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WiC 341 (Sep 30, 2016)

Property, Talking Point Legend Holdings sells property unit amid toppish market

Before becoming a real estate developer, Sunac China’s chairman Sun Hongbin began his career at Liu Chuanzhi’s computer firm Lenovo (then known as ...

Cream of the crop

M&A Is dairy products giant Yili set for a takeover by Sunshine…

Plenty of tycoons aspire to the title of China’s Warren Buffett. Increasingly, the country’s insurers seem to be modelling themselves on ...

Flying the flag

China Tourist Patriotic tourism on the rise for Chinese

Why do you go on holiday? To relax? To see new places? Or soak up the sun? WiC is guessing that ‘avenging historic wrongs’ and ‘furthering your ...

Environment More bad news for China’s coalminers

“I have repeatedly said that green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver.” So insisted Xi Jinping in his opening ...

Hardened resolve

Energy & Resources Indebted Sinosteel gets equity lifeline as sector shows signs of recovery

At the G20 meeting in Hangzhou at the start of September, world leaders took turns to press the Chinese to make cuts in their steel capacity. Xi ...

Digestion problems

China Consumer COFCO starts to deal with the aftermath of its massive acquisition…

Ning Gaoning was appointed as boss of COFCO in 2005. In 11 years he quadrupled the state food giant’s assets, primarily through mergers and ...

She’ll see you in court

Entertainment Veteran director hopes for an Oscar with his latest black comedy

Pan Jinlian is one of very few female characters in The Water Margin, one of the four classic novels in Chinese literature. But she has a huge impact. ...

Red Star The Chinese navy’s first female sea captain

Wei Huixiao, now 39, first impressed when she was studying at Nanjing University. Former US president George HW Bush visited and Wei – the captain of ...

Society China’s historical heroes get their day in court (again)

In 1952 a 26 year-old soldier called Qiu Shaoyun was lying in wait to attack an American-held hilltop in Korea. When a bomb exploded nearby, the straw ...

Battery banditry

Auto Industry China cracks down on subsidy cheats in electric vehicle market

In the US, Judy Garland famously sang one of her most iconic songs atop an electric trolley bus. But while the bell was going “ding ding ding” in ...

Auto Industry FAW to restructure ‘national car’ division as sales sag

The recent G20 meeting in Hangzhou threw up a number of new groupings, but none was quite so unusual as the one formed by Russia, Turkey, the US and ...

Planet China The world’s media have called it the most miserable polar bear…

The world’s media have called it the most miserable polar bear in the world – and having been named Pizza cannot have helped the animal’s mood. ...

Returning to reality

Sino-File “It was always clear, according to economic theory, that China’s 35-year…

Arvind Subramanian, a former IMF staffer – and currently the chief economic adviser to the government of India – told the Financial Times this ...

An even smarter smartphone

Cartoons An even smarter smartphone

In 1859 Sir William James Herschel discovered that fingerprints remain stable over time and each is unique. As a chief magistrate in the Raj he became ...

An arresting story

And Finally The story of a prisoner whose patent saved his life

Perhaps as a consequence of the TV censor’s escalating restrictions, more people are turning from the small screen to the real world in search of ...