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WiC 303 (Nov 13, 2015)

Strait talking in Singapore

Cross Strait, Talking Point Historic meeting a litmus test for cross-Strait relations

In August 1945 Mao Zedong boarded a plane for the first time in his life. The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) leader was flying to China’s wartime ...

The view from the streets

China Consumer We visit Hangzhou to see impact of Singles’ Day on city’s…

Regular readers of Week in China will know that in celebration of our 300th edition, we compiled a volume of 300 Chinese proverbs. One of them was the ...

Back to Blighty

Corporate Q&A Why a yak-wear brand is now making its apparel in the…

Back in WiC50 we published an article about an unusual Sino-British startup. We termed it “Tibet’s first fashion” brand and asked whether the ...

National lottery

Banking & Finance CSRC lifts ban, but changes IPO funding rules

Formed 20 years ago as a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and China Construction Bank, China International Capital Corp (CICC) was once the ...

Roaring success

Economy Two more tigers fall, how many more to catch?

On Wednesday Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign claimed its first ‘tiger’ in Beijing – the city’s deputy Party chief Lü Xiwen. The day before, ...

Gunning for growth

Property How a business mogul raised his initial investment – with a…

A story in the Bible tells of a rich man with three servants. Before going away on a long trip, he entrusts each of them with some money. Two use the ...

Aviation C919 goes on display, but yet to take off

Drole de coincidence? (a funny coincidence).” Such was the reaction of the French press to the unveiling of China’s first homegrown passenger jet ...

She’s feeling super

Entertainment Li Bingbing cast by Hollywood in Chinese superhero movie

When Mao Zedong said that “Women hold up half the sky,” he probably didn’t have a female superhero in mind. But Hollywood studio executives and ...

Sail of the century

Shipping Cruise companies hope for onboard bonanza from Chinese tourists

It perhaps says something about the limited origins of the Chinese cruise industry that the word for a luxury ship is youlun or “mail steamer”. ...

Energy & Resources Hanergy receives fresh blow from Swedish giant

Louis XIV of France, or the Sun King as he styled himself, holds the record as Europe’s longest reigning monarch (72 years, 110 days, in case you ...

Red Star China's pianist hits wrong notes

Born in Chongqing in October 1982, Li Yundi is a classical pianist who became the youngest person to win the International Frederic Chopin Piano ...

Planet China The Irish whiskey Jameson got an unexpected sales boost when pop…

The Irish whiskey Jameson got an unexpected sales boost when pop sensation Rihanna sang “Oh, let the Jameson sink in” as part of the chorus to her ...

All is good on planet Mars

Sino-File “Even if the growth drops to 5%, China is still a…

Grant Reid, the boss of chocolate firm Mars, tells the China Daily that the Chinese economy is still “very strong”. He added that his investment ...

The day Shenyang’s air pollution went off the charts

Cartoons The day Shenyang’s air pollution went off the charts

Matt Damon’s movie The Martian gave us a little more insight into how humankind can survive in supremely inhospitable environments. The film ...

And Finally Canada’s beauty queen barred from Hainan

Canadians hoping that 2015 would be the year they finally win a Miss World competition are going to be disappointed. Why? Because China – this ...