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News on the Chinese Economy

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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 ...

The lamp of learning

Bytedance pushes into education sector with maiden hardware offering
Nov 6, 2020 (WiC 517)

For children who grew up watching the Disney movie Aladdin, the bronze lamp was an object of fascination. Give it a few rubs and it released an all-powerful genie, happy to grant you a wish. A new lamp reminiscent of that magical ...

Navigating the data

HSBC’s regional corporate banking boss discusses key results of new survey
Nov 6, 2020 (WiC 517)

The latest outing of HSBC’s Navigator survey came out in the same week as the third iteration of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, an annual showcasing of trading opportunities which began this week. In a year defined ...

Life begins at forty

President Xi tours Shenzhen to celebrate city’s major milestone
Oct 23, 2020 (WiC 515)

You start out with a remote fishing village and then you add free markets, hardworking people and buccaneering entrepreneurs. What do you get? Surging growth and the emergence of an economic powerhouse that becomes the envy of its peers. If ...

Don’t wreck the wok

“China’s Donald Trump” sentenced to 18 years in jail
Sep 25, 2020 (WiC 512)

A decade ago the property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang was one of the highest paid bosses in China. Back then he also started to be known as “Ren the Cannon” for his controversial comments, typically about issues in the real estate sector. Looking for ...

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