
China’s luxury market — and the global phenomenon of “trading up”— are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips,...
China Trade Slowdown Shows Xi Must Fuel Consumption
The new Communist leaders must reduce China’s reliance on exports to sustain expansion as the country faces a wealth gap that runs a risk of fomenting social unrest.
Signals in China of a More Open Economy
Xi Jinping, the new Communist Party head, visited Shenzhen in south...
Caixin Media
12.07.12
Who Pays When a Wealth Product Fails?
A crowd of angry investors packed a Shanghai branch of Huaxia Bank on December 3 after they heard that the money wasn’t there for the first of four repayments for a 119 million-yuan wealth management plan. They demanded their money back from...
China GDP: If Not 10%, Then What
Standard Chartered economist says China's GDP is likely to grow 7% over the next five years without big interim reforms.
Mongolia Finds China Can Be Too Close for Comfort
In a global rush to get rich off China, Mongolia works to ensure that Chinese investment doesn't become Chinese dominance.
From Bubble to Muddling Through
Two measures of manufacturing activity, the official Purchasing Managers Index and the HSBC Purchasing Managers Index, both rose above 50, which indicates expansion, for the first time in months. All is not rosy though, as this ...
S.E.C. Probe Puts China Listings in Doubt
The watchdog's look at Chinese affiliates of five U.S. major accounting firms deals a blow to China firms eyeing U.S. captial.
S.E.C. Charges the Chinese Affiliates of 5 Big Accounting Firms
The U.S. financial watchdog says the firms failed to produce work papers from their audits of several China-based companies that are under S.E.C. investigation.
Soft Power: China's Wanda Eyes U.S. Hotel, Movie Deals
Wanda, the world's No 1 movie theater owner, is planning a $10 billion spending spree to make Hollywood film co-productions and buy and build ...
China Overtaking U.S. as Global Trader
In just five years, China has surpassed the U.S. as a trading partner for much of the world. The first story in new Associated Press series on "...
Mr. China Comes to America
Near the end of this year’s second presidential debate, Candy Crowley of CNN pointed out that iPads, iPhones, and other globally sought-after Apple products are all made in China. What would it take, she asked both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama,...
French Firms Must Fight China for Stake in Africa -- Moscovici
Finance Minister says France must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of China for a stake in Africa's markets.
China Will Top U.S. as Biggest Film Market in the World by 2020: Study
Box office haul in China, which now stands as the second-largest film market in the world after Japan, will surpass that in the U.S. by 2020, according to Ernst & Young.
Is Capital Flight Taking Place in China?
Some analysts argue that China's tremendous capital outflow implies many people are losing confidence in China’s economy.
China at Center of Global Illegal Timber Trade, NGO says
China's $4 billion annual timber appetite is driving illegal trade and stripping African and Asian forests and fuelling conflict, the Environmental Investigation Agency says.
State Meddling Stifles China's Film Industry
The release of Lu Chuan's latest film was delayed until after the recent leadership transition. The film depicts the bloody machinations of the first Han emperor's wife.
China's Ping An Eyes Legal Action after NYT Report on Leader's Family Wealth
Chinese Insurance giant said recent media coverage contained "serious inaccuracies, facts being distorted and taken out of context."
China WIll Build the Tallest Building in the World in Just 90 Days
Sky City and its 2,749 feet distributed over 220 floors will grow in just 90 days in Changsha city, at the rate of five floors per day.
Environment
11.15.12
China’s Low-Carbon Zones Lack Motivation, Guidance, and Ideas
from chinadialogueNone of China’s so-called low-carbon industrial zones currently live up to the name. That’s the conclusion to draw from the work of the U.S. Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), which this year released a...
Opinion: Don't Expect Radical Reforms in China
If Li Keqiang walks on stage second it will suggest the premier post has been upgraded to a position of greater political clout.
China's Loans Unexpectedly Fall as Money Supply Misses Forecast
Central Bank governor warns China is still deal with the effects of five years of financial crisis overseas.