Jun 12, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: What We Can Learn From This Year’s Gaokao Essay Topics
- The writing portion of the most important test for tens of millions of Chinese high school students acts as a mirror, reflecting social trends back to the public
Jun 05, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: ‘Lying Flat’ Is the New Resistance Movement to Materialism
- In today’s society, the competition is endless and leads nowhere. Is there any more rebellious act than rejecting the rat race?
May 29, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: How to Break the Deadlock Over China’s Local Debt
- The central government wants to usher in a market- and law-based default process, but local authorities don’t want it in their backyards
May 22, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: Views on China’s Green Transformation From Inside the Central Bank
- Zhou Chengjun, head of the PBOC’s financial research institute, talks green financial standards, carbon markets and whether Shanghai will be the country’s first carbon-neutral city
May 15, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: Tracking the Proliferation of Jargon in Chinese Society
- Understanding the increasing use of jargon can help us better read the current state of Chinese society
May 08, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Briefing: What China’s Policymakers Said About Financial Opening and Carbon Neutrality at Boao
- Views and insights from officials from the central bank, securities regulator and commerce ministry
Apr 17, 2021 11:32 AM- Weekend Long Read: Zhou Xiaochuan on the Key Questions Facing China’s Carbon Ambitions (Part 2)
- Former central bank governor talks about carbon markets, containing risk and why reducing emissions won’t add to wealth
Apr 03, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: From Housing to Financial Assets, How Chinese Allocate Their Growing Wealth
- Housing assets have taken a huge share due to the flood of money driving up prices
Mar 27, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Remembering the People’s Republic’s Early American Friends
- Historian Zi Zhongyun recounts visits by playwright Arthur Miller, civil rights activist Shirley Du Bois and old China hand John Service, just as the country was opening up
Mar 20, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: How Chinese Society Fell Out of Love With Marriage
- As China’s economy has grown, it marriage rate has fallen, its divorce rate has risen, and people are waiting longer to tie the knot. The trends pose alarming challenges for society that policymakers need to address
Mar 13, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: What Electric Fans Tell Us About China’s Industrial Policy
- Industrial policy has evolved over the years, but the early days showed the downside of having the government pick winners
Feb 27, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why China Can’t Put Off Pension Reform Any Longer
- Former central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan’s book ‘Framework and Path of Pension Reform’ offers numerous ideas for solving this pressing problem
Feb 20, 2021 09:30 AM- Zhou Xiaochuan: China’s Choices in Developing Its Digital Currency System
- Former central bank chief explains the reasoning behind the country’s digital currency payments system
Feb 13, 2021 09:00 AM- Long Read: The End of the Written Word? Not Just Yet
- Big tech’s prognosticators are predicting that the future is video, but there are plenty of ways that text is still superior, writes Peking University professor Hu Yong
Feb 06, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: Deaths on the Job Make People Mull the Meaning of Work
- The meat grinder of working life has more people recognizing their limitations and contemplating their own mortality
Jan 30, 2021 12:00 PM- Weekend Long Read: Do’s and Don’ts for China’s Tech Self-Sufficiency Dream
- It is imperative for the country to innovate on its own, but it’s also essential to determine which innovations should be driven by the government and which by the market
Jan 23, 2021 12:00 PM- Weekend Read: ‘Loneliest Species’ Gets Second Chance at Survival
- The critically endangered Yangtze giant softshell turtle was thought to be on the brink of extinction, until several more were discovered in Vietnam
Jan 16, 2021 13:00 PM- Weekend Long Read: Why China’s Underperfoming Cities Need a Level Playing Field
- Cities at a higher administrative level boast a healthier environment for doing business, but that needs to change, writes a team of research fellows at a think tank
Jan 10, 2021 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Decoupling Would Go Poorly for China
- China still relies on developed economies and can’t expect change from a new U.S. administration, but there is a way forward, writes economist Xu Xiaonian
Jan 02, 2021 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why China’s North-South Economic Gap Keeps Getting Bigger
- The growing divergence between the two regions illustrates why a market-driven economy is preferable to a planned one
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