EDM 1 – Issue 500

As Week in China reaches its 500th issue, we look back at eleven-and-a-half years of telling the China story. How did WiC get started and who and what have we written about most?

Also: Beijing in ‘soft’ lockdown amid new Covid crisis; which A-shares are most popular with foreign fund managers; Huawei works with BYD in bid to profit from driverless cars 

Plus: Qihoo 360 joins the challenger banks; how Hainan’s free trade plan is starting to take shape; and Midea’s founder in home kidnap drama