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WiC 327 (Jun 3, 2016)

Jumping Jack bashed

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Alibaba has a bad month over fake goods, fake trades and…

What we are proud of most today is not how many goods we sell, but the exploration and innovation we’ve made in terms of intellectual property ...

Delivering the goods

Banking & Finance, Logistics SF Express seeks big fundraising to finance its new airport

Seven years ago the Dalian-based tailor Dayang Trands celebrated its 30th anniversary with a promotional film featuring a certain Warren ...

Property Home prices in second-tier Chinese cities heat up, especially in Xiamen

When China lost the Opium War to Britain in 1841, Xiamen was one of the first ports to be forced open for trade with the West. Called Amoy back then, ...

Mills to Maranhao

China and the World Why China is shipping its steel plants to Brazil

Flavio Dino, governor of the state of Maranhao in Brazil has a few things in common with China’s leader Xi Jinping. Both are members of their ...

Energy & Resources China wants a say in fixing bullion prices

When Samuel Montagu set up his merchant bank in 1853, the British Empire was in its full pomp. The Great Exhibition – showcasing goods from across ...

China Consumer ‘Coke of China’ ditches red can for Angry Birds

Despite the waning global popularity of the mobile game Angry Birds, it has found unwavering loyalty amongst gamers in China, where it has been ...

Emotional obituary

Ask Mei Millennials and marriage

The death last week of the writer, playwright and translator Yang Jiang 杨绛 at the age of 105 caused a stir on China’s social media. It seemed ...

Red Star My fair princess

Born in Taipei, Lin Xinru, 40, got her start as a part-time model when she was 17. Also known as Ruby Lin, she became a household name in Taiwan after ...

Who’s Hu YTO Express

Tonglu is the hometown for many of China’s courier services. Nearly 80% of the more than one million delivery staff across the country work for ...

Society Changes to university quotas spark protests

Seven years ago WiC cited a comment by former Premier Wen Jiaobao, who was ruing the declining number of rural students at Chinese universities. ...

Historic moment

Entertainment Why the Peng Dehuai biopic could be the last of its…

Mao Zedong’s eldest son Mao Anying fought, unlike his father, outside China. Legend has it that he served in Joseph Stalin’s tank troops that ...

Not such a magic kingdom?

M&A Wanda boss picks a fight with newcomer Disney

Judging from its frequent mentions in the press and social media, the term ‘super IP’ might become China’s buzzword of the year. It refers to ...

Planet China One of the most popular Chinese food products in the US…

One of the most popular Chinese food products in the US is the Lao Gan Ma (meaning ‘old godmother’) brand of chilli sauce – a spicy paste that ...

Set to accelerate

Sino-File “I estimate it will not reach the peak until 40 million…

Dong Yang of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) offers his forecast on China’s ‘peak auto’ figure. Last year 24.59 million ...

A new fast train to Tibet

Cartoons A new fast train to Tibet

To travel by train between Sichuan’s capital Chengdu and Lhasa in Tibet takes around 40 hours. But an ambitious new railway line will see the 1,600km ...

It just won’t wash

And Finally Controversy over “world’s most racist TV advert”

Until last week few people had heard of Qiaobi, a washing powder company whose Chinese name means ‘better looking’. Now the brand is much better ...