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News on the Chinese Economy

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Coming out of the crisis

Four areas to watch for signs that China’s economy is recovering
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

The pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic are unprecedented, creating widespread uncertainty about where the world is heading. They make the mood more febrile and suspicious too. Claims of no new domestic infections for days at a time in China are ...

Life after lockdown

A Hubei resident talks about how she felt when quarantine ended
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

What does it feel like to leave your home after six weeks indoors? Week in China spoke to a Hubei resident in February about her time under quarantine (see WiC484). Now she talks about how she reacted to her release from weeks of domestic ...

Going for growth

How will China stimulate its virus-hit economy?
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

At the height of the 2008 global financial crisis China rolled out a Rmb4 trillion ($572 billion) stimulus package to stop its economy from crashing. The short-term impact was obvious. The economy grew 9.8% on average from 2009 to 2011. Massive ...

Port in a storm

Returnees bring spike in Hong Kong infections
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

Hong Kong has been in the front line of the fight against the coronavirus since mid-January, doing remarkably well in ‘flattening the curve’ in new infections, perhaps because many of its residents remember the SARS outbreak, which killed 299 ...

Fury over ‘Chinese virus’ in nasty diplomatic row
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Where did the coronavirus come from? Bats, you might say, and indeed that’s what most scientists currently assume. But the governments of China and America are more interested in where the virus originated from a geographical perspective. Over ...

Covid-19 threatens China’s 10-year growth target
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

It was the year that Steve Jobs founded Apple, Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast to get a perfect score at the Olympics; and saw the release of the first of the Rocky films, launching the career of Sylvester Stallone. More ...

The pocket doctors

Phones on the front line in containment battle
Mar 5, 2020 (WiC 485)

More than a month since China’s fight against the coronavirus epidemic took centre-stage there are signs that business is steadily creeping back into city life. One of the early indications was the online retailers of fresh food, who are now ...

The show can’t go on

The coronavirus outbreak wreaks havoc on China’s events circuit
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

When Klaus Schwab was planning the European Management Forum in 1971, Deng Xiaoping was ‘re-educating’ himself at a tractor factory in Jiangxi. But when Schwab heard that a rehabilitated Deng was launching economic reforms in early 1979, the ...

Coronavirus creates crisis for China’s SMEs
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

There are more than 30 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The definition includes everything from the smallest of noodle shops to factories with a staff of ...

Life under lockdown

A personal account of living in quarantine in Hubei
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

A week ago the New York Times calculated that roughly 150 million Chinese had been confined to their homes to help contain the coronavirus outbreak. A further 600 million were subject to lesser restrictions on movement. In total, more than ...

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