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WiC 538 (Apr 30, 2021)

Shanghai’s drive-thru

Auto Industry, Talking Point Why the Shanghai Auto Show was a landmark event for the…

This month’s Shanghai car show has taken top billing as the biggest gathering in the industry since the onset of the pandemic. Organisers this year ...

Internet & Tech Meituan hit with antitrust probe days after its $10 billion fundraising

Meituan’s boss Wang Xing has personal experience of the ‘pick-one-out-of-two’ tactics now being targeted by China’s antitrust regulators. The ...

Belt and Road, China and the World Sino-Aussie ties worsen further over BRI deal

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is inspired by the ancient Silk Road, which stimulated trade and cultural exchange for thousands of miles ...

Too good to be true

China Consumer A sugar-free local brand challenges Pepsi and Coca-Cola – then apologises

Xu Han, who is in his mid-20s, admits that he hasn’t had a soft drink in a long time. In the past, he told ThePaper.cn, his family often served ...

A sensitive census

Economy State bureau refutes claim population declined

China has reported an increase in population every year since the famines of the early 1960s. Since 1965 the number of mainland Chinese has doubled ...

Banking & Finance How might Beijing deal with Huarong’s crisis?

Some investors thought the worst was over for China Huarong in late January. That was when the former boss of the “bad bank” Lai Xiaomin was ...

Internet & Tech Zheng buys Korean LCD materials business

Cedar trees symbolise strength and eternity in Chinese culture. In Mandarin they are described as shanshan and the name is an apt one for a ...

Energy & Resources State-backed Minmetals now an antitrust target

Ten years after retiring as Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao made an unexpected return to the spotlight this month after penning a short series of articles ...

Coming out party

Property What’s next for an ex-con property tycoon?

Shanghai LandShanghai has seen some of the biggest increases in property prices in China over the last 20 years. Residents of the country’s financial ...

China Consumer Chopstick maker to IPO in Shenzhen

Primitive forms of forks – made from animal bones – have been unearthed in burial sites in China’s Gansu province. They date back 4,000 years and ...

Red Star An engineer wins hearts and minds

A sense of stoicism is admired in Chinese culture. Take the expression chiku, which translates as “eating bitterness”, suggesting that ...

Entertainment Air-con tycoon Dong Mingzhu stars in Chinese version of The Apprentice

Even though the Chinese economy has rebounded strongly from the worst of the pandemic – seeing an 18.3% rise in GDP in the first quarter of this year ...

Shot in the arm

Sino-File “The new Covid-19 production base can produce about 250 million doses…

Yu Xuefeng, founder and CEO of CanSino Biologics, talks to the China Daily as the first doses of its vaccine rolled off the production line last ...

Red carpet crackdown

And Finally Zhao wins Best Director at the Oscars, but there’s no celebration…

The 93rd Academy Awards, held last Sunday, were significant for several reasons. This year’s nominations were mainly for films that had been watched ...