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Jun 14, 2021 16:13 PM

Editorial: How to Break Local Governments’ Addiction to Land Sales Revenue
It is necessary to accelerate fiscal and taxation reform, straighten out the fiscal relationship between levels of government, and regulate tax revenue while ensuring that local governments have the wherewithal to build their economies and provides services to the people
Jun 10, 2021 16:09 PM

Opinion: Chinese Consumers Are Serious About Cutting Carbon
By Peter Reynolds
Vast majority say corporate commitments to reducing emissions to net zero influence their preferences
Jun 09, 2021 19:51 PM

Opinion: What’s Driving Chinese Parents to Sacrifice Everything at the Altar of Education?
By Li Jingkui
The national obsession with doing everything possible to get children into the best schools is a sign that social mobility is in decline
Jun 09, 2021 18:27 PM

Opinion: Trusted Marketplaces Are Key to Meeting the Climate Challenge
By Michael Syn
A purpose-led marketplace can pioneer pathways to achieve sustainability commitments and co-opt active citizenry through products, platforms and technology
Jun 08, 2021 19:25 PM

Opinion: China Must Not Forget HIV
By Winnie Byanyima
China’s support for a strong United Nations political declaration on HIV is vital if the world is to end the decades-long global epidemic
Jun 07, 2021 20:08 PM

Zhou Xiaochuan: The Issues Under Debate Over How China Can Go Carbon Neutral
By Zhou Xiaochuan
The country accounts for almost one-third of the global carbon emissions, so it’s crucial it takes the right path to hitting its own targets
Jun 07, 2021 18:10 PM

Editorial: Reform — Not Subsidies — Is the Way to Get People to Have More Children
To increase birthrates, China needs structural reforms aimed at reducing income inequality, ensuring equal opportunity, promoting common prosperity and boosting social security
Jun 07, 2021 16:46 PM

Hu Shuli: Can the Three-Child Policy Defuse China’s Demographic Time Bomb?
By Hu Shuli
Stemming a steep decline in birth rates through a policy shift cannot be done without also tackling soaring housing prices and the severe shortage of affordable child care
Jun 04, 2021 17:49 PM

Opinion: Inflation Is Like Opium — It’s Easy to Get Hooked, but Hard to Quit
As pressure mounts, asset allocation strategies have now become more important and complex than ever
Jun 04, 2021 17:45 PM

Opinion: How Will the Covid-19 Resurgence in Southeast Asia Affect China?
By Peng Wensheng
If the coronavirus spreads on a large scale in the region, or countries there introduce stricter containment measures, some orders may end up getting redirected to companies on the Chinese mainland
Jun 02, 2021 20:19 PM

Opinion: Preventing Destructive Confrontation ― Perspectives from the Shanghai Middle Class
By Cheng Li
China’s hundreds of millions of middle-class residents hold open-minded, worldly views and values, demand government accountability, and posses a strong desire to work with the United States
Jun 02, 2021 18:53 PM

Caixin ESG Biweekly: China’s Evolving Climate Policymaking Framework
By Caixin Insight
Chief representative of the Environmental Defense Fund’s China Program Zhang Jianyu offers insights into how Beijing’s climate policy has shifted in recent decades
Jun 01, 2021 19:29 PM

Wang Tao: China’s Demographic Challenges for the Next Decade (Part 2)
By Wang Tao
The country’s peaking population will create problems that will ripple through the economy, including a smaller labor force and an increasingly stressed pension system
May 31, 2021 17:08 PM

Editorial: When It Comes to Taxing Property, the Method Matters
The real estate tax law is expected to become a paradigm of rational legislation, creating short and long-term benefits
May 28, 2021 13:39 PM

Wang Tao: China’s Demographic Challenges for the Next Decade (Part 1)
By Wang Tao
The release of the country’s much anticipated census data offers a chance to look back at past predictions to see what can be gleaned about the future
May 28, 2021 07:50 AM

Opinion: The Need for Sino-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations
By Huang Shan
Starting from a shared goal of bettering people’s lives, the world’s two biggest economies should join forces to fight the threat to humanity of climate change
May 27, 2021 20:27 PM

Zhang Wenhong: Division Stands in the Way of Defeating the Pandemic
By Zhang Wenhong
The power of cooperation is the only tool we have to emerge from the shadow of Covid-19, says the Chinese infectious disease expert
May 25, 2021 18:15 PM

Wang Shuo: Why Interdependence Between Nations Is Not as Reliable as It Seems
By Wang Shuo
China has been successful in handling past economic and political issues separately, and with wisdom and experience that is worth remembering
May 25, 2021 05:07 AM

Opinion: Should Extreme Cross-Country Racing Be Suspended?
By Zhang Fan
Deaths of 21 runners in freezing weather expose flaws in China’s deregulated and burgeoning sporting events industry, suggesting the need for an overhaul
May 24, 2021 16:41 PM

Editorial: The Market Value Management Business Must Be Broken and Remade
There is a complete dark industrial chain of market manipulation disguised as market value management