132 Archives | Week In China

Sorry, you have not enabled Javascript for your internet browser, so some of our website's pages may not render as fully as intended.
Please Click here for easy instructions on how to enable Javascript on your browser or consult your IT support staff for help.

Back Issue

WiC 132 (Dec 9, 2011)

All in the line of duties

China and the World, Talking Point This weekend marks China’s tenth anniversary as a WTO member

"When I opened this business, the reaction of my friends and family was ‘Are you crazy?’” says Lee Jae. The firm in question is Georgia ...

Economy Makers of Christmas products look closer to home for sales

Whisper it quietly but Father Christmas looks as though he will be underemployed this year, with exports of Chinese toys and gifts to Europe down by ...

The Rmb64 billion question

Energy & Resources PetroChina and Sinopec report huge refining losses; the NDRC disagrees

Accounting data in the Chinese oil industry makes for an unlikely hot topic. But a massive discrepancy between two sets of statistics on the refining ...

China’s euro fears

China and the World Chinese debate potential for break-up of the euro

James Carville, the US political strategist, once said that, should he be reincarnated, he would like to come back as the bond market, because then ...

Skin in the game

China Consumer Japanese cosmetics firm Kao ramps up China ambitions to catch P&G

"We have to change our tactics in China,” Kao’s chief executive Motoki Ozaki told The Wall Street Journal in an interview in July. The chief ...

Chips with everything

Agriculture Farmers are suffering losses after potato harvest produces glut

This year, Han Gang reaped a bumper harvest from his 80 mu (a Chinese measure, in this case equivalent 5.3 hectares) farm in a village to the north of ...

Queen of dumplings

Who’s Hu Zang Jianhe

Born in 1943, Zang Jianhe is a Qingdao native. Her first job was as a nurse in a local hospital, working together with her husband who was a ...

History Lessons Lose-lose situations

By putting pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate, the US is “hurting others but not benefitting oneself,” Xiang Songzuo, a ...

China Consumer Bacteria found in top-selling frozen dumplings

Dumplings are a popular meal in China, but they have rarely offered food for thought in terms of the wider public debate. That has changed, with ...

Energy & Resources The price of electricity is increased to avert a power shortage

Vladimir Lenin understood the importance of electricity in building a modern industrial state, going so far as to claim that “Communism is Soviet ...

Money is an aphrodisiac

Entertainment A love story about investment bankers looks set to be box…

Next week brings the premiere of Confidential, a big-budget film that dramatises the life of investment bankers. Interesting timing, you may ...

Sport Property falls, football follows

News that Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka is on the verge of signing with Shanghai Shenhua shows that there is still plenty of cash available in football ...

What’s CCTV for

Society Debate rages on role of media

Thousands of internet users poured scorn on the new head of the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) network this weekend, after he appeared to ...

Society Subjects culled at universities

They are known as the “ant tribe” (see WiC58): university graduates who live in cramped conditions in cities like Beijing and Shanghai because they ...

Lacking acceleration

Auto Industry China’s motorbike industry is facing problems both at home and abroad

In many ways, Chongqing is the perfect place to hold the annual China International Motorcycle Trade Exhibition (CIMA). The city is not only the ...

Planet China It puts a whole new spin on drunken sailors. According to…

It puts a whole new spin on drunken sailors. According to the Shanghai Daily a ship anchored off the China coast has been converted into a factory with ...

From Sichuan to Scotland

Cartoons From Sichuan to Scotland

Haggis and deep-fried Mars bars won’t be on the menu for two of Scotland’s most recently-arrived guests – who will prefer a lower-cholesterol ...

And Finally A consumer activist smashes Siemens fridges

"Fatty” Luo Yonghao is an internet celebrity and founder of the popular site bullog.cn, which had a reputation for criticising government policies ...