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News on the Chinese Economy

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Enough is enough

Hurun sparks a ‘financial freedom’ debate
Apr 9, 2021 (WiC 535)

How much money do you need to be financially independent in China? That’s the question the Shanghai-based Hurun Report tried to answer last month. The headline figures are these: to achieve base-level ‘financial freedom’ in first-tier ...

Why are local governments suddenly investing in private sector firms?
Apr 1, 2021 (WiC 534)

Various entrepreneurs have been styled as “China’s Warren Buffett” over the years, including Duan Yongping, the tycoon orchestrator behind Pinduoduo and OPPO (see WiC49), and Guo Guangchang, who founded biotech-to-property conglomerate ...

Love and losses

Two marital breakdowns hit corporate China
Apr 1, 2021 (WiC 534)

No one ever wants to become a customer of Weiqing Network Technologies, a Shanghai-based firm that specialises in saving marriages from divorce. But demand was still strong enough for its services to fuel a filing to go public in 2017. Weiqing ...

A policy paradox explained

Top China strategist discusses Dual Circulation and Chinese export boom
Mar 26, 2021 (WiC 533)

Shanghai-based Jonathan Anderson is one of the most respected analysts on China’s economy. As president of boutique research house Emerging Advisors Group he has been generating insights at that firm for global investors for the past 10 years. ...

Chinese New Year plans hit by travel bans
Jan 15, 2021 (WiC 524)

A month ago China was gearing up for a relatively normal Lunar New Year celebration. Restaurants and shops were taking on extra staff in preparation for the holiday surge and transport companies were bracing themselves for the usual annual ...

Merkel makes it happen

What is the significance of the newly signed China-EU investment deal?
Jan 8, 2021 (WiC 523)

Dealmakers from the European Union have a reputation for negotiating to the very last minute. And so it proved again on Christmas Eve last month, when a trade and cooperation agreement with the UK was struck as the clock ticked perilously close ...

2020 vision, as we look back

A select group of companies tell the story of how China’s changed since 2010
Dec 11, 2020 (WiC 522)

Over the first 10 years of the 21st century the Iraq War in 2003 was the second-most read about news item. The death of pop star Michael Jackson in 2009 ranked fifth and the election of Barack Obama as US president came sixth. Yet the biggest ...

No more penury?

China says it has eliminated extreme poverty
Dec 4, 2020 (WiC 521)

In October the World Bank forecast that Covid-19 could push 150 million people around the world into extreme poverty. Not so in China, where the central government’s poverty alleviation campaign went into overdrive ahead of an all-important ...

The default option

Chinese bond market roiled as issuers miss payments, hurting confidence
Nov 27, 2020 (WiC 520)

The Chinese bond market can trace its roots back to the 19th century, when provincial governments within the Qing empire issued bonds to foreign investors, raising funds to build roads and railways, or fight bandits. Some of these bonds even made ...

The power of five

What you need to know about China’s Five-Year Plans
Nov 6, 2020 (WiC 517)

For the Communist Party of China (CPC), a planning exercise bestowed by comrades from the former Soviet Union is a gift that keeps on giving. In the early 1950s Chinese leaders watched as the USSR rapidly rebuilt its war-torn economy. They ...

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