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WiC 124 (Sep 30, 2011)

China’s eurozone worries

Economy, Talking Point Beijing ponders whether it can hold ‘steady’ if Europe triggers crisis

"Stay steady to deal with all the changes around you” is a maxim that generations of Chinese Zen Buddhists have practiced. Beijing policymakers ...

Detroit’s unlikely success?

Auto Industry Insider view on how GM cracked China market, and its electric…

In a carefully choreographed act, General Motor’s board of directors had a high-profile away day last month, gathering in Shanghai for the firm’s ...

Accidents of birth

Others You don’t know China, till you grasp its provincial stereotypes

Poor Henan. The reputation of this central province, a cradle of China’s “Yellow River” civilisation, is probably the worst of the country’s 31 ...

Real estate enigma

Property Fathoming China’s property market is tough

If the stockmarket is anything to go by, China’s property prices are heading south. Last week, real estate stocks took a tumble, with several Hong ...

Lenovo’s pastoral idyll

China Consumer Rural appliances scheme boosted domestic demand. Why end it?

All good things eventually come to an end, and China’s home appliance subsidy programme – aimed at rural consumers – is no different. Back in ...

Maintaining privacy

Banking & Finance Why China Life covets privately-held Minsheng Bank

Originally a seller of vitamin supplements, Shi Yuzhu is nowadays best known as the “Chief Gaming Officer” at Giant Interactive Group, an online ...

Feeling dumped on

Economy Why China’s keen to get market economy status

Chicken feet should count as a win-win for Sino-US relations. In America there are few takers for the sinewy fare, much more likely to end up as pet ...

Southern comfort for Airbus

Aviation In a world first, Chinese airline will use A380 on domestic…

Four years after the A380 first began to fly commercially, a Chinese carrier is about to take receipt of its first Airbus double-decker. China ...

Energy & Resources Changes to the resource tax look set to fill the coffers…

Karamay is one of Xinjiang’s oil towns. Legend has it that in the 1940s, an aged Uighur man called Salimuhu found a mysterious black oil that could ...

Banking & Finance More debtors do runners

Bad debts are putting pressure on China’s shadow banking industry. One of Wenzhou’s more prominent businessmen, Hu Fulin was unofficially known as ...

The Chinese Steve Jobs

Who’s Hu Lei Jun

Born in Xiantao, Hubei province, Lei Jun had an unusual talent. As a student of the computer science department in Wuhan University from 1987 to 1991 ...

“There’s a shark in my soup”

Society Chinese sports icon tries to persuade compatriots to ditch shark fin…

His basketball team may call the Shanghai Sharks, but Yao Ming is not a fan of shark’s fin soup. Last week, the recently retired basketball star ...

Sport China buyer pays $210,000 for a racing pigeon

Pigeons have a long association with wealth creation. Think back to Nathan Rothschild. In an era before Bloomberg terminals, the London banker used the ...

Society Auction house caught out

Pablo Picasso once proclaimed, “We all know that art is not truth.” And last week, a group of former art students suggested as much once again, ...

Democratic deficit

Planet China Running a democracy is an expensive business, and all the razzmatazz…

Running a democracy is an expensive business, and all the razzmatazz of a US presidential battle doesn’t come cheap: the 2008 election cost around $3 ...

Netizens bark in disapproval

And Finally After online uproar a centuries-old ‘dog-eating’ festival is scrapped

Sometimes referred to as “fragrant meat” or “mutton of the earth”, dog has been eaten in China for thousands of years. The philosopher ...