The appointment will make Zhang the first Chinese national to join the BIS’ senior management team in its 92-year history

Technical changes to the way profits are booked and a shift in the sales model are also hitting earnings

Several companies including Ping An and China Life have launched an emergency response to help get compensation to victims

China launches a probe into commodities while the country will release metals from its strategic reserves

Huang Liangbo fills position left by Yang Guozhong after serving in similar position at People’s Insurance Co. in long financial-system career

Luo Xi, Communist Party chief and chairman of China Taiping Insurance, will take over the same positions at PICC

Kangmei’s controlling shareholder is placed in custody after the drugmaker’s $12.6 billion reporting fraud; PICC’s 2nd-largest holder to sell down stake

Outbreak exposes shortcomings in insurance system for live hogs as industry calls for change

As deadline for repaying investors approaches, Founder’s biggest stockholder moves to take over real estate unit, which could affect company’s ability to resolve debt crisis

Bank credit dries up for high-risk industry; government subsidies fall short; and livestock insurance turns out to be unreliable, farmers find

China’s dominant power utility will build 1,500-kilometer ultra-high voltage line in cooperation with People’s Insurance Company of China

China Securities deemed overvalued after stock price almost triples in a month

Citic Securities advises investors to dump PICC as overvalued after stock more than doubled this year; company issues own risk reminder

China’s largest property insurer likely to raise around $2.4 billion