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- The city’s Covid struggles reflect the indispensable role of market economy — rather than central planning — in safeguarding people’s livelihoods
- May 07, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Why China’s Seniors Hesitate to Get Vaccinated
- The government has been trying to get shots specifically into the arms of people over 60 for more than a year, yet the vaccination rate of this most vulnerable group has remained consistently low
- Apr 30, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: China Can Learn From Japan’s Persistent Structural Economic Problems
- Noting that Beijing has succeeded in preventing ‘major’ bubbles, ex-BOJ Governor Shirakawa Masaaki underscores the importance of fiscal sustainability and central bank independence
- Apr 23, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: The Challenges of Building Up China’s Biobank
- Obstacles remain to funding, data handling, and breaking down the silos that separate researchers and physicians
- Apr 02, 2022 10:00 AM
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- Future urbanization will be multifaceted, comprising both rapid development of mega-urban regions and steady growth of smaller cities and towns
- Mar 26, 2022 10:00 AM
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- Mar 19, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Why Land Sales Are Crucial for Local Government Coffers
- GDP-based performance assessments gave local officials an incentive to pursue growth by any means necessary, and income from the real estate sector came in handy
- Mar 05, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Tracing Rimbaud’s Footsteps Aboard a Chinese Railway in Ethiopia
- As the African landscape engulfs the European railways first envisioned by the adventurous French poet, how will the modern Chinese railway fare a hundred years from now?
- Feb 26, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: The Weaknesses of New Structural Economics Theory’s Explanation of China’s Growth
- The theory can’t help us figure out how China should make strategic and countermeasure arrangements to maintain an ideal growth rate, writes a former Central Party School economist
- Feb 19, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: How Beijing Can Regain Trust of Global Institutional Investors
- Words are not enough; investors need to see tangible policy implementation and effects
- Feb 12, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: How Mouth-Watering Foreign Delicacies Pepper China’s Classic Novels
- The introduction of new ingredients throughout the dynasties is illustrated on the page
- Jan 29, 2022 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Why Solving U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks’ VIE Issue Can Get Hong Kong Out of the Doldrums
- Making it clear how U.S. dollar funds can continue to invest in Chinese companies can help the city’s stock market emerge from its sluggish state
- Jan 22, 2022 17:46 PM
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- Primavera Capital founder Fred Hu and Nobel laureate Michael Spence offer their takes on China’s regulatory crackdown on big tech, its approach to wealth inequality and what cryptocurrencies are good for
- Jan 15, 2022 10:00 AM
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- Jan 08, 2022 10:00 AM
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- The restaurant guide’s latest China edition comes at an opportune moment to capture the country’s hungry consumers
- Jan 01, 2022 09:45 AM
- Weekend Long Read: How a Chinese Double Amputee Finally Summited Everest
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- Dec 25, 2021 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: The Stubborn Urban-Rural Divide of ‘Leftover’ Men and Women
- The contrasting gender imbalance in cities and the countryside follows the logic of economics. It will be difficult to change it by decree
- Dec 18, 2021 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Former Chinese Central Banker on Solving Challenges to International Trade
- Ex-PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan breaks down China’s views on international trade reform, covering areas such as cyberspace governance, intellectual property rights and protectionism
- Dec 11, 2021 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: Why China Needs Charm in a Multipolar World
- Former Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo argues it is in China’s interest to master the art of charm in its relations with other countries
- Dec 04, 2021 10:00 AM
- Weekend Long Read: How China Can Reform Itself to Join High-Standard Trade Pacts
- China should participate more actively and deeply in the ongoing restructuring of the global trading system, to pave the way for Chinese enterprises, former senior economic planning official says
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