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Jun 17, 2021 18:37 PM

Opinion: Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Trojan Horse From China
The cryptocurrency’s volatility makes it difficult to spend and a poor store of value —in other words an ineffective tool for undermining the U.S. dollar
Jun 16, 2021 18:17 PM

Fisher: Broader Indexes Offer Better Stock Portfolio Benchmarks
A more wide-ranging benchmark, like the MSCI China Index, better captures the country’s economic breadth
Jun 16, 2021 07:44 AM

Opinion: China’s Digital Yuan Wallet Designed to Meet Everyone’s Needs
PBOC is building an ecosystem that will create a matrix allowing users to personalize functionality, writes Mu Changchun
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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)
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 16:35 PM

My Gentle Grandmother and the Sacrifices of the Chinese Countryside
Rural people’s indomitable spirit has played a crucial part in China’s dazzling progress. Their sacrifices should never be forgotten
May 28, 2021 13:39 PM

Wang Tao: China’s Demographic Challenges for the Next Decade (Part 1)
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
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