Weekend Long Read: this week’s best in-depth long-form stories

Dec 24, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: How the Key to Cutting-Edge Chips Came Out of the Netherlands, and Not China
Dutch firm ASML’s three-decade quest to dominate the high-end lithography machine industry isn’t something Beijing can replicate anytime soon
Dec 17, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: There Is More to China’s Drop in Consumer Spending Than Covid-19
Consumption won’t rebound just because Covid policies have been relaxed. Multiple factors have upended household balance sheets, leaving them with reduced income and uncertain futures
Dec 10, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: Meet the Entrepreneurs Aiming to Fix Society’s Problems
The winners of the CSEIF’s For Good Awards, co-sponsored by Caixin, include business leaders providing affordable housing for low-income workers, health insurance to the underinsured and small business support for budding retailers in rural China
Dec 02, 2022 21:13 PM

Weekend Long Read: How Jiang Zemin Helped Coin ‘Socialistic Market Economy’
The former president’s efforts to make these three words the official objective of China’s reform and opening-up campaign paved the way for the country’s economic miracle
Nov 19, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: How China’s ESG Policy Is Progressing
The Chinese market still enjoys considerable room for growth, and top-down policies remain the most important force driving development of the sector
Nov 12, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: In China, Millions of Women Never Learned to Read. Can TikTok Help?
Decades of inequality have left millions of women illiterate. Now, many of them are turning to social media to get the education they had been denied
Nov 05, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: Can Anyone Replace China as the World’s Factory?
Economic and geopolitical factors threaten the country’s status in global manufacturing, but its would-be successors all have problems of their own
Oct 15, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: The Rural Hardship Behind the Mine Murders That Shocked China
Caixin reporter Wang Heyan shares her account of interviewing victims’ families and learning of the hardscrabble reality of rural life in China’s northwest
Oct 08, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: Does Studying Nobel Laureates Really Help China Win?
A look at efforts to win the obsessively sought-after prize reveals clear obstacles, including age, job titles, part-time gigs and a utilitarian view toward science
Oct 01, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: An Economist Explains Why Immigrants Won’t Take Chinese People’s Jobs Away
Along with working, incomers create employment opportunities, which can be a boon for up-and-coming communities, professor Li Jingkui explains
Sep 24, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: How ADB Engaged With AIIB
Takehiko Nakao, the former chief of the development bank, recalls the early days of its China-backed peer, how they worked together and the differences in their rationale
Sep 17, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: Why China Still Needs the Asian Development Bank
Although the country no longer lacks money, it can still make use of development support, mainly in the form of strengthening its institutional capacity
Sep 10, 2022 10:45 AM

Weekend Long Read: How China Can Chart a Path Forward in International Trade
Despite the trade war with the U.S., China has stood firm because of its partnership with ASEAN. The country must ensure openness with other countries
Sep 03, 2022 10:30 AM

Weekend Long Read: Why the Scientific Revolution Did Not Occur in China
For centuries, the country was a world leader in technology and its intellectuals were great at solving practical problems. However, they lacked interest in abstract theory
Aug 20, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: The Valiant, Tragic Tale of an American Missionary in Nanjing
Educator Minnie Vautrin stayed in the city during the infamous Japanese massacre in World War II, protecting thousands of women who took refuge at her college
Aug 13, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: What Challenges Await Singapore’s New Leadership
With a clear succession line in place, the country’s fourth-generation leaders led by Lawrence Wong are poised to tackle widening inequality at home and contentious geopolitics marked by China-U.S. tensions in its backyard
Aug 06, 2022 18:29 PM

Weekend Long Read: The Truth Behind Chinese Exports and Global Value Chains
Traditional economic theories blur the lines around the impact Chinese companies have on global trade
Jul 30, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: As China Reforms Its Financial System, Pragmatism Should Prevail
To fit the changing economy, the sector must do more to boost innovation and properly implement regulation, writes Huang Yiping
Jul 23, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: The Chinese Economy’s Uncertain Path to Recovery
How smoothly the economy can recover will hinge on how much the virus spreads and the evolution of the government’s Covid strategy
Jul 02, 2022 10:00 AM

Weekend Long Read: ‘Not a Fairy Tale’ ― A Chinese American Judge’s Journey From Hong Kong to the U.S.
After moving to the U.S. when he was a 6-year-old in 1966, Tony Leung, a child of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong, went to Yale and later became a federal judge in the state of Minnesota some 40 years later