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WiC 517 (Nov 6, 2020)

The power of five

Economy, Talking Point What you need to know about China’s Five-Year Plans

For the Communist Party of China (CPC), a planning exercise bestowed by comrades from the former Soviet Union is a gift that keeps on giving. In the ...

Banking & Finance World’s largest IPO pulled at last minute in major shock for…

For investors stunned by the last-minute shelving of Ant Group’s $35 billion IPO on Tuesday, it is worth rewinding to the Bund Summit in Shanghai ...

The missing link

Belt and Road Slow progress for China’s ‘Pan-Asian’ railway

Will China’s new railway through Southeast Asia learn much from its African predecessor, the Cape to Cairo railroad championed by nineteenth century ...

The lamp of learning

Economy Bytedance pushes into education sector with maiden hardware offering

For children who grew up watching the Disney movie Aladdin, the bronze lamp was an object of fascination. Give it a few rubs and it released ...

Navigating the data

Economy HSBC’s regional corporate banking boss discusses key results of new survey…

The latest outing of HSBC’s Navigator survey came out in the same week as the third iteration of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in ...

Logistics China’s top couriers turn up the heat on fledgling rival Jitu…

For delivery firms in China, no other time of the year is more exciting than the Singles’ Day festival. This year the sector will handle an average ...

Change of style

China Consumer Can pop star revive HLA’s flagging fortunes

Are the young people who drank U-loveit milk tea, donned Metersbonwe casual wear and rode around on Evermaster motorcycles – all habits associated ...

Thirst quencher

Environment Water transfer project back in the headlines

When Mao Zedong first mooted the idea of the South-North Water Diversion Project in 1952 ‘corporatisation’ was not one of the terms in his ...

Internet & Tech Baidu set to pay $3 billion for livestream firm

If two negatives can really make a positive, perhaps the deal between search giant Baidu – struggling for growth – and the ailing livestreamer YY ...

Town versus country

Society ‘Farmer’ livestreamer stokes row with bigger rival in bid to win…

Outside China typing “辛巴” into a Google search will generate hits related to the fictional character Simba from The Lion King. Putting ...

Client connection

Sino-File “It’s very important that I come here in person. Fundamentally, you…

Roy van den Hurk, general manager of Milk New Zealand Dairy, explains to the China Daily why he went through two weeks of quarantine in a Shanghai ...

Grin or grimace?

And Finally Public anger at new frontiers in facial recognition

When companies first started rolling out facial recognition technology across China, some members of the public were enthused by the promise that it ...